United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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Human development reports

At the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000 world leaders placed development at the heart of the global agenda by adopting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which set clear targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women by 2015. For each Goal a set of Targets and Indicators have been defined and are used to track the progress in meeting the Goals. One of the indicators is proportion of land area covered by forest, for which FAO provides the data through its Global Forest Resources Assessment.

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Forest-related reporting under UNDP and the Millennium Project

UNDP member countries were asked to report on the implementation of the Millennium Project towards the achievements of the MDGs. The Goal 7 Ensuring environmental sustainability has the following objectives:
  • Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
  • By 2015, reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water.
  • By 2020 achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.

Goal 7 also deals with forest-related issues, within the following targets and indicators:


Target 9: integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources Indicator 25 Proportion of land area covered by forest
Indicator 26 Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface area
Indicator 27 Energy use (metric ton oil equivalent) per $1 GDP (PPP)
Indicator 28 Carbon dioxide emissions (per capita) and consumption of ozone-depleting CFCs (ODP tons)
Indicator 29 Proportion of population using solid fuelsTarget 10: halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water Indicator 30 Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and ruralThe national reports are available on UNDP country reports page.


Last updated: april 2006