Ensure Environmental Ensure Environmental SustainabilitySustainability

AimsAims

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

Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of lossa significant reduction in the rate of loss

Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitationsafe drinking water and basic sanitation

Achieve, by 2020, a significant improvement Achieve, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellersdwellers

ResultResult

Objetives only partially achieved:Objetives only partially achieved:

-More people gained access to clean drinking water

-There are still huge number of people not having access to water

-Sanitation is a serious matter for billion people.

-We continue destroying natural resources.

What can we do?What can we do?

Develop environmental friendly attitudes to Develop environmental friendly attitudes to reduce the destruction of resources.reduce the destruction of resources.

More rational use of products and More rational use of products and recycling.recycling.

Take part in campaigns denouncing the Take part in campaigns denouncing the problems experienced in other regions of problems experienced in other regions of the world: we could have been born there.the world: we could have been born there.