Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases are crucial targets that become even more urgent in the context of worsening climate conditions.

Although the world is economically wealthier than ever, the environmental threats and inequalities between South and North, rich and poor, are enormous and growing. Global Greens insist that all world citizens, especially the wealthiest, do their fair share in achieving greater social justice.

Greens will use their influence to promote the Millennium Goals and to get the international community to fulfil the promises made in the biggest ever General Assembly of Heads of States held by the UN in the year 2000.

If conditions are applied to grants and loans as well as to other forms of financial assistance, these conditions must promote, for example, the development of civil society, of good governance and empowerment of women.

Greens also urge donor countries to substantially increase their aid flows, in order to reach the required additional 50 billion US dollars for programmable multilateral and bilateral aid, to at least 0.7% of GDP, particularly for the least developed countries, so that all countries are able to reach the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. These goals include reducing poverty levels by 50%, providing primary education for all children, and assuring universal access to health services and clean drinking water.

In this context Greens also stick to their commitment to demand the cancellation of developing country debt, especially of the poorest countries. At the same time they state clearly that while the Millennium Goals are just a first step they will strive for elimination of poverty by 2030 at the latest.