GOAL 7:
ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
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.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased by more than 50 per cent since 1990.
In the 26 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.
Afforestation and the natural expansion of forests have reduced the net loss of forest from an average of 8.3 million hectares annually in the 1990s to an average of 5.2 million hectares annually between 2000 and 2010.
Target 7.B:
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
Protected ecosystems covered 14 per cent of land and coastal marine areas worldwide by 2012.