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Sustainable Development Indicators: Proposals for a Way Forward

» László Pintér, Peter Hardi, Peter Bartelmus, IISD, 2005. Paper, 42 pages, copyright: United Nations

This paper was commissioned by the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development in preparation for its expert meeting in December 2005. The paper’s key point is that sustainable development indicators have the potential to turn the general concept of sustainability into action. Today, however, we are far from achieving this potential.


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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms

Executive Summary

1. Background and context

2. Recent trends in the development and implementation of SDIs

2.1 Continuing interest in the development of aggregate indices

2.2 Interest in core sets of 'headline indicators'

2.3 Emergence of goal-oriented indicators

2.4 Making better use of indicators in performance measurement

3. Experience with the UNCSD's role in SDIs

3.1 General mandate and role

3.2 Overview of the CSD's indicator process

3.3 National level uptake and experience

3.4 Areas of SD inadequately covered in the current SDI core set

4. Potential, advantages and limitations of a common global SDI framework

4.1 A global framework for SDIs: need and purpose

4.2 Potential for building synergy: The Millennium Development Goal Indicators and the Systems of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting

5. Options for a global work program on SDIs

References

Annexes