SDAN Environmental Goals
( From: Sustainable Development Agenda for Nepal, 2002)

• Every citizen has easy access to adequate amounts of clean water, nutritious food, and clean air.
• Most of the nation’s energy is generated from domestic renewable sources, including hydro, solar, wind, as well as sustainably harvested and cleanly burned bio-fuel. The transport sector is increasingly powered by domestic renewable energy sources, with continuing efforts to free it from fossil-fuel dependence.
• Nepal’s hydropower potential is developed not just for domestic consumption but also to provide a steady source of export income.
• Land use is planned and managed at the national and local level such that resource bases and ecosystems are improved, with complementarity between high- and low- lands, that forest biomass grows, that agricultural and forest lands are protected from urban sprawl, and that biodiversity is conserved at the landscape level by recognizing threats from habitat fragmentation and loss of forest cover.
• A system of protected areas (including national parks and conservation areas) is maintained and further developed to safeguard the nation’s rich biodiversity against human-induced extinction. Local communities near protected areas are involved in both the management and economic benefit sharing of the area.
• Every citizen has adequate availability of forest products to meet his or her basic need, and also has the opportunity to enjoy aesthetic and spiritual experiences in nature.
• The micro-climates of hills and mountains are used to produce high-value horticultural and agricultural products and sustainable production of non-timber forest products for domestic consumption and export.
• Scientific research and domestic industry ensures that Nepal gets adequate benefit from the protection of the genetic diversity of its biological resources.
• Domestic scientific expertise on global and regional environmental threats, including climate change, is developed to closely inform Nepal’s foreign and domestic policy on those as well as to help adequately prepare for adverse consequences.

 
 
 
Environmental conservation should not be an after-thought of modern economic development; it is an intrinsic and inviolable party to prospects of poverty reduction and sustainable economic growth.
—Sustainable Development Agenda for Nepal, 2002