United Nations
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2014)
Reporting Period: 2014
Environmental Metrics
Total Carbon Emissions:32.2 billion metric tons of CO2 in 2011
ESG Focus Areas
- Poverty
- Hunger
- Education
- Gender Equality
- Child Mortality
- Maternal Health
- Disease
- Environmental Sustainability
- Global Partnership
Environmental Achievements
- Significant reduction in the rate of forest loss
- Almost complete elimination of ozone-depleting substances
- Increase in terrestrial and coastal marine areas under protection
Social Achievements
- Global poverty rate halved five years ahead of schedule
- 90% of children in developing regions now enjoy primary education
- Remarkable gains in fight against malaria and tuberculosis
- Child mortality rate nearly halved
- Substantial increase in access to improved drinking water and sanitation
- Increased political participation of women
Governance Achievements
- Improved data collection and reporting on MDGs
- Strengthened statistical systems at national and international levels
- Increased coordination within countries on MDG monitoring
Climate Goals & Targets
Short-term Goals:
- Meet all MDG targets by 2015
Environmental Challenges
- Uneven progress in poverty reduction across regions
- High rates of poverty in small, fragile, and conflict-affected countries
- Slowdown in productivity growth
- High rates of hunger in sub-Saharan Africa
- High rates of child undernutrition
- High maternal mortality rates
- High rates of HIV infection
- High rates of malaria and tuberculosis
- Continued loss of environmental resources
- High rates of slum dwelling
- Shifting aid away from poorest countries
- Slowdown in trade liberalization
- Data gaps and quality issues
Mitigation Strategies
- Increased official development assistance
- Improved data collection and monitoring systems
- Targeted interventions to address poverty, hunger, and disease
- Expansion of access to education and healthcare
- Increased investment in maternal and child health
- Expansion of access to antiretroviral therapy
- Expansion of malaria interventions
- Measures to address deforestation and promote sustainable forest management
- Efforts to improve sanitation and access to clean water
- Efforts to improve the lives of slum dwellers
- Debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries
- Promotion of new technologies, especially information and communications technology