Ensuring environmental sustainability in the light of the millennium development goals

الملخص EN

In September 2000, world leaders gathered in the millennium summit to resolve the global issue which is extreme poverty.

This summit ended with the adoption of the common document “the millennium declaration”, which contains a statement of values, principles, and objectives for the international 21 Century Agenda.

This declaration translated into eight global goals known as “the Millennium Development Goals”.

The goal seven, entitled “Ensure Environmental Sustainability”, it involves four main targets turning around integrating the principles of sustainable development in countries policies, reducing biodiversity loss, providing safe drinking water sources and improving slum dwellers’ lives.

As well as the targets are determined by specific indicators in order to evaluate the achievements by the deadline of 2015.

Fifteen years later, there were several achievements in all the MDGs and the MDG7, in which many countries and Algeria succeeded to reach the MDG7 targets particularly in providing safe drinking water and protecting forests.

Besides these achievements, there were various challenges that hinder the accomplishment of the other targets; mostly the big gap between the poor and the rich people and climate change.

Thus, world countries are required to work together in order to cope with these challenges and to fulfill the global sustainable development of post-2015.