Republic of Moldova

Addressing the environmental challenges and risks is imperative for Moldova. The Government of Moldova has recognized environment protection as one of its top governing priorities.

International targets

• Integrate the principles of sustainable development in country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
  
• Halve, by 2015, the proportion of population without sustainable access to safe water sources.
  
• Improve the lives of at least 100.000 slum dwellers by 2020.
  

Initial national targets

• Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reduce degradation of natural resources, increase afforestation from 10.3% in 2002 up to 11% in 2006, 12.1% in 2010, and 13.2% in 2015.
  
• Increase the share of protected areas to preserve biological diversity from 1.96% in 2002 to 2.1% in 2006, 2.2% in 2010, and 2.4% in 2015.
  
• Halve the number of people without permanent access to safe water sources by 2015. Increase the share of population with permanent access to safe water sources from 38.5% in 2002 up to 47.4% in 2006, 57% in 2010, and 68.5% in 2015.
  
• Halve by 2015 the number of people without access to improved sewage and sanitation systems.
  

(Source: draft National Report „Millennium Development Goals Report:„New Challenges – New Objectives”)

Revised national targets

• Integrate principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reduce the degradation of natural resources. Increase the forested areas from 10.3 percent in 2002 to 12.1 percent in 2010 and 13.2 percent in 2015.
• Increase the share of protected areas to preserve biological diversity from 1.96 percent in 2002 to 4.65 percent in 2010 and 4.65 percent in 2015.
• Increase the share of people with permanent access to safe water from 38.5 percent in 2002 to 59 percent in 2010 and 65 percent in 2015.
• Halve the number of people without access to improved sewage and sanitation systems. Increase the share of people with permanent access to sewage systems from 31.3 percent in 2002 to 50.3 percent in 2010 and 65 percent in 2015.
• Increase the number of people who have access to sanitation systems from 41.7 percent of the population in 2002 to 51.3 percent in 2010 and 71.8 percent in 2015.

 

TRENDS

• Currently, forests cover 11 percent of the Moldova's territory.
• From 2005 to 2007 the percentage of forested land was constant, standing at 10.7 percent, while in 2008 that figure increased slightly, to 10.9 percent of the total area of the country.
• In 2008 the share of the population with constant access to improved water sources was 53 percent, including 92.2 percent of the urban population and 26.7 percent of the rural population. In 2009 the amount of people who had access to water sources further improved, reaching 55 percent of the population.
• If the pace of developing and ensuring access to safe water had been maintained to repeat the success of 2008-2009, the intermediate target for 2010 could have been attained.
• The share of the population that had access to improved access to sanitation in 2008 was 45.9 percent, an unsubstantial rise from 45.4 percent in the previous year. The slow advancement of this indicator suggests that the intermediate target for 2010 will not be achieved. The final target for 2015 also seems overambitious in the current circumstances.

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