It's an area which the U.N. concedes is "lagging far behind" the millennium commitments, with 2.5 billion people (including one billion children) still exposed to poor sanitation and one child dying every 20 seconds as a consequence, the U.N. estimates.
The Millennium Institute green investment model shows how new investments of 2% of GDP in just six G20 countries, in each of the next five years, could create up to 42 million jobs.