African Union QUESTION 5: What are the measures adopted to ensure environmental sustainability and accountability? Indicators a. Describe programmes, policies and strategies adopted by your country to ensure environmental sustainability b. Assess the progress made by providing following information: Proportion of land area covered by forest; Proportion of population using an improved drinking water source; Proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility; Proportion of urban population living in slums. c. Describe the measures taken to: - ensure that all development projects comply with environmental standards and principles; - promote specific projects that contribute to the protection and improvement of the natural and built environment and participate in the promotion of social welfare; - manage the environmental print in the context of development projects; - encourage a diversified economic development; - ensure that all renewable resources are used in a viable manner in the long-term; - maintain economic activity within the limits of the capacity of the ecosystems d. Describe measures put in place for combating climate change, specifying, among others: - protection of the environment with regard to the key objectives and action plans of the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development and the Kyoto Summit aimed at combating climate change; - implementation of bold policies for diversification of energy sources, using renewable energies such as biomass, solar and facilitating their access by the majority of citizens from all social backgrounds. e. Recommend measures for eliminating the constraints and consolidating the progress made. Objective 2: Encourage broad-based participation in development 78