Un Millennium Project

UN Millennium Development Library: Environment and Human Well-being (eBook, PDF)

A Practical Strategy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all.

The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. As an independent advisory body directed by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, the UN Millennium Project submitted its recommendations to the UN Secretary General in January 2005.

The core of the UN Millennium Project's work has been carried out by 10 thematic Task Forces comprising more than 250 experts from around the world, including scientists, development practitioners, parliamentarians, policymakers, and representatives from civil society, UN agencies, the World Bank, the IMF, and the private sector.

This report lays out the recommendations of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Environmental Sustainability. It identifies key environmental challenges, such as degradation of land, watersheds and marine fisheries, deforestation, pollution, and climate change. The Task Force proposes specific interventions and policy changes required to improve environmental management at the country, regional and international level. These bold yet practical approaches will help countries make progress towards environmental sustainability by 2015.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136550560
• Artikelnr.: 38269616

Autorenporträt

UN Millennium Project

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Task force members
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Millennium Development Goals
Ten key recommendations
Executive summary
Part 1 The problem
1 Call for operationalizing environmental sustainability Environment and human well
being
Links to other Millennium Development Goals
Other links
2 Driving environmental change
Direct drivers of environmental change
Indirect drivers of environmental change
Controlling the drivers of environmental change
Key elements of environmental change
Regional diagnosis of environmental conditions
3 Why has environmental sustainability been elusive? Lack of clear operational objectives
Insufficient direct investment in environmental management
Poor integration into sector policies
Inadequate institutional capacity, misalignment of goals, and poor governance
Widespread market failures and distortions
Underinvestment in science and technology
Difficulty of regional and international cooperation
Limited public awareness
Part 2 The solution
4 Investing in environmental management
Element 1: agricultural production systems
Element 2: forests
Element 3: freshwater resources and ecosystems
Element 4: fisheries and marine ecosystems
Element 5: air and water pollution
Element 6: global climate change
5 Structural changes for environmental sustainability
Strengthening institutions and governance
Correcting market failures and distortions
Improving access to and use of knowledge
Mobilizing science and technology for sustainable development
6 Implementing strategies for environmental sustainability
National implementation mechanisms
Regional implementation mechanisms
Global implementation mechanisms
Notes
References