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Authors:
Ana Jesus Lopez-Menendez
Rigoberto Perez
Keywords: MDG; growth; environment; poverty, EKC
Abstract:
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Green Growth means “Fostering economic growth and development, while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which our well-being relies”. Furthermore, since Sustainable Development provides an important context for Green Growth, The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) include the goal “Ensure environmental sustainability”, which considers four specific targets related to the development policies, the biodiversity loss, the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities and the improvement in the lives of slum dwellers. In this context, our paper aims to provide both analytical and empirical contributions for the monitoring of the MDG achievements. With this regard we firstly propose a Poverty- Growth-Environment triangle, and then we analyze the available statistical evidence in order to summarize the current progress and future perspectives towards the Environmental Millennium Development Goals.
Pages: 21 to 24
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013
Publication date: March 24, 2013
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4154
ISBN: 978-1-61208-261-5
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: from March 24, 2013 to March 29, 2013