PHM-Exch> Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All - Human Development Report 2011

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from : EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org


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 *Human Development Report 2011
Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

* *United Nations Development Programme UNDP
November 2011 - * ****New York**, **NY**, **USA****

**** *Available online at: http://bit.ly/uwa0mg

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“…… The great development challenge of the 21st century is to safeguard the
right of generations today and in the future to live healthy and fulfilling
lives. The 2011 *Human Development Report *offers important new
contributions to the global dialogue on this challenge, showing how
sustainability is inextricably linked to equity—to questions of fairness
and social justice and of greater access to a better quality of life.

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Forecasts suggest that continuing failure to reduce the grave environmental
risks and deepening inequalities threatens to slow decades of sustained
progress by the world’s poor majority—and even to reverse the global
convergence in human development. Our remarkable progress in human
development cannot continue without bold global steps to reduce both
environmental risks and inequality.  The Report identifies pathways for
people, local communities, countries and the international community to
promote environmental sustainability and equity in mutually reinforcing
ways.

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New analysis shows how power imbalances and gender inequalities at the
national level are linked to reduced access to clean water and improved
sanitation, land degradation and illness and death due to air pollution,
amplifying the effects associated with income disparities. Gender
inequalities also interact with environmental outcomes and make them worse.
At the global level, governance arrangements often weaken the voices of
developing countries and exclude marginalized groups.

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But there are alternatives to inequality and unsustainability. Investments
that improve equity—for example, in access to renewable energy, water and
sanitation, and reproductive healthcare—could advance both sustainability
and human development. Stronger accountability and democratic processes can
also improve outcomes. Successful approaches rely on community management,
broadly inclusive institutions and attention to disadvantaged groups.

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Beyond the Millennium Development Goals, the world needs a development
framework that reflects equity and sustainability. The Report shows that
approaches that integrate equity into policies and programmes and that
empower people to bring about change in the legal and political arenas hold
enormous promise.****

The financing needed for development are many times greater than current
official development assistance. Today’s spending on low-carbon energy
sources, for example, is less than 2 percent of even the lowest estimate of
need.

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Financing flows need to be channeled towards the critical challenges of
unsustainability and inequity. While market mechanisms and private funding
will be vital, they must be supported and leveraged by proactive public
investment.Closing the financing gap requires innovative thinking, which
the Report provides. The Report also advocates reforms to promote equity
and voice. We have a collective responsibility towards the least privileged
among us today and in the future around the world—to ensure that the
present is not the enemy of the future. The Report can help us see the ways
forward….”

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*Content: *

**·         ***Summary *****

***·         ****Complete report [5 MB] **http://bit.ly/vhnXj5 ***

**·         **Overview ****

**·         **Chapter 1 - Why sustainability and equity? ****

**·         **Chapter 2 - Patterns and trends in human development, equity
and environmental indicators ****

**·         **Chapter 3 - Tracing the effects—understanding the relations **
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**·         **Chapter 4 - Positive synergies—winning strategies for the
environment, equity and human development ****

**·         **Chapter 5 - Rising to the policy challenges ****

**·         **Notes and Bibliography ****

**·         **Human development statistical annex ****

**·         **Readers guide ****

**·         **Technical notes

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*2011 Report statistical data* *2011 Report presentation*

**·         **2011 Report
Presentation<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2011_EN_Presentation_rev.pptx>[797
KB]
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