During the ten years that the United Nations Development Program adopted the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), also called "eight ways to change the world", Brazil has achieved significant results that put the country in a position to reach the targets expected by 2015. The conclusion is in the 4th Millennium Development Goals Report, which will be released on Wednesday (March 24) in a ceremony at the Ulysses Guimarães Convention Center, in Brasília.
The evaluation made by the Brazilian government for the United Nations found encouraging results in public policies and actions of the private sector and civil society aimed at reaching the goals proposed by the UN. Work, health, education and environment are areas in which the Brazilian government has been improving in recent years.
A step by step review examined the effectiveness of measures taken in the country to end poverty and hunger, provide primary education to all, reduce child mortality, improve the population's health, fighting AIDS and other diseases, and improve the quality of life and the respect for the environment. In most of the eight goals of the millennium, Brazil has reached good results.
The seventh goal, related to environment and quality of life, is identified as one that showed most significant advances. According to the report, the drastic reduction in the rates of deforestation in the Amazon (which dropped to one third of the average area deforested in the last ten years), combined with policies to reduce CO2 emissions, ozone and greenhouse gases, has demonstrated the commitment of the environmental authorities in the quest for sustainable development solutions.
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