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Target 11: Have achieved, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million
slum dwellers.
IPS Inter Press Service, 2011
Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programme
and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
kshampongo, 2007
Goal
Target
Indicator
Latest
Figure
2015
Target
Will Target be Achieved
under the Present Trend
MDG 7:
Ensuring
environmental
sustainability
Target 7.A: Integrate
the principles
of sustainable
development into
country policies
and programmes
and reverse the loss
of environmental
resources
Land covered by forests
(%)
45
63.6
Land protected to
maintain biological
diversity (%)
41
35.7
Carbon dioxide emissions
(MT per capita)
022
100
Proportion of population
using solid fuels (%)
83.8
Target 7.C: Halve
by 2015, the
proportion of
people without
sustainable access
to safe drinking
water and basic
sanitation
Proportion of population
without access to an
improved drinking water
source (%)
40
25.5 Acceleration required
Proportion of population
without access to
improved sanitation
facilities
36.1 13
Significant reforms and
investments needed
UNDP, 2012
Table 3.5 Zambia’s MDG-7 targets