Achieving sustainable development and ensuring environmental sustainability

The United States supported incorporating environmental concerns into development work.

There cannot be sustainable development without environmental sustainability.

Integrating environmental activities at the operational level in the broader sustainable development framework

The link between environmental sustainability, economic growth and social development was a foundation for Singapore's sustainable development.

Participants emphasized that indigenous peoples play an important role in development and environmental preservation.

The UNIDO cleaner production programme focuses on reconciling industrial development and environmental concerns.

Two CGE members presented the Integrated Environmental Strategies (IES) programme of the United States Agency for International Development.

Automobile dependent countries like America need smart solutions to ensure environmentally sustainable development.

Target 9 Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources

For Portugal, environmental concerns are a clear priority addressing them must promote, not detract from, development.

Sustainable disaster risk reduction needs to become an integral component of environmental, economic and social development.

One of the major development goals is to ensure environmental sustainability, particularly by integrating the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes, so as to reverse the loss of environmental resources.

Of particular concern is the environmental cost of China s development model, and the many internal and social problems that China has to tackle.

The services related to POPs will focus on building institutional capacities for promoting the integration of environmental considerations into industrial development policies and strategies, thus mainstreaming the environmental agenda to the industrial development process.

We will need new technologies, behaviors, and ethics, supported by solid evidence, to reconcile further economic development with environmental sustainability.

Governments and international organizations should strengthen or establish mechanisms at the national, regional and international levels to assess the impact of development and environmental policies on women.

20. We believe that promoting environmental sustainability, within the framework of sustainable development, is crucial for Asia and the Pacific region.

The lack of appropriate resources and know how related to environmental assessment leads to sub optimal decision making based on incomplete or inconsistent information about the state of the environmental resources and the impact of environmental policy on development.

This could be done through diversifying production and changing the focus to non agricultural sectors so as to benefit economic development and environmental sustainability.

(d) Promoting policy dialogues that integrate environmental considerations into overall economic and social development plans, as well as in specific sectors such as energy and water resources

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Environmental activities

Environmental concerns

11.20 The Division of Environmental Conventions is responsible for the implementation of this subprogramme.

Regional Cooperation and Representation

Environmental accounting

Sustainable development offers a new concept for the world economy in the twenty first century. Rather than focusing solely on income, sustainable development encourages cities, countries, and the world to focus simultaneously on three goals economic prosperity, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability.

Rather than focusing solely on income, sustainable development encourages cities, countries, and the world to focus simultaneously on three goals economic prosperity, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability.

While there is no goal on energy, it is central to meeting the other MDGs, especially those concerning poverty and hunger, universal education, and environmental sustainability.

To improve and accomplish the environmental legislation, by increasing the fiscalization, control and monitoring of the environment.

These include, among other things, national cleaner technologies strategies, environmental management accounting, integrated water resources management, energy for sustainable development and social impacts of mining

In the forest sector, decentralization should be seen as a means to accomplish the broad objectives of poverty alleviation, sustainable economic development, and protection of local and global environmental values.

Small island developing States are also vulnerable to exogenous environmental and economic events, such as the dramatic increase in fuel prices, which impede their opportunities for development.

Sovereign Environmental Risk

Maged George, Minster of State for Environmental Affairs.

C. Environmental sustainability

(b) Environmental Health

Environmental and ecological aspects

International environmental governance

Environmental treaties

Emphasizing that water is critical for sustainable development, including environmental integrity and the eradication of poverty and hunger, and is indispensable for human health and well being,

Implications of the implementation of project activities under the clean development mechanism, referred to in decision 12 CP.10, for the achievement of objectives of other environmental conventions and protocols

Officials in both Hong Kong and Guangdong are powerless to clean up their environmental problems on their own. In fact, development plans in China may be heading in the opposite direction.

2. Notes the publication of the fourth Global Environment Outlook Environment for Development by the United Nations Environment Programme United Nations publication, Sales No. E.07.III.D.19.