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MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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INTRODUCTION

In addition to understanding and improving the basic needs and rights of human beings,all nations and their people must be aware of the fate of the planet Earth. For some timenow, the planet has deteriorated to the point of species becoming extinct everyday. Deadzones exist within our oceans, very few rain forests remain, and basic habitats for animalshave all but disappeared. Pollution and smog are dangerous problems to mankind, toxiccarcinogens are in the water supply, the air and the atmosphere consequently,

contaminating the fresh foods we eat everyday.

And while richer countries believe that they are coping with these issues and taking stepsto reverse the trends of destruction, poorer countries are impacted more negatively causing them even more suffering and pain. As industrialized waste is dumped into areasin which the citizens have no control or they permit the practice because they need themoney, poverty, disease and illness continue to permeate their lives. For poorer nations,reversing the damage is greater since basic necessities are required.

But in reality, preserving the environment and forcing countries to recognize thedestruction will actually help to improve the condition of so many lives. In fact, the firstsix goals would be useless if the Earth is so damaged that people cannot live here. So theseventh goal of the MDGs has four targets upon which to work.

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TARGETS

Target 7A: Integrate the principles of sustainabledevelopment into country policies and programs;reverse loss of environmental resources

Target 7B: Reduce biodiversity lossTarget 7C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of thepopulation without sustainable access to safe drinking

water and basic sanitation (for more information see

the entry on water supply)Target 7D: By 2020, to have achieved a significantimprovement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers.

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Target 7A:

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principlesof sustainabledevelopme

nt intocountry policiesand

programs;

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Target 7B: Reduce biodiversity

Proportion of land area covered by forest

CO2 emissions , total, per capita and per $1 GDP (PPP)

Consumption of ozone-depleting substances

- Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since thelate 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume

Country Annual CO2 emissions (inthousands of metric tons)

GDP (current, inbillions of US dollars)

Philippines 68,328 117.57

United States 5,752,289 13,178.35

Country Year Value

Philippines 2010 25.7

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Continuation

SOME OF THE SUBSTANCES that CAUSES OZONE DEPLETION:

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

presence of chlorine-containing source gases

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Extinction of ANIMALS:

-The world has missed the 2010 target to slowthe decline in biodiversity. Nearly 17,000 species of plants and animals are currently at risk of extinction,

and the number of species threatened by extinction is

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Target 7C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population withoutsustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation (for

more information see the entry on water supply)

The world will meet or even exceed the drinking water target by 2015 if currenttrends continue. By that time, an estimated 86 per cent of the population indeveloping regions will have gained access to improved sources of drinking

water, up from 71 per cent in 1990. Four regions Northern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Asia and South-Eastern Asia have

already met the target. Even though progress was made primarily in rural areas,those areas still remain at a disadvantage. Globally, eight out of 10 people whoare without access to an improved drinking water source live in rural areas.

Quick Facts

Some 1.7 billion people have gained access to safe drinking water since 1990. Yet 884

million people worldwide still do not .

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Target 7D: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in thelives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers

The target of improving the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers has already beenachieved twice-over. In the last ten years, more than 200 million slum dwellers havegained access to improved water, sanitation or durable and less crowded housing, greatly enhancing their prospects of escaping poverty, disease and illiteracy. These improvements,however, are failing to keep pace with the growing ranks of the urban poor. Even thoughthe share of the urban population living in slums has declined from 39 per cent to 33 per

cent over the last ten years, the absolute number of slum dwellers in the developing worldis growing and will continue to increase in the near future. The number of urban residentsliving in slum conditions in the developing world is now estimated at some 828 million,compared to 657 million in 1990 and 767 million in 2000. The target set in the year 2000

was set too low, based on too small an estimated number of people living in sub-standardconditions. For governments to set meaningful country-specific goals, make seriouscommitments and be held accountable for continued progress, the target will requireredefinition, such as, Halve the proportion of slum dwellers by 2020.

QUICK FACTS!!

Slum improvements are failing to keep pace with the growing number of urban poor.The absolute number of Slum dwellers keeps rising, with some 828 million people living inslums today, even though the share f the urban population living in slums is declining.

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OVERVIEW

Policies addressing increased access to global scarcities, including food, water, and energy, need totake environmental changes into account. This could both help in achieving the MDGs and in making thoseachievements more sustainable.

Of the estimated 10.5 million child deaths annually, the vast majority are from preventable andtreatable diseases and conditions, including low dietary energy consumption (underweight), unsafe drinking

water and the lack of basic sanitation (diarrhea), and indoor air pollution related to solid fuel use for cooking

and heating (pneumonia).Rising demand for food, water, and modern energy will put pressure on scarce natural resources.

This will increase the prices of (especially) food and energy. And it will hurt poor people in importingcountries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia whose governments are unable to guarantee affordable prices

when global prices increase.

Furthermore, provision of food, water, and energy becomes more difficult when natural resources

are not properly managed or degrade as a result of global environmental change.For example, climate change induces changes in rainfall and temperature patterns, potentially

increasing the likelihood of short-term crop failures and long-term production declines as well asdeterioration in water quality. The most vulnerable are poor and food-insecure countries at lower latitudesthat largely depend on rainfed farmingin Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Many such pressures are slow moving and cannot easily be stopped because of major inertia,

including the pressures of fertility transition and greenhouse gas accumulation. They become apparent only inthe long term, after 2015 or even after 2030, trapping people in their poverty and reversing progress.