BellagioSTAMP

SusTainability Assessment and Measurement Principles

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BellagioSTAMP is a new set of guiding principles used to measure and assess progress towards sustainability. They respond to widespread calls for greater harmony with the natural environment and for measures to secure the well-being of current and future generations.

A set of Bellagio Principles for assessing progress toward sustainability was first published in 1996 and subsequently used by local and international organizations in sustainability assessments. Though successful, new assessment methods and sustainability challenges overtook the original principles.

As a result, a newly-revised set has been prepared, which re-establishes the principles as a fundamental basis for assessment. As with the original, BellagioSTAMP has been established by a group of international experts meeting in Bellagio, Italy, organized by IISD and the OECD's Measuring the Progress of Societies initiative.

BellagioSTAMP has been presented (PPT - 4 MB) and launched at the 3rd OECD World Forum, Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life in Busan, South Korea on November 28, 2009.

BellagioSTAMP replaced the original Bellagio Principles in 2009. Participants at this meeting included those as shown in the photo below.




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