Policy: Sustainable development goals for people and planet.
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References
A safe operating space for humanity
The Millennium Development Goals Report
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Frequently Asked Questions (15)
Q2. What are the dangers that could threaten development?
Water shortages, extreme weather, deteriorating conditions for food production, ecosystem loss, ocean acidification and sea-level rise are real dangers that could threaten development and trigger humanitarian crises across the globe.
Q3. What are the driving principles of sustainable development?
The driving principles remain: reducing poverty and hunger, improving health and well-being and creating sustainable production and consumption patterns.
Q4. What is the goal of the MDGs?
Achieve universal access to clean water and basic sanitation, and ensure efficient allocation through integrated waterresource management.
Q5. What is the MDGs for food security?
End hunger and achieve long-term food security — including better nutrition — through sustainable systems of production, distribution and consumption.
Q6. What is the role of the SDGs in the world?
Research initiatives such as Future Earth, a ten-year programme coordinated by the International Council for Science5, are needed to refine targets and provide sustainable solutions for human well-being.
Q7. What is the definition of sustainable development?
GOALS riving lives and livelihoodsSustainable food security Sustainable water securityUniversal clean energy Healthy and productive ecosystems Governance for sustainable societiesNEW DEFINITION Sustainable development in theAnthropocene: “Development that meets the needs of the present whilesafeguarding Earth’s life-support system, on which the welfare of currentand future generations depends.
Q8. What are the main objectives of the MDGs?
National monitoring, reporting and verification systems must be established for sustainabledevelopment targets; and open access to information and decision-making processes should be secured at all levels.
Q9. What is the first step for policy-makers to embrace?
But the first step is for policy-makers to embrace a unified environmental and social framework for the SDGs, so that today’s advances in development are not lost as ourplanet ceases to function for the benefit of a global population.
Q10. What should be included in the MDGs?
It should include targets on clean air that build on World Health Organization guidelines for pollutants such as black carbon6; reductions in emissions of stratospheric ozone-depleting substances in line with projections from the Montreal Protocol; critical loads for man-made chemical compounds and toxic materials; and sustainable practices for extraction, use and recycling of scarce minerals and metals and other natural resources.●●
Q11. What should be done to address the other five MDGs?
Subsidies on fossil fuels and policies that support unsustainable agricultural and fisheries practices should be eliminated by 2020; product prices should incorporate social and environmental impacts.
Q12. What are the planetary boundaries that are unsafe for human development?
Building on decades of research, a 2009 analysis defined planetary boundaries which would be unsafe to transgress for nine Earth-system processes3: climate change; rate of biodiversity loss (terrestrial and marine); interference with the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles; stratospheric ozone depletion; ocean acidification; global freshwater use; change in land use; chemical pollution; and atmospheric aerosol loading.
Q13. What are the main principles of sustainable development?
To set appropriate goals and targets, environmental conditions have to be identified that enable prosperous human development and set tolerable ranges for the biosphere to remain in that state.
Q14. What are the gaps and uncertainties in their knowledge of global environmental risks?
There are many gaps and uncertainties in their knowledge of global environ-mental risks and how to enable societies to become resource-efficient, sustainable and wealthy.
Q15. What would be the main objectives of the MDGs?
This would build on MDG partnerships and incorporate environmental and social targets into global trade, investment and finance4.