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.

Introduction

The Opportunity For Aligning Measurements Of ProgressThe Opportunity For Aligning Measurements Of Progress

For Governments: To improve decision making across horizontal and vertical divisions that until now have worked to different measures, offering a clear picture of multidimensional success.

For Business: To identify future business opportunities and risks, to strengthen stakeholder relations, to keep pace with policy developments, and to help businesses constructively engage with policy.

For Investors: To help understand the risks, trends, and opportunities in the capital markets and within their investment portfolio, helping them identify stranded assets and valuation bubbles.

For Communities: To improve the accountability and transparency of institutions that are making decisions that impact their lives.

For the Statistical Community: To improve the quality and scope of data, and help to support the use of models, forecasts, and analysis.

For Data Providers: It will create new markets and innovation opportunities.

For Civil Society: It will provide a tool for more accountable and transparent decision making, and can prompt a shift in policy.

For the Media: Aligning data and frameworks can help the media tell more informed stories of human development, and of how political decisions impact people at different scales

For Everyone: To generate more successful partnerships and multi-stakeholder fora on sustainability, different constituencies need to share a 'shared language' of success and therefore the metrics to measure it by.