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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

Table 3.5 Zambia’s MDG-7 targets

Latest Figure

2015 Target

Will Target be Achieved under the Present Trend

Goal

Target

Indicator

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 Target 7.C: Halve by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access

Land covered by forests (%)

45

63.6

Land protected to maintain biological diversity (%)

41

35.7

Carbon dioxide emissions (MT per capita) Proportion of population using solid fuels (%) Proportion of population without access to an improved drinking water source (%) Proportion of population without access to improved sanitation facilities

022

100

83.8

40

25.5 Acceleration required

36.1 13

Significant reforms and investments needed

to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

UNDP, 2012

112

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