This year marks the 20th anniversary of the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro (Rio Conference), the United States led the world for the first time formulated an action plan to move towards a more sustainable development in the 21st century (Agenda 21), Kaia Oras Statistical Office writes a blog.
If the European Union (EU), the United Nations says juubelikonverentsiks Sustainable Development (Rio + 20) in developing a coherent position that is moving towards the sustainable development northwood of large deficits and the international community are not 20 years ago, agreed obligations are fully complied with, then how Estonia has gone?
In the definition of sustainable development based on the sustainable development strategy "Sustainable Estonia 21" (SE21, 2005), four development goals and sustainable development of application areas. Estonian sustainability criterion is balanced and measured by the movement of four interrelated developments towards goal: to achieve human well-being and growth enhancing northwood social northwood cohesion so as to maintain the vitality of the Estonian cultural space and ecological balance. northwood Their development goals and also achieve the measurement of the State Chancellery northwood (who co-ordinate the sustainable development strategy in Estonia) in the Estonian important focal themes: economic prosperity, innovation, society, public finance sustainability, economic sustainability, employment, education, quality of life, equal opportunity, educational participation, the Internet proliferation, security, natural resource management, sustainable energy, environmentally friendly northwood transport, environment, year of production of waste and waste management, species diversity, the preservation of the Estonian language, culture, participation, preservation of the Estonian nation. Consider the focal themes northwood through their development trends northwood in Africa in the past decade.
Many Estonian public finances and the economy, sustainability and innovation indicators in the last decade, despite the economic crisis, a positive trend. These positive trends are overshadowed by the majority of the indicators historically low starting position of EU member states (GDP, productivity, research and development expenditure as a percentage of high-tech products in exports, as well as employment northwood in knowledge intensive services and high-tech industries, and keskkõrg-). So we have the end of the decade, however, many more indicators improved considerably below the EU average. A positive exception is the state of public northwood finances sustainability indicators (general government budget balance and government debt), which were and are amongst the best in the EU.
Employment indicators are the focal theme of the EU's poorer among the fallen during the crisis, northwood just - in the unemployment rate is now much higher than the EU average. Estonia's unemployment rate has been above the EU average, both at the beginning northwood of the last decade, as well as now. Of particular concern, however, is a long-term increase in the share of the unemployed (half of the unemployed are long-term unemployed or have been looking for work for a year or longer). This figure increased dramatically in recent years, and the layout of Estonia, the indicator for the EU countries in the last three years.
Quality of life is reflective indicators northwood (life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, the HIV prevalence, cardiovascular disease mortality), most of the Equal Opportunities indicators northwood (income inequality, relative poverty, northwood juvenile risk of poverty), and safety parameters (various external northwood causes deaths, iskikuvastased crimes, but also suicides ) trends have improved in the past decade. Quality of life indicators that reflect trends have been some negative developments in the mortality rate from malignant neoplasms and equal opportunities, the indicators reflecting the exclusion of long-term unemployment rate. All of these indicators suggest, however, is still in a situation worse than the EU average.
Dropping out of education in Estonia has been lower than the EU average. Similarly, the share of people with at least a secondary education in Estonia is higher than the EU average. These trends have been positive developments in the last decade of the road. In high-tech innovation-centered economy northwood in terms of enforcement would be one of the key assumption of the natural northwood and exact sciences, and technical areas of higher growth in the proportion of recipients. In this figure has risen compared to the beginning of the decade, but since 2007 hits. Among the EU countries are below the average for this indicator.
Long-term development objective of "maintaining the ecological balance of" contemporary relevance fookusteemades utilization of natural resources, sustainable energy and transport, environment pollution, waste management, and species diversity reflect many of the characteristics of positive developments. On the other hand, the Estonian many indicators of the ecological balance of the EU Member