National Target 4: By 2020, public and private sectors and civil society organizations have promoted and implemented plans that consider ecological limits.
Often, there has been over-exploitation of various resources in Rwanda (land, water, forests, fisheries, wildlife) which has degraded the natural capital base. This undermines sustainable development. In a country like Rwanda which is highly dependent on natural resources for social and economic development with agriculture supporting about 70% of the population’s livelihoods and 33% of the country’s GDP (SoE, 2015), while tourism contributing up to 14.9% of the country’s GDP and is growing at a rate of 9.66% annually (Knoema, 2020), it becomes very important to commit and ensure the development agenda is within safe ecological limits.
Aichi targets