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Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

• 7.1 Proportion of land area covered by forest
• 7.2 CO2 emissions, total, per capita and per $1 GDP (PPP)
• 7.3 Consumption of ozone-depleting substances
• 7.4 Proportion of fish stocks within safe biological limits
• 7.5 Proportion of total water resources used
• 7.6 Proportion of terrestrial and marine areas protected
• 7.7 Proportion of species threatened with extinction

Target 7c: Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

• 7.8 Proportion of population using an improved drinking water source
• 7.9 Proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility

Target 7d: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020

• 7.10 Proportion of urban population living in slums

Are we on target?
Carbon dioxide emissions reached 28 billion metric tons in 2005 and continued upward, resulting in increased atmospheric concentrations of CO2. Globally, emissions increased by 30 per cent from 1990 to 2005, with annual growth from 2000 to 2005 greater than in the preceding decade.

From 1990 to 2005, changes in emissions ranged from a 38 per cent decline in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States to an 82 per cent increase in South-Eastern Asia. Per capita emissions remain the highest in the developed regions, about 12 metric tons of CO2 per person per year, compared with about 3 metric tons in developing regions and 0.8 metric tons in sub-Saharan Africa. Emissions per unit of economic output fell by more than 20 per cent in the developed regions, while they increased by 35 per cent in South-Eastern Asia and by 25 per cent in North Africa.

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