C. Environmental sustainability

Ensuring environmental sustainability

Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability

Achieving sustainable development and ensuring environmental sustainability

And the EU has been a global leader on environmental sustainability.

Ensure environmental sustainability (MDG 7)

There cannot be sustainable development without environmental sustainability.

C. Implementing sustainability in tourism through multilateral environmental agreements

Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability (in relation to water, sanitation and human settlements)

Background papers for the ministerial level consultations on energy and environment for development, chemicals management as well as tourism and the environment

Climate change and environmental sustainability have to be taken as seriously as they deserve.

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

At the country level, national strategies must include investments in improved environmental management and make the structural changes required for environmental sustainability.

In Bhutan, we have made serious efforts to integrate the principles and practices of environmental sustainability into our development policies and programmes.

Further efforts should be made to provide the economic rationale for investment in environmental sustainability.

In light of rural women's lead role in food production, Governments should provide greater support for access to microfinance, seed supplies and technologies to women.

Environmental sustainability should be integrated in the regional cooperation strategies aimed at achieving the MDGs.

The Committee should also give the issue of environmental sustainability the attention it deserved.

The strong linkages between forests and ensuring environmental sustainability were highlighted in the Millennium Declaration.

International financial institutions and development cooperation agencies should integrate principles of environmental sustainability into their policies and programmes.

This service module addresses the issue of environmental sustainability in accordance with MDG No. 7.

Environmental sustainability was a high priority objective of the Government of Kazakhstan.

Since the early 1990s, a series of legal and institutional reforms have been set in motion to improve environmental sustainability.

Governments, donors and multilateral institutions should mainstream environmental sustainability into poverty reduction strategies and frameworks.

It is the repository of cutting edge sustainable technologies, pioneering research and development, world class management, and leadership in environmental sustainability.

Investment in environmental and natural resource sustainability has been proved to yield very high returns in the long term.

The scientific and financial base of UNEP should be strengthened to meet the challenge of integrating environmental sustainability into development policies.

The Swedish Parliament adopted environmental quality objectives relating to 15 areas, with a view to establishing an ecologically sustainable country over the long term.

The new challenge currently facing the world was to go beyond short term environmental performance and to strive for environmental sustainability.

As the report of the Millennium Project task force on environmental sustainability explains, environmental sustainability means meeting current human needs without undermining the environment's capacity to provide for these needs over the long term.

Doing so would add to the global recovery, improve long term environmental sustainability, and accelerate economic development.

Criticism The term Green transport is often used as a greenwash marketing technique for products which are not proven to make a positive contribution to environmental sustainability.

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.

Yet the two countries share similar national development goals increasing their citizens prosperity, narrowing social inequities, and addressing environmental sustainability.

Scale and context Sustainability is studied and managed over many scales (levels or frames of reference) of time and space and in many contexts of environmental, social and economic organization.

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

Sri Lanka accorded high priority to the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Millennium Development Goals, including target 7 on environmental sustainability.

The implementation of sustainability in tourism can also be supported through the effective implementation of multilateral environmental agreements, which aim to tackle environmental issues, and activities that could have transboundary environmental effects.

Environmental vulnerability is accelerated when ecological sustainability is not maintained, livelihood opportunities are threatened possibly leading to natural disasters, emigration or increasing the likelihood of conflicts over declining resources.

Likewise, regional and subregional health and environment policies in a transboundary context play an important role in preventing health diseases and in safeguarding growth with environmental sustainability.

The severely constrained fiscal space in which many developing countries operate can also prevent the integration of environmental sustainability considerations into such plans and strategies.

Describing some of Singapore's experiences in overcoming environmental sustainability challenges, he remarked that, not so long ago, his country had suffered from frequent floods and pollution.

The vulnerability of slum dwellers should be reduced through the promotion of land use planning policies aimed at environmental sustainability and risk reduction.

As noted in paragraph 5 above, the proportion of land area covered by forests is one of the indicators associated with the Millennium Development Goal on environmental sustainability.

Deriving a large fraction of the energy from nuclear power would be of immense benefit in the context of environmental and sustainability concerns for India as well as for the rest of the world.