Action Oriented Procedures And Measurability

6. (TCO 6) Imagine a world that is populated by 9 billion people. In order to maintain our current quality of life, such a world would require 2.3 planets’ worth of resources. In order to sustain the U.S. way of life, businesses and the government must plan for 30% more people living across the globe. Most of those people will be in developing countries, and the demand will be great for energy, food, and healthcare. Your concern is that you and your production team have been asked by your leadership to create a scorecard to measure your firm’s efforts in sustainability. Your team’s scorecard should necessarily include which? (Select all that apply.)

The objectives for this goal were of a collaborative nature with communities and partners to address career opportunities, forest health, wildfire risks, climate changes, heat stress, sea level rise, and environmental justice. In addition, one of the objectives of Goal 2 is to conduct public meetings that engage the communities in the decision making process. Yet again, Goal 2 has in place agency performance measures and target dates to ensure accountability and implementation of this goal.

Outcome Target (s): (example: Number and percent of program participants able to identify food items that are good sources of major dietary requirements.) Target Population

goals in order to improve the standards we mark to meet in the world, specifically in today’s

Target has a multi-year strategic goal plan that was implemented in various stages, beginning in 2009. These goals include increased sustainable seafood selection, increased organic food offerings, improved owned-brand packaging sustainability, reduced waste, reduced greenhouse gas emissions: per retail sales and square foot, increased Energy Star certifications, reduced water usage, and improved transportation efficiencies: inbound and outbound. As of fiscal year 2014,

Sustainable development is filling today’s needs without challenging the needs of future generations. It’s about bettering the standards of living by preserving human health, maintaining the environment, using available resources well, and progressing long-term economic competitiveness. To do this, the integration of environmental, economic, and social priorities into protocols and programs are required. This also requires different levels of action, from citizens, to industries, to government action. In 2008 a change to how the Canadian Government would accomplish its commitment to sustainable development was made called the Federal Sustainable Development Act. This Act made it so every 3 years, a complete approach showing the whole government

The agencies should decide if the action meets the threshold requirements or not. And prepare an EIS which describes in detail the effect of proposed activities. Also, the status makes it clear when the EIS must be completed and published the proposed rule in the Federal Register. is primarily procedural and timing is always the main theme. The agencies should combine NEPA with other planning as soon as possible to reflect the environmental values. And the NEPA needs agencies to go deep into the environmental consequences. EA shall be prepared early enough to serve an important contribution to making the decision.

The targets within goal 14 are, for the most part, currently measured. Target 14.1 is partially measured, in that studies on marine pollution are

What do these objectives mean, and how do we know that these goals have been met, thereby reflecting successful achievement of UHC in LMICs? In examining the three objectives in

1. The United Nations targets for ocean sustainability are measurable when looking at 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5 and 14.6. This is due to that fact that the United Nations is able to create a base level in order to look at the major contributors to these issues this can be then simplified as these contributors are the human population. For example, when look at target 14.3 which deals with the eminent of fossil fuels, fossil fuels are cause by production run by humans. Allowing humans to have control over how many fossil fuels they want to eminent on a daily basis. Another example of a target that can be measurable is 14.4 as it deals with the issue of over fishing and the use of fish stocks. This target is measurable as The United Nations is able to measure fish stocks and will be able to measure them ten years from now to see if the laws put in place are positively affecting our worlds oceans. They will be able to check the harvest growth pattern that the fish stocks provide in order to catch illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. There are however targets under The Unites Nations goal that are not measurable this can be seen when looking at targets 14.7,14. a,14. b and 14.c. I believe that these goals are unable to be measured due to that fact for example in 14.7 there is no quantification in dollars or percentages as it is looking at economic benefits of developing states. When looking at the other targets they are to general and have no specific goal (i.e. date)

The goals above, which are recognized as measureable, are already being recorded. Goal 12.3, dealing with cutting food waste is already being measured all over the globe, including which phase of the food supply chain most food is being wasted. In higher income countries, consumers waste more where as in lower income countries food tends to be wasted in production CITATION Gus11 l 1033 (Gustavsson, Cederberg, & Sonesson, 2011). Goal 12.4, relating to sound management of chemicals, is also being recorded. This goal is usually recorded on a more local basis, dealing with pollution within a certain area or body of water. This is documented within developed and developing countries, for example, there was a case study done on “Behavior

1997: Global Reporting Initiative initiated by the UNEP and the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES)

Many of the targets for goal 14 are measurable, however not all. Some targets are open for interpretation, and lack a solid unit of measurement. For example targets 14.2, 14.3 14.6 and 14.a/c cannot be measured. It would be difficult to determine the strength of resilience, and an adverse impact must first be defined by a unit that can be measured.(14.2) Furthermore cooperation cannot be measured by any units (14.3), “appropriate treatment of a country” is vague (14.6), nor is there a unit scientific knowledge nor enhanced conservation (14.a/c). Otherwise the targets are generally quantifiable, such as pH of ocean water (14.3), number of fish in fish stocks, and exploited fish populations (14.4), percentage of area conserved, by square foot, (14.5), reduction of subsidies is a numeric value easily understood, as well as economic benefit (14.6,14.7), percentage of artisanal fisheries (14.b).

In 2001, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) adopted a 10-year Environmental Strategy (OECD Observer, 2004). In 2004, they acknowledged they are not on track with the strategy (OECD Observer, 2004). They recognize the needs but only about one-third of the ministers reported reducing greenhouse gas emissions (OECD Observer, 2004).

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which expire in 2015. Focusing on goal 15 of the SDGs, the measurability and overall effectiveness of the targets will be assessed.