For my assigned blog #7 we had to talk about the millennium goals. The Millennium goal that i got assigned was goal #7 to ensure environmental sustainability. This goal is wanting to make the environment a lot better in parts of the world for people and animals.
In this goal there are 4 targets. The 1st target is to integrate the principles of sustainability development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources. This target is about regrowing forests in parts of the world. Like in Africa and South America they have the largest losses of forest area. At a conference world leaders approved "The future we want" agreement. That is an agreement to make the world a better, greener place.
The 2nd target is reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss. They are saying they want to protect areas that animals live in, like their habitats to protect the animals that live in it. Since 1990 there has been a lot more areas protected now, it has increased by 58 percent. The only thing is that not all the protected areas protect the main animal habitats. It was by 2010 there are 12.7 percent of land is now protected, plus 1.6 percent of total ocean area too.
3rd target is to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. this is saying they want to help people get safe drinking water, they want to halve the number of people in the world with not safe drinking water. They have done this before their 2015 deadline. they did it 5 years ahead of schedule without the improved sources of water. More than 2 billion people now have safe drinking water sources, but 783 million people still don't have improved sources of safe drinking water.
The last target is to achieve, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers. In this goal they are saying they are wanting to help people who are living in poor, dirty, and not good conditions live better lives. They met this target before the 2020 deadline. The number of people living in poor conditions decreased by 39 percent in the year 2000.
I think that this is a great goal to have because our world definitely does need to be improved. Your always hearing about forest fires, countries that have had a lot of people died from poor drinking water, you always see people living in conditions that people shouldn't have to live in, plus there are animals that are going extinct so we do need protected areas in the world for the animals.
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Well done!