Environmental Education and Millennium

Development Goals
By: Jieck Roland Alfeche
 What is Environment
• The word Environment is derived from the
French word “Environ” which means
“surrounding”. Environment can be simply
defined as one’s surroundings.
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
• Environmental education is a process that allows
individuals to explore environmental issues, engage
in problem solving, and take action to improve the
environment.
GOALS OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
• To foster clear awareness of, and concern about, economic,
social, political, and ecological interdependence in urban and
rural areas;
• To provide every person with opportunities to acquire the
knowledge, values, attitudes, commitment, and skills needed
to protect and improve the environment;
• To create new patterns of behavior of individuals, groups, and
society as a whole towards the environment.
 IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

• Environmental education engages learners as they understand

how nature works and how humans impact our world. It gives
them the knowledge and tools they need to be
environmentally literate–ready to face environmental and
social challenges with confidence and optimism.
 COMPONENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION:
1.Awareness and sensitivity to the environment and environmental challenges
2. Knowledge and understanding of the environment and environmental
challenges
3. Attitudes of concern for the environment and motivation to improve or
maintain environmental quality
4. Skills to identify and help resolve environmental challenges
5. Participation in activities that lead to the resolution of environmental
challenges
 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IS MORE THAN
INFORMATION ABOUT ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Education
Increases public awareness and knowledge of
environmental issues
Does teach individuals critical-thinking
Does enhance individuals' problem-solving
and decision-making skills
Does not advocate a particular viewpoint
Environmental Information
Provides facts or opinions about environmental
issues
Does not necessarily teach individuals critical-
thinking
Does not necessarily enhance individuals'
problem-solving and decision-making skills
May advocate a particular viewpoint
 MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• The United Nations Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) are the eight goals set by the 189 UN
member states in September 2000 and agreed to be
achieved by the year 2015.
 THE EIGHT MILLENIUM
DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG)
 ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER
• FAO estimates that the number of people who will suffer from
chronic hunger in 2014-16 is 793 million.
• FAO focuses on poverty and hunger reduction through:
improving agricultural productivity and incomes and
promoting better nutritional practices at all levels that
enhance direct and immediate access to food by the neediest.
 MDG1 targets:
1. To halve the proportion of people whose daily income is less
than $1.25
2. To achieve full and productive employment, as well as decent
work for all, including young people and women
3. 3. To halve the proportion of individuals suffering from
hunger in the period between 1990 and 2015.
 Achieve universal primary education
• The urban-rural knowledge and education divide is today’s
main barrier to achieving universal primary education by 2015.

• About 57 million primary school age children do not attend

school. Over four out of five of these children live in rural
areas.
 MDG2 target:
• To ensure that children universally – including both boys and
girls – will be able to complete a full course of primary
education by 2015.
 PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER
WOMEN
• FAO recognizes the importance of promoting the full and
equitable participation of women and men in efforts to
improve food security and reduce poverty.
 MDG3 target:
• To eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary
education by 2005, and in all levels of education by 2015
 REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

• Globally, the number of deaths of children under 5 years of

age fell from 12.7 million in 1990 to 6.3 million in 2013.
• In 2013, around 44% of under-five deaths occurred during this
period, up from 37% in 1990.
 MDG4 target:

• To reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds in the

period between 1990 and 2015
 IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

• Improving maternal health is critical to saving the lives of

hundreds of thousands of women who die due to complication
from pregnancy and childbirth each year.
• Over 90% women died because of the lack of basic literacy and
health services, and safe water and sanitation
 MDG5 targets:

• To reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 75 percent

• To achieve universal access to reproductive health
 COMBAT HID/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER
DISEASES
• HIV, malaria, and other diseases directly and indirectly impact
food and nutrition security, rural development, and
agricultural productivity.
• At the end of 2013, 35 million people were living with HIV.
 MDG6 targets:

• To halt by 2015 and have started to reverse the spread of

HIV/AIDS
• To achieve global access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for those
who need it by 2010
• To have ceased and started reversal of the incidence of malaria
and other major diseases by 2015
 ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

• The natural resources base and ecosystems must be managed

sustainably to meet people’s food requirements and other
environmental, social and economic needs.
 MDG7 targets:
• To integrate the principles of sustainable development into every nation’s policies
and programmes, and also reverse the depletion of environmental resources
• To reduce biodiversity loss and achieve a substantial reduction in the rate of loss
by 2010
• To halve the proportion of the universal population without sustainable access to
clean and safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015.
• To achieve substantial improvement in the lives of a minimum of 100 million
slum dwellers by 2020.
 DEVELOP GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR
DEVELOPMENT
• The targets most relevant to the mandate of FAO relate to the
special needs of least developed countries (LCDs), landlocked
countries and small island developing states; the trading and
financial system; and new information and communication
technology (ICT)
 MDG8 targets:
• To further develop an open, predictable, rule-based, non-discriminatory trading
and economic system
• To address the special needs of the least developed countries
• To address the special needs of small island developing States and landlocked
developing countries
• To deal exhaustively with the debt problems of developing nations
• To provide access to affordable essential drugs in the developing world – in
collaboration with pharmaceutical companies
• To avail benefits of new technologies, especially information and
communications, in collaboration with the private sector.
THE END!