United Nations Resources

Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that respond to the world's main development challenges. The MDGs are drawn from the actions and targets contained in the Millennium Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations-and signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000.

• Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
• Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
• Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
• Goal 5: Improve maternal health
• Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

• Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development :
  
  T he Millennium Development Goals Report 2005

Other Resources

         

 Water Price Rising Worldwide: Water is increasingly becoming the new scarce resource. As a result price of water is rising worldwide. Yet free and formal water markets hardly exist. In countries across the world, water is a subsidized commodity. Subsidies result in non-optimal use of resource in the supply of water, overuse and non-conservation of water by industries farmers and households.

How we protect watershed:  Animation from Nature Conservancy
http://www.nature.org/popups/freshwater/watershed.html   

Water Conservation:
Lower Mississippi River: Restoring Bottomland Forest

Bringing Balance to Colombia’s Magdalena River   

Paying Water's real cost        
Subsidies given to water makes price of water low and leads to over use of water.

         

Global Partnership          

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/iri/12337856211.htm

Videos

Interviews with Jeffery Sachs

Jeff Sachs on Google Talks
Jeffery Sachs at the national Constitution Center on Earth Day
Jeffery Sachs with Good Magazine 

UN Videos on Water and Climate Change

• 2006 Report : Water scarcity; Launch video - Kibera-Sanitation
• 2007 -2008: Report: Climate change and human development
  The Human Development Report 2007/2008 warns that the world has less than a decade to avoid a climate change crisis that could bring unprecedented reversals in poverty reduction, nutrition, health and education to the world's poorest people.
  

Nobel Lecture Videos

• Nobel Lecture from IPCC Chairman- 2007 Peace Prize
• Nobel Lecture from Al Gore - 2007 Peace Prize

Videos on Energy

Saved by the Sun
This is a video about Solar energy. Chapter 4 - The German Experiment talks about economic incentives for Solar energy and its costs, limitations etc.

Movies

• Global Warming: the Signs and the Science (2005)
• An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Presentation for ECCSSA

Email: Dr. Satarupa Das