联合国：环境保护可促进经济发展 ENS美国，纽约报导；林盈秀、谢芳怡编译；蔡丽伶审校 上埃及的儿童得以享受乾净的水源及教育环境（图片来源：UNICEF）15 日由两 联合国机构共同公布的研究报告指出，埃及、秘鲁、越南和蒙古等国家，为了 实现2015年改善国内贫穷情况而提出许多改革计划，环境议题则是改革计划的 核心。「环境永续性与经济发展相互连接，两者就能相辅相成，」报告中透过 记录158个国家的成果，来佐证这项结论。 此报告为联合国开发计画署(UNDP)和联合国环境规画署(UNEP)合作，汇整开发 中国家朝「联合国千禧年发展目标」实现过程所发表的报告。为了在2015年之 前减缓贫困的情形，国际社会采用2000年9月发表的千禧年宣言，该宣言描绘出 千禧年发展的目标。 千禧年发展八大目标的范围从终止极度贫困到促成环境的永续发展，从终止 爱滋病传播到提供普遍的基础教育，这些目标经由全世界的发展机构及政府 认同，形塑出一份行动蓝图。在158个国家中，有85个国家已经设定至少一个 国家特定环境目标，占了54个百分比，是3年来最高的比例。 在埃及，保护环境是生态旅游产业的优先考量，政府正积极监测与记录水资源 、废弃物管理及土地侵蚀问题，以确保达到千禧年发展目标为目的，并设定 相应的目标。 阿尔巴尼亚、不丹、赖索托、尼泊尔、叙利亚、泰国及越南，都是报告中做得 不错的国家。但是报告希望大家注意，除非是更多的国家能有更大的野心去保护 大自然，否则整体的发展目标可能岌岌可危。 联合国环境规画署执行长史坦能(Achim Steiner)表示：「达成环境永续发展并 不只是一个国家的因素，而是关乎国际性的重大考量。各国在环境主流与减少 贫困及发展策略上，可以达成良好协议。」 史坦能指出，还需要更多努力使得计画更完美。他说：「全国性的环境品质降低 及环境永续发展的背道而驰，与全球化的贸易体制、经济手段及喜好自然产品及 服务的价值观，习习相关。」 此报告标题为「环境永续发展：超过150个在千禧年发展目标下国家经验的建议」 可以线上观看http://www.undp.org/energyandenvironment/index.html。 UN: Environmental Protection Enhances Economic Development NEW YORK, New York, December 18, 2006 (ENS) Egypt, Peru, Vietnam, and Mongolia are among the countries putting the environment at the core of their plans to cut poverty by 2015, according to a report issued Friday by two United Nations agencies. Environmental sustainability and economic development work best when they are linked, the report demonstrates by documenting progress in 158 countries. The UN Development Programme, UNDP, in partnership with the UN Environment Programme, UNEP, compiled the report on the progress developing countries are making towards realization of the UN Millennium Development Goals. In an attempt to alleviate poverty by 2015, the international community adopted the Millennium Declaration in September 2000, which outlines the Millennium Development Goals. The eight Goals - which range from halving extreme poverty to achieving environmental sustainability, from halting the spread of HIV/AIDS to providing universal primary education - form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s governments and development institutions. Of the 158 countries reviewed, 85 countries, 54 percent, have set at least one country specific environmental target - a greater proportion than in the previous three years. In Egypt, where protecting the environment is a priority for the country’s eco-tourism industry, the government is monitoring and reporting progress on water access, waste management and land degradation, with a view to ensuring it understands what still needs to happen to reach the Millennium Development Goals, and sets targets accordingly. Albania, Buthan, Lesotho, Nepal, Syria, Thailand and Vietnam were also cited among the leaders by the report. But unless more governments take more ambitious steps to protect the natural world, overall development goals will be jeopardized, the report cautions. UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said, "Achievement of environmental sustainability is not only a national concern but one with significant international dimensions. Countries, by mainstreaming environment into poverty reduction and development strategies, can achieve a great deal." But Steiner says more needs to be accomplished. "National environmental degradation, and conversely environmental sustainability, is also inextricably linked with trading regimes, economic instruments and the values placed on nature-based goods and services within a globalized world," he said. The report, entitled "Making Progress on Environmental Sustainability: Lessons and recommendation from a review of over 150 MDG country experiences," is online at: http://www.undp.org/energyandenvironment/index.html 全文及图片详见http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2006/2006-12-18-03.asp ------ 简感:我们要多学着点啊!!! -- 寒舍 异想超域航志 谜之声 ↘ ↓ ↙ http://www.wretch.cc/blog/BarkingSin --

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