Rapid population growth, Economic development and International economic integration have intensified resources use, in every region of the world, human actions have directly or indirectly increased pressure on natural environment. Rapidly diminishing forests and coral reefs, increased consumption of scarce water and energy resources, desertification, the spread of invasive alien species, the breakneck rate of biodiversity loss, and the rising threat of global climate change highlight the urgent need to address the complex dimension of environmental change. Mitigating and reversing environmental change will require an understanding of its drivers. Those drivers are classified into six major categories related to six major elements of environment such as Agricultural production systems, Forests, Freshwater resources and ecosystems, Fisheries and marine ecosystems, Air and Water pollution, and Global Climate change.
The World cannot achieve Sustainable Development without mitigating those drivers of environment change. It is in this context that the United Nations (UN) has established recommendations considered as pillars of Sustainable Environment.
Taking Rwanda as a case study, using Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, the present research aimed to describe Sustainable Environment through its pillars and by comparing it to the Goals of Millennium Development, especially the Goals 7, targeting the role of Sustainable Environment on Sustainable Development. The research found that Sustainable Environment is a key for Sustainable Development. Rwanda has progressed in development because it has implemented those recommendations of UN and now it is a Country appreciated at UN level.
Development, Economics, Environment, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Sustainable Development, Sustainable Environment, Sustainability
