The Un Millennium Summit : Eight Millennium Development Goals

Climate change has shifted the global political and socioeconomic landscape with governments, businesses and non-profit organisations adopting green strategies in an effort to make their processes more environmentally friendly and reduce their carbon footprints. In September 2015, the United Nations spearheaded an initiative involving its 193 Member States known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The set of 17 goals aim to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda (United Nations, 2017). This report will outline the importance of clean energy, sustainable development in cities and what preventative actions can be taken to tackle growing issues over climate change. This report will also discuss the implementation of Information Communications Technology (ICT) solutions to help countries meet the SDG targets by 2030.

Purpose of this research is to discuss the problem of climate change and highlight the importance of sustainable development of resources to reduce or eliminate global warming. This paper also introduces the Paris Agreement to its readers and the research is questioned by asking: What if countries don’t sign Paris Agreement? The information used in this research paper is obtained from the official United Nations website which is the primary source of information for this paper as well as the secondary sources like Reuters and NASA along with scholarly sources like ProQuest. This paper refers to previous studies and discusses the effects of climate change and global warming domestically as well as globally on a country. In this research, the significance of the Paris Agreement as a driving force in reducing activities responsible for climate change and lowering percentage of global warming will be highlighted. Referring to the analytical and statistical information provided by NASA, the paper is designed to persuade the readers that the information is credible and accurate.

World Health Organizations (WHO) and Millennium Development Goals (MDG) played a very important part in the world. They worked so hard to improve the status of many countries in different ways especially in the area of improving health and fighting diseases. A declaration signed by the United Nations Millennium was established to fight poverty, diseases included but not limited to HIV/AIDS, hunger, women discrimination, illiteracy, mortality rate among women, infant and children. The MDGs has eight specific targets goals which were obtained from the declaration. The purpose statement of this paper focused on one of the target goal of MDGs which is eradicating extreme poverty and hunger on global health.

Access to energy is unequivocally one of the determining factors in eradicating poverty and improving socioeconomic wellbeing. On the other hand, unsustainable energy consumption has been one of the main causes leading to climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and the associated environmental damages. In an attempt to optimize the beneficial aspects of energy consumption and mitigate its undesirable effects, the United Nations included “Access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all” as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). While goals are simply aspirational, in order to translate them into an achievable reality, targets must be set out that have the ability of adequately measuring the

We live in a world that is dangerously out of balance. There are 1.1 billion people living on less than one dollar a day, an additional 1.7 billion people living on less than 2 dollars a day, more than 115 million children uneducated, and over 40 million people are HIV positive. These numbers show that there is great misery and unnecessary death in our world and that billions of people have little opportunity to lead a decent life and fully use their potential to develop as human beings. For the first time in human history there is an extremely powerful consensus in which the global community is attempting to work together in the hopes of ensuring that all people, everywhere,

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.

Goal 15 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals focuses on the protection, restoration and promotion of sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems. This includes the sustainable management of forests, the combating of desertification and the halt and reversal of land degradation and biodiversity loss. This Goal contains 12 individual targets, which specifically explain how this goal will be reached.

The Japanese are an ancient people whose history dates before Common Era, and may date farther back than we can possibly know. Their history is full of civil wars, invasions, and conquering other nations, so it was essentially a war fueled country. Yet one should not think of the Japanese people as barbaric warriors who only fought for fun, as they fought for survival. The Island of Japan does not have a lot of natural resources, so the Japanese took to warfare to feed their families and support their country. Now Japan has evolved into one of the most advanced countries around, with a life expectancy at 83!these facts on Japan were found on the website of United Nations Development Programme Human Development Reports. In the ranking of

During the past one year and until now, there has been more than 14,000 people infected by Ebola Virus and about 5000 people died. Situations are still not under control, though efforts have been made by countries and organizations. Today I called for your attention in this vulnerable but significant issues: assure health and well-being lives for everyone around the world. I stand here represent my country’s government and people to make the commitment: we shall both improve the standard of living of people in China and exchange and aid other countries, in particular those least developed countries.

Nomadic pastoralists across the globe have struggled to maintain their identity while trying to conform to traditional, formal government run education systems. As declared by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, education is a universal human right that should be free and compulsory through at least the basic elementary levels (United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Document). For nomadic pastoralists, who move regularly in order to find adequate grazing land for their livestock and water sources for survival, the traditional formal school set-up is often not feasible, and they are frequently excluded from receiving the education they are entitled to according to the Universal Declaration. Other

The United Nations was created after World War II, on October 24, 1945. It was created to provide an international council that would promote peace between countries. They would work together to solve international problems (History of The United Nations). It was also created to replace the League of Nations, the United Nation’s predecessor. There have been many peacekeeping missions conducted by the United Nations, such as interventions in Bosnia, Rwanda, Syria, and Korea. They also have Millennium Development Goals to better the world’s health. The Millennium Development Goals are eight of the world’s major problems that the United Nations set out to solve by the year 2015. All of the countries in the world are working to solve problems such as extreme hunger and poverty, and maternal health (News On The MDGs.). These missions have tested the United Nations ability to resolve conflict and keep peace. Failure is the inability to complete the goals you set out to complete. Failure is the incapability of living up to the standards that you set up for yourself. The United Nations has proven that they have failed to achieve many of their goals. Not only have they failed to provide primary education to all children, but they also failed to prevent a major genocide in Bosnia, and although there was some success in Korea, they still failed to bring together the North and the South under a democratic republic.

Maternity services are services rendered to expectant women during prenatal, delivery and post natal period. This particular time is crucial to birthing a healthy baby as well as ensuring a healthy mother. Many still births and miscarriages occur mostly because of lack of proper medical care during the pregnancy period. In addition, about half a million women lose their lives every year during the period of pregnancy, delivery or post delivery (World Health Report, 2005). Maternity care is thus very essential and governments need to ensure unlimited and unrestricted access by all women.

The United Nations (UN) Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012 led to the proposal for sustainable development goals. The focus of this paper will be on Goal 14, “Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development” (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, n.d.).

UAE has been named as the least eco-friendly country in a recent global analysis due to its high reliance on desalinated water and air conditioning. This status came to be primarily from the “high force push development” time period which was during the 2008-2014 period. The “high force push development period” refers to the period where development plans were being implemented to a point where both economical as well as environmental resources were strenuously used to keep on track of the issued development plan. And as a result this period accounts for most of the negative environmental impacts associated with the region. To put in simple terms the High Force Push Development Period is responsible for almost 75 percent of the adverse environmental impact of the region. The whole situation can be looked upon in the form of a constant cycle.

The twelfth goal of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to “Ensure Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns” ("Open Working Group”).