Accelerated progress required to achieve target on child mortality

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on access to food, safe drinking water and basic sanitation, and the use of modern energy are key to achieve the MDG target on child mortality, and may close the child mortality gap with the MDGtarget in Sub-Saharan Africa by a third. This is the conclusion of the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in their contribution to the World Bank’s Global Monitoring Report 2011.