The targets for the seventh United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) sound impressive. This MDG focuses on ensuring environmental sustainability. Eight goals were adopted by the international community at the UN Millennium Summit, held in 2000, in a bid to raise living standards around the globe by 2015. However, Muna Lakhani, a member of the South-Africa based environmental action group, Earthlife Africa, has concerns about the targets for MDG seven - and indicators used to measure progress towards these targets.