Ensuring environmental sustainability

C. Environmental sustainability

Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability

Ensure environmental sustainability (MDG 7)

Achieving sustainable development and ensuring environmental sustainability

There cannot be sustainable development without environmental sustainability.

C. Implementing sustainability in tourism through multilateral environmental agreements

Goal 7 Environment Sustainability Promoting environmental sustainability through education and good management of natural resources (including soil and water).

Achieving the target of environmental sustainability is also a formidable challenge.

UNIDO sought to pursue industrialization based on economic, social and environmental sustainability.

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

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.

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

Increasing agricultural productivity was considered essential to achieving poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Promotion of and support for programmes and policies designed to ensure environmental sustainability and protection

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

And the values we bring can be about environmental issues, about sustainability, about lower power consumption.

ISAR noted that an enterprise's environmental performance could affect its financial health and hence its 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.

2 Millennium Project task force on environmental sustainability, Environment and human well being a practical strategy (2005).

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

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

Reaching sustainability requires striking a balance between the social, economic and environmental aspirations of current and future generations.

Participants stressed the importance of environmental sustainability for the realization of the Millennium Development Goals, recognized the human right to live in a healthy environment and pointed out that the draft outcome document fell short of acknowledging the importance of environmental sustainability, including consumption and production patterns.

These commitments were codified into Millennium Development Goal 7, which calls on the international community to ensure environmental sustainability.

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

A set of selected indicators will be designed and implemented to monitor current environmental sustainability trends in the region.

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

These eight goals range from eradicating extreme poverty, providing universal primary education, and reducing health threats, to ensuring environmental sustainability.

Europe and Asia must jointly commit to an agenda underscoring global resources and sustainability. Environmental, climate, and energy issues concern everyone.

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

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

It is increasingly recognized that tourism and environmental impacts should be addressed not in isolation, but within the wider context of sustainable development, paying equal attention to environmental, social and economic 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.

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

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

Water is perhaps the most fundamental of all environmental resources and key to the viability and long term sustainability of the world's ecosystems.