Using the colored icons below, select a goal to see the targets for southwestern Pennsylvania. Each target may also include known data sources, regional indicators, and local examples. You will also see the corresponding global target. As with all visioning projects, these continue to be a work in progress.
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Life on Land
Narrative:
The Community Needs Index hotspots overlaps more heavily with the heat and flood risk hotspots outside of the city.
For example, Neville Island, McKeesport, and Braddock all face higher levels of heat and flood risk as well as a heightened community need assessment. These three municipalities are located in redlined, industrial zoned communities with higher emission rates and higher areas of impervious surfaces. These conditions create heat islands and prevent the natural soaking of rainwater into the ground and slowly seeping into streams.
Conversely, inside the city, the heat and flood hotspots seemed to be more opposite the community needs index and in areas with more development happening such as the Southside and Strip District.
Regional Targets:
Ensure the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems and their services, with particular attention to forests and the remediation of brownfields. Preserve and expand contiguous green space and empower citizens with resources for better stewardship. (15.1)
UNSDG Target: By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements
Promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests, and provide permanent protection for the largest blocks of SWPA forests. (15.2)
UNSDG Target: By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally
Combat degradation of soil and landslides as a result of increased precipitation and extreme weather events brought on by global climate change. Restore degraded land and soil including land affected by drought and floods and strive to achieve a land degradation- neutral region. (15.3)
UNSDG Target: By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world
Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species (15.5)
UNSDG Target: Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species
Introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the priority species. (15.8)
UNSDG Target: By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the priority species
Integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into financial planning, local planning, development processes, procurement strategies, poverty reduction strategies and accounts. (15.9)
UNSDG Target: By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts