Environmental Sustainability

Andriy Vlashyn, Francy Shumrick, Danielle Chen, Jonathan Hicks, Mohammed Moumen

Targets

●Principles of sustainable development must be integrated into country policies and programs

Aim to reverse the loss of environmental resources

●Reduce biodiversity loss

●Halve the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

●Achieve a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

China

Lack of:

Clean air and water

Healthy food

Safe shelter

Biodiversity

Causes

Increased industrial output

Results in severe air and water pollution

Deforestation and Desertification

Contributes to the loss of biodiversity

Who’s impacted?

EveryoneForests have been destroyed

Lost of habitat for animalsLess trees Chemicals are released in great

amounts to the air, water, and greenlands

Who’s REALLY impacted?

Minorities

55 Chinese minority groups

Achang, Baj, Daur, and many more

Live in areas that are rich in natural resources:

Xinjiang

Ningxia

Inner Mangolia

Tend to be very poor

Have no power to fight for their rights

So far The United Nations has...

Made use of financial incentives

Protected, restored, and promoted various ecosystems

Made access to clean water, a human right that must be met

5 years ahead of schedule

Invested in the improvement of slums

Progress in China

Key focuses in China

Water recycling and reutilization

Clean technologies

Renewable energies

From 2000-2010 number of wastewater plants in China nearly quadrupled

Chinese government plans to open up advanced technology that will reduce energy input needed to filter pollutants out of water

As of 2010, around $33 (in US dollars) was used for the construction of a water infrastructure that now benefits 14.6 million people

The Chinese government has also committed to producing 16% of its primary energy from renewable resources by 2020

Providing financial incentives to those who advance in wind and solar power

China was the largest producer of Solar PVs in the world and produced 45% of the global solar power in 2009.

2014 figures show a decline in coal consumption for the first time in 15 years, and China is now the world’s largest investor in renewable energy.

Progress in China cont.

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