MDG 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability

As an outcome of the highest level of political and policy support for ensuring environmental sustainability and the active engagement of its development partners, Bhutan has enjoyed complete success in meeting its commitment to MDG-7. Bhutan is fully on track to meet the various targets set under the Goal and can be regarded to be an early achiever. The country continues to maintain a healthy forest cover of 72.5% of the total land area with 29% maintained as protected areas. Bhutan's dense forests act as effective carbon sinks and taking carbon sequestration into consideration actually has negative CO2 emissions per capita. The country is also an early achiever with regard to its targets for the provisioning of water and sanitation coverage in the country with levels envisaged to approach near universal coverage levels by 2015.

Status of Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Indicators	1990	2000	2007	2015	Status of Progress toward Target
Proportion of land area covered by forest	72.5%	72.5%	72.5%	-	On Track
Ratio of protected area to surface area for maintaining biological diversity	23%	26%	29%	-	On Track
Per capita energy use(kg oil equivalent per 1000 US $ PPP)	-	-	-	-	Insufficient data
CO2 (per capita) Emissions	- 5.89 tons (1994)	-	-	-	Insufficient data
Proportion of population using solid fuels	-	75%	-	-	Insufficient data
Proportion of population without access to an improved water source (urban and rural)	55%	22%	9.1%	27.5%	Achieved
Proportion of population without access to improved sanitation	33%	12%	3.6%	16.5%	Achieved