Global Goals That Work
Over the last decade, there has been a proliferation of sustainability indexes and frameworks. This report attempts to bring greater alignment between actors and better ways to measure progress using our planet's health and people's well-being as the yardstick, rather than Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or profit alone. Read the report to learn how sustainability is measured at government, business, and societal levels, and how it can be aligned to the triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) and the SDGs.
In Short
A set of agreed global goals offer a new opportunity to bring coherence and purpose to measuring sustainability across different levels – global, national, local, and corporate.
2015 will be viewed in history as the year that the world changed direction. For the first time, a set of goals were agreed by all countries – rich and poor.
The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a statement of public interest: our health and education, our homes and cities, our natural world, our safety, and livelihoods. These things matter – to people, to business, to government, to everyone.
The SDGs are also a universal project. Tackling climate change, inequality or unemployment is as relevant to Wall Street traders in New York as to food vendors on the streets of New Delhi. But the ultimate test of the SDGs is to improve the lives of the poorest people in the world.