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Sustainability and Equity: A better future for all Human Development Report 2011

Sustainability and Equity: A better future for all Human Development Report 2011. Name Place Date. MAIN MESSAGES Progress in human development is threatened by environmental and inequality trends Environmental threats hurt the poorest the most

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Sustainability and Equity: A better future for all Human Development Report 2011

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  1. Sustainability and Equity:A better future for allHuman Development Report 2011 Name Place Date

  2. MAIN MESSAGES Progress in human development is threatened by environmental and inequality trends Environmental threats hurt the poorest the most Development aspirations of poor people must go hand in hand with enhanced sustainability But larger structural changes are also needed Equity and sustainability are inextricably linked, one must be achieved with the other

  3. Progress in human development is threatened by environmental and inequality trends

  4. Environment and inequality threats to human development

  5. … and development gaps will be harder to close

  6. HDI losses from inequality largest in low and medium HDI countries Loss in HDI due to multidimensional inequality by HDI level

  7. Gender Inequality and Sustainability Impact of disasters is much greater for women • Driven by unequal exposure, access and capabilities Gender inequalities are associated with greater environmental degradation • Countries with more women in parliament more likely to set aside protected land areas Positive synergy from women’s participation • Engaging women in disaster risk mapping associated with greater empowerment and resilience

  8. Disparities in power aggravate unequal environmental impacts • Power disparities shape patterns of deprivation • Eg. Toxic waste facilities located predominantly in working class and minority neighbourhoods • Empowerment can improve environmental sustainability • Eg. relatively less deforestation in areas with more women’s and environmental NGOs • Developing countries and marginalized groups have proportionally less influence on global governance

  9. Environmental threats hurt the poorest the most

  10. Climate change exacerbates chronic environmental threats • Rising global temperatures and sea levels • Likelihood of natural disasters increasing • average annual number doubled over 25 years • Loss of ecosystems • threatens livelihoods • Low HDI countries experience greatest forest cover losses (11% since 1990) • Poorest cannot replace lost ecological infrastructure (eg. mangroves) with built systems

  11. Poorest countries worst affected by changes in rain Avg. value, 1951 - 1980 Avg. value, 2000s

  12. The most disadvantaged people carry a double burden • Double burden of the poor: vulnerability & deprivation • Nearly 90% lack access to modern cooking fuels • 80% lack adequate sanitation • 35% lack clean water • Overlapping deprivations revealed by our measures: • 80% experience two or more deprivations • 29% face all three.

  13. Overlapping deprivations

  14. Development aspirations of poor people must go hand in hand with enhanced sustainability

  15. Learning from local success Numerous small scale programmesand projects are successful in promoting positive synergies. • Community management of natural resources can lead to better environmental and human development outcomes. • Access to affordable clean energy can lead to better health, education and economic outcomes.

  16. Rising to the policy challenges: national levers for change Clean and safe environment – a right not a privilege. Integrating equity into the design, implementation & monitoring of policies.

  17. But larger structural changes are also needed

  18. Development needs far exceed current levels of ODA

  19. Macro shifts require global innovations • New financing source: • Currency Transactions Tax • Feasibility of implementation and growing high-level support. • Environmental finance • Private-Public Partnerships • Global Governance: • Reforms to enable greater equity and access to finance. • Participation and accountability – locally, nationally and globally

  20. On the way to Rio+20 • Equity and environmental sustainability must go hand in hand • Expanding choices of the poor – the route to long term sustainability • Empowerment, accountability and participation are of both intrinsic and instrumental value in this path

  21. Expanding choices for current and future generations requires addressing both equity and sustainability HDR 2011 is about how this can and must be done

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