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Executive summary
Our lives on this planet depend on natures provision of stability and resources.
Current rates of human-engendered environmental destruction threaten those
resources and leave death and misery in their wake. But we can avoid this. To
do so, we must act in concert and with a sense of urgency to make the structural
and policy changes needed to maintain ecosystems and their services, control
water and air pollution, and reverse the trends leading to global warming. Thismust be done if we are to achieve the level of environmental sustainability nec-
essary to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals addressing poverty,
illiteracy, hunger, discrimination against women, unsafe drinking water, and
environmental degradation.
Environmental sustainability is essential to achieving all other Millen-
nium Development Goals.
Byenvironmental sustainabilitywe mean meeting current human needs with-out undermining the capacity of the environment to provide for those needs
over the long term. Achieving environmental sustainability requires carefully
balancing human development activities while maintaining a stable environ-
ment that predictably and regularly provides resources such as freshwater,
food, clean air, wood, fisheries, and productive soils and that protects people
from floods, droughts, pest infestations, and disease. Therefore, environmental
sustainability is necessarily a fundamental objective in the pursuit of the seven
other Millennium Development Goals. As stated in the UN Millennium Dec-
laration, we must spare no effort to free all of humanity, and above all ourchildren and grandchildren, from the threat of living on a planet irredeemably
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