2010 Summit on the Millennium Development Goals
The 2010 MDG Summit concluded with the adoption of a global action plan -- Keeping the Promise: United to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals -- and the announcement of a number of initiatives against poverty, hunger and disease. In a major push to accelerate progress on women’s and children’s health, a number of Heads of State and Government from developed and developing countries, along with the private sector, foundations, international organizations, civil society and research organizations, pledged over $40 billion in resources over the next five years.
2013: Mdg Acceleration and Beyond 2015
On 25 September 2013, the President of the UN General Assemblyhosted a special event to follow up on efforts made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). At the Special Event towards achieving the MDGs, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented to Member States his report entitled “A Life of Dignity for All”. In the outcome document adopted by Member States, world leaders renewed their commitment to meet the MDG’s targets and agreed to hold a high-level Summit in September 2015 to adopt a new set of Goals building on the achievements of the MDGs. On 23 September 2013, the Secretary-General hosted a high-level forum to catalyze and accelerate further action to achieve the MDGs and enrich the deliberations of the General Assembly and beyond. The forum focused on concrete examples of scaling up success and identifying further opportunities. Additional commitments to boost MDG achievement were announced, bringing the total to more than $2.5 billion.
Goal 7: ensure environmental sustainability
2013 Fact Sheet Target 7.A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
Forests are a safety net for the poor, but they continue to disappear at an alarming rate.
Of all developing regions, South America and Africa saw the largest net losses of forest areas between 2000 and 2010.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased by more than 46 per cent since 1990.
In the 25 years since the adoption of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, there has been a reduction of over 98 per cent in the consumption of ozone-depleting substances.
At Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, world leaders approved an agreement entitled “The Future We Want,” and more than $513 billion was pledged towards sustainable development initiatives.
Target 7.B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
More areas of the earth’s surface are protected. Since 1990, protected areas have increased in number by 58 per cent.
Growth in protected areas varies across countries and territories and not all protected areas cover key biodiversity sites.
By 2010, protected areas covered 12.7 per cent of the world’s land area but only 1.6 per cent of total ocean area.
Target 7.C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
The world has met the target of halving the proportion of people without access to improved sources of water, five years ahead of schedule.
Between 1990 and 2010, more than two billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources.
The proportion of people using an improved water source rose from 76 per cent in 1990 to 89 per cent in 2010.
Over 40 per cent of all people without improved drinking water live in sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2011, 768 million people remained without access to an improved source of drinking water.
Over 240,000 people a day gained access to improved sanitation facilities from 1990 to 2011.
Despite progress, 2.5 billion in developing countries still lack access to improved sanitation facilities.