Global Development Goals and Linkages to Health and Sustainability Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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. In September 2012, the Roundtable established the Global Environmental Health and Sustainable Development Innovation Collaborative as an ad hoc activity to provide an adaptable pathway for discussing issues related to sustainable development and for sharing scientific information across United Nations (UN)
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. In 1992, sustainable development was formally endorsed by the international community at the historic UN Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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, and a plan of implementation was developed that reinforced the interdependent components of sustainable development (economic development, social development, and environmental protection) and overarching objectives, including poverty eradication, improved human health, and protection and management of the natural resources base.
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Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation 7D. By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
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. PURPOSE OF THE WEBINAR SERIES In June 2012, world leaders and participants from government, NGOs, the private sector, and civil society gathered in Rio de Janeiro for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development to honor the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit (commonly referred to as Rio+20)
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The challenge is to achieve collective support for effective, meaningful, concise, and easy-to-communicate global development goals that will focus on the three areas of sustainable development and benefit the health of populations at the global, regional, and national levels. In an effort to provide varied perspectives that may benefit higher-level policy discussions, the Global Environmental Health and Sustainable Development Innovation Collaborative hosted a webinar series during October, November, and December 2012.
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1992. Report of the United Nations conference on environment and development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3–14 June 1992.
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2000. United Nations Millennium Declaration.
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