which in turn depend on how people will produce and use energ

ising temperatures

biodiversity conservation

India has also earmarked funds to promote similar capacity building in developing countries

Biodiversity contribute to our material well-being. We obtained various productive materials from biodiversity e.g. agricultural materials or food, medicine, industrial raw materials etc.

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Genetic diversity

medicinal plants

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supply chain

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Goal 11 of making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainabl

By 2050, the world’s urban population is expected to nearly double, making urbanization one of the twenty-first century’s most transformative trends.

he New Urban Agenda incorporates a new recognition of the correlation between good urbanization and developmen

ave understood thatenvironmental conservation and capital accumulation are contradictory goa

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I doubt that I would feelmyself better off if I had found the world exactly as the Iroquois left it. It is notclear that one would really want to do that

if poverty is reduced, environmental degradation will be reduced as well

A stable policy regime enablesand encourages business and industry to operate responsibly and efficiently and toimplement longer-term policies.

Business and industry, including transnational corporations, play a crucial role inthe social and economic development of a country

Promoting sustainabledevelopment through trade liberalization

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which results in less packaging)

Currently, world cities generate about 1.3 billion tonnes of solid waste per year.

The largest number will live in China and India. Residential water and energy use, car ownership, personal travel, food — notably meat and dairy — consumption,

ootprint analysis — which compares humanity’s ecological impacts to the amount

Production systems

use in developing countries increased by 40

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little if any progress has been made in sub-Saharan Africa

orphan crops

ncreasing yields per hectare

hydrogen

The socio-economic impacts of gaining access to modern energy can be transformative in many respects for communities and enterprises

Public financing is needed to shape and guide the energy transition’s trajectory, ensuring positive impacts across key socio-economic indicators

Renewables-based energy systems will instigate profound changes that will reverberate across economies and societies.

energy poverty

Water and sanitation also impact school attendance as well as livelihoods. If a person is sick, they cannot attend school or work and earn income. If the ill person is a young child or an older person, there is a high likelihood that someone else also misses school or forgoes income in order to provide the necessary car

human-made disasters

5% of the familyincome is spent on smoking,

negative impact of their related activities

Particularly disturbing is the recentdynamics of world hunger. During thefirst half of the 1990s the number ofundernourished people decreased by 37 million, but over the next 5 years itincreased by more than 18 million. Thenumbers of undernourished have fallenin East Asia and Pacific, but remain highin South Asia and continue to rise inSub-Saharan Africa and in the MiddleEast and North Africa. In India, after adecline of 20 million between1990—1992 and 1995—1997, the num-ber of undernourished climbed by 19million over the following four years.And in China, where the number ofundernourished people was reduced by58 million over the 1990s, progress isgradually slowing. In countries withtransition economies the second half ofthe 1990s brought another increase inthe number of undernourished people,from 25 million to 34 million. BEYOND ECONOMIC GROWTH381Undernourishment means consuming too little food to maintain a normal level of activity. The Food a

Cigarette smoke does more damage tohuman health than all air pollutantscombined. S

for example, the experience ofsocialist countries, where deliberatelylow inequality (with no private profitsand minimal differences in wages andsalaries) deprived people of the incen-

slow human development

Kenya has a population of 47.5 million and about 60 per cent of its urban popu-lation live in informal settlements, mostly in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu

About three-quarters of the extreme poor live in rural settings,

. However, progress was uneven