Environmental Sustainability
In 1990, the UN adopted eight Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) to be acheived by the year 2015. The UN's stand is that if we, as a global community, can reach these 8 goals by the year 2015, the world will be better off.
Target 1: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
Target 2: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss.
Target 3: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
Target 4: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
You can help raise awareness of this MDG by completing the following actions:
Resources
Below you will find places where you can learn more about the important work people across the globe are doing (and that you can do) in order to help achieve the Millenium Development Goal: Environmental Sustainability.
The United Nation's Cyber Schoolbus is a perfect site for all ages to get a grasp of how kids around the world can help raise awareness of the Millenium Development Goals. Play games, check out resources, and dig into data comparing how well each country is meeting the MDGs.
The interactive Atlas of the Millenium Development Goals is a great resource for visualizing just how unbalanced the world really is. This is a great place for older students to explore on their own the inequality that exists in the world, or for teachers of younger students to help compare countries with one another.
Taking IT Global is one of the sites that the Take Action! project is based upon. Taking IT Global has games, online galleries filled with student art, resources for educators, and ways to help empower citizens to act towards achieveing the Millenium Development Goals.