Linking Poverty and Environment

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Linking Poverty and Environment Philip
Dobie Drylands Development Centre Global
Biodiversity Forum Havana, Cuba 30 August 2003
United Nations Development Programme
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The Poverty-Environment Agenda
Environment Livelihoods
Access to Information, Justice Decision-Making
Environment Vulnerability
Environment Health
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Mainstreaming Poverty-Environment Issues
Improve Governance
Enhance the assets of the poor
Reform international industrial country
policies
Improve the quality of growth
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The Millennium Development Goals
Ensure sound equitable management of
biodiversity ecosystems
Enhanced livelihood security
Eradicate extreme poverty hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Ensure access to safe water sanitation services
Promote gender equality
Reduced health risk
Improve air quality limit exposure to toxic
chemicals
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Reduce mitigate natural disasters
resource-based conflict
Reduced vulnerability
Combat major diseases
Reduce mitigate climate variability change
Ensure environmental sustainability
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UNDPs Integrated Drylands Development Programme

• an integrated approach to drylands development
• mainstreaming environmental issues into central
  policy
• an opportunity to integrate biodiversity issues
  into mainstream development

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The Global Drylands Imperative
Do we wish to use this effective mechanism to
prepare challenging papers and programmes for the
next CBD COP?
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for more information
UNDP INTEGRATED DRYLANDS DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME philip.dobie _at_undp.org GLOBAL DRYLANDS
IMPERATIVE dianna.kopansky_at_undp.org POVERTY AND
ENVIRONMENT INITIATIVE www.undp.org/seed/pei POVE
RTY AND ENVIRONMENT PARTNERSHIP peter.hazelwood_at_un
dp.org PUBLICATION Linking Poverty Reduction
and Environmental Management Policy Challenges
and Opportunities www.undp.org/wssd/docs/LPREM.pdf