1 June 2012: UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark launched the Portuguese version of “Triple Wins for Sustainable Development,” a UNDP publication highlighting eight examples of policies and programmes that advance simultaneously the social, environmental and economic pillars of sustainable development.

The launch took place during the award ceremony for Brazil’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), on 30 May 2012, in Brasilia, Brazil. The case study for Brazil, titled “making sustainable development happen,” highlights Brazil’s success in understanding poverty as a multi-dimensional problem that goes beyond a lack of income and demands comprehensive approaches to break cycles of exclusion, lack of opportunity, poor health and low incomes. It also notes that Brazil has benefitted from a combination of rapid economic growth; significant declines in income poverty and inequality; the attainment of near universal access to basic energy, water, and sanitation services; very high shares of renewables in electricity generation; and important social policy innovations.

“Triple Wins for Sustainable Development” was launched in English on 26 March 2012. [UNDP Press Release, 30 May] [UNDP Press Release, 1 June] [Publication: Triple Wins for Sustainable Development (in English)]