Sarah Czunyi

This report provides a comprehensive overview of progress on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7, Ensuring Environmental Sustainability based on official indicators and data. The report covers all developing countries to which MDG-7 applies as well as developed countries, where MDG-7 targets were considered as reference points related to other global environmental commitments. In taking a detailed stock of progress at the global, regional and national levels, its purpose is to offer an authoritative perspective on movement toward or away from MDG-7 targets agreed by the international community in 2000 indicator by indicator. Relying on statistical evidence, the report pinpoints what goals and targets have been met, by when and where, and in what areas has progress been inadequate.

This report has been prepared in support of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) activities to help UN Member States in their work on concluding the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals and ensuring a suitable integration of the environment into the post-2015 development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.