The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer both challenges and opportunities for OECD countries. Mark Halle, Vice-President IISD-Europe, explores the issues faced by rich countries in implementing the SDGs and begins to unpack the practical meaning of “universality.” It is common in... Read more
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Tuesday, 31 May 2016 - 6:40pm
Friday, 6 May 2016 - 5:33pm
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer both challenges and opportunities for OECD countries. In this blog Mark Halle, Vice-President IISD-Europe , explores the issues faced by rich countries in implementing the SDGs and begins to unpack the practical meaning of "universality." It is common... Read more
Tuesday, 19 April 2016 - 4:20pm
After years of detailed deliberation, the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) finally signed off the global indicator framework for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at its 2016 47th Session. The final report of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on SDG indicators outlines the final... Read more
Friday, 4 March 2016 - 2:06pm
Measure What Matters partner Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) will be hosting an India roundtable discussion exploring the implementation challenge of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The roundtable will be on Thursday 10th March in New Delhi from 13.30 to 16.30, preceding the 2016 ‘... Read more
Monday, 22 February 2016 - 6:24pm
Dario Kenner, Visiting Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) and founder of whygreeneconomy.org, responds to the report ‘ Carbon and inequality: from Kyoto to Paris ’ by Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel. He argues that the growing interest in the link between individual carbon... Read more
Monday, 22 February 2016 - 3:57pm
Oliver Taherzadeh & Chris West, Stockholm Environment Institute Link to the full report In 2015, world leaders committed to seventeen Global Goals to guide international sustainable development efforts. Across these goals, water sustainability is a cross-cutting issue; its centrality to the... Read more
Thursday, 11 February 2016 - 6:03pm
Measure What Matters (MWM) and partners will be presenting our work at the GRI 2016 Conference, May 18-20 in Amsterdam, in a session on Aligning Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Official Statistics . So join MWM, GRI and up to 1,500 sustainability leaders from around the globe to exchange... Read more
Wednesday, 3 February 2016 - 12:52pm
The year of 2015 has been heralded as setting out a new roadmap for ‘sustainable development’ with both the SDGs and COP21 having delivered more clarity than we have had for a long time on the biggest challenges of our times. For progressive businesses, the Sustainable Development Goals represent... Read more
Monday, 25 January 2016 - 12:31pm
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) , based at Yale University has launched its 2016 report at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, highlighting new data and indicators on high-priority environmental issues. The EPI’s authors argue that aligning the EPI’s indicators with the SDGs... Read more
Thursday, 7 January 2016 - 12:04pm
The green economy is being put forth as a model to solve ecological and economic crises. But can it really? Thomas Fatheuer, Lili Fuhr and Barbara Unmüßig of the Heinrich Böll Foundation set out to explore the basic assumptions, hypotheses and proposed solutions of the green economy and to... Read more
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