The different targets of this goal are as followed:

Target 7.A. Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources.

•Forests are a safety net, especially for the poor, but they continue to disappear at an alarming rate.

• An increase in afforestation, a slight decrease in deforestation and the natural expansion of forests have reduced the net loss of forest from an average of 8.3 million hectares annually in the 1990s to an average of 5.2 million hectares annually between 2000 and 2010.

• Between 1990 and 2012, global emissions of carbon dioxide increased by over 50 per cent.

• Ozone-depleting substances have been virtually eliminated, and the ozone layer is expected to recover by the middle of this century.