JRC Statistical Audit of the Sustainable Development Goals Index and Dashboards
JRC Statistical Audit of the Sustainable Development Goals Index and Dashboards

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Published: 2019

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ISBN-13: 9789276089957

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In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 associated targets. All 193 United Nations member states have committed to achieve sustainable development across its three dimensions – economic, social, and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner. In order to assist countries in measuring their progress towards the achievement of the SDGs, Bertelsmann Stiftung and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) developed the Sustainable Development Goals Index and Dashboards (SDG Index) in 2016. Since then, the SDG Index has been annually updated and presently covers 162 countries. The European Commission’s Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) was invited by the SDSN to audit the 2019 edition of the SDG Index which will be launched on the sidelines of the 2019 United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. The audit presented herein aims to contribute to ensuring the transparency of the SDG Index methodology and the reliability of the results. The report touches upon data quality issues, the conceptual and statistical coherence of the framework and the impact of modelling assumptions on the results. The fact that the SDGs are universal and highly diverse in nature makes the work of aggregating into a single number quite challenging from a statistical point of view. Nevertheless, the SDG Index is a remarkable effort of synthetizing the 17 SDGs into a single measure. The index ranks are robust enough, allowing meaningful conclusions to be drawn from the index.

JRC Statistical Audit of the Sustainable Development Goals Index and Fashboards
JRC Statistical Audit of the Sustainable Development Goals Index and Fashboards

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Published: 2019

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ISBN-13: 9789276085607

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In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 associated targets. All 193 United Nations member states have committed to achieve sustainable development across its three dimensions – economic, social, and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner. In order to assist countries in measuring their progress towards the achievement of the SDGs, Bertelsmann Stiftung and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) developed the Sustainable Development Goals Index and Dashboards (SDG Index) in 2016. Since then, the SDG Index has been annually updated and presently covers 162 countries. The European Commission’s Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) was invited by the SDSN to audit the 2019 edition of the SDG Index which will be launched on the sidelines of the 2019 United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. The audit presented herein aims to contribute to ensuring the transparency of the SDG Index methodology and the reliability of the results. The report touches upon data quality issues, the conceptual and statistical coherence of the framework and the impact of modelling assumptions on the results. The fact that the SDGs are universal and highly diverse in nature makes the work of aggregating into a single number quite challenging from a statistical point of view. Nevertheless, the SDG Index is a remarkable effort of synthetizing the 17 SDGs into a single measure. The index ranks are robust enough, allowing meaningful conclusions to be drawn from the index.

JRC Statistical Audit of the Equal Measures 2030 SDG
JRC Statistical Audit of the Equal Measures 2030 SDG

Author: Eleni Papadimitriou

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Published: 2019

Total Pages: 26

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The Equal Measures 2030 (EM2030) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Gender Index, launched as a pilot version with six countries in 2018, is a tool that gender advocates can use to frame their influencing on the gender equality elements of the SDGs. The 2019 version is the first global version including data of 129 countries. This audit delves into data quality issues, the conceptual and statistical coherence of the framework and the impact of modelling assumptions on the results to ensure the transparency and reliability of the Gender Index. The conceptual framework of the index covers 14 out of the 17 SDGs, with focus on the gender aspect: poverty, no hunger, health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, energy, work, industry, innovation and infrastructure, inequality, sustainability, climate, peace and justice, partnerships.

Sustainable Development Report 2021
Sustainable Development Report 2021

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-10-14

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1009116541

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The Sustainable Development Report 2021 features the SDG Index and Dashboards, the first and widely used tool to assess country performance on the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. The report analyses and outlines what needs to happen for the Decade of Action and Delivery of the SDGs. In order to build back better following the Covid-19 pandemic, especially low-income countries will need increased fiscal space. The report frames the implementation of the SDGs in terms of six broad transformations. The authors examine country performance on the SDGs for 193 countries using a wide array of indicators, and calculate future trajectories, presenting a number of best practices to achieve the historic Agenda 2030. The views expressed in this report do not reflect the views of any organizations, agency or programme of the United Nations. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Sustainable Development Report 2020
Sustainable Development Report 2020

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-06-30

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ISBN-13: 1108998488

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The Sustainable Development Report 2020 features the SDG Index and Dashboards, the first and widely used tool to assess country performance on the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. The report shows that all countries need to strengthen the resilience of their health systems and prevention programs. Some countries have outperformed others in containing the Covid-19 pandemic, yet all remain at serious risk. The report frames the implementation of the SDGs in terms of six broad transformations. The authors examine country performance on the SDGs for 193 countries using a wide array of indicators, and calculate future trajectories, presenting a number of best practices to achieve the historic Agenda 2030. The views expressed in this report do not reflect the views of any organizations, agency or programme of the United Nations. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Sustainable Development Report 2022
Sustainable Development Report 2022

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-10-06

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1009210084

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Contains insights on current issues in research on sustainable development, featuring the SDG Index and Dashboards.

Sustainable Development Report 2022
Sustainable Development Report 2022

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-10-06

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1009210076

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The Sustainable Development Report 2022 features the SDG Index and Dashboards, the first and widely used tool to assess country performance on the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. In a context of multiple crises, the report analyzes and outlines how the SDGs can be used as a roadmap for more sustainable societies by 2030 and beyond. In particular, this year's edition underlines the importance of international financing mechanisms for addressing lack of fiscal space in poorer countries and promoting sustainable investments into physical and human infrastructure. The authors examine country performance on the SDGs for 193 countries using a wide array of indicators, and calculate future trajectories, presenting a number of best practices to achieve the historic Agenda 2030. The views expressed in this report do not reflect the views of any organization, agency or program of the United Nations. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Mapping Sustainability Measurement
Mapping Sustainability Measurement

Author: Agnieszka Gehringer

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024-02-03

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 3031473825

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This book explores modern approaches to sustainability and its measurement. It thoroughly reviews a wide range of existing sustainability measurement systems. Accordingly, the book documents the state of progress toward sustainability measurement by first assessing the past development of wellbeing measurement going beyond GDP and synthesizing the various conceptual approaches to sustainability and its dimensions. It then explores crucial methodological aspects that stay at the core of constructing a sound index system. In the main part of the book, we map the available indices or index systems, their conceptual and methodological backgrounds as well as approaches, which have not yet resulted in an index, but have the potential to contribute to a better understanding of sustainability. More specifically, the book assesses the scope, motivation, and potential usage of each index. It also documents their limitations and drawbacks. This mapping exercise is useful for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners as it offers a detailed and compact overview of where we are and what we still need to account for when measuring sustainability.

The European Union and Global Environmental Protection
The European Union and Global Environmental Protection

Author: Mar Campins Eritja

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1000284670

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This book examines how the EU can be a more proactive actor in the promotion of the principles of sustainability and fairness from a legal environmental perspective. The book is one of the results of the research activity of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Environmental Law (2017-2020) funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme. The European Union and Global Environmental Protection: Transforming Influence into Action begins with an introduction of the key EU competences, instruments and mechanisms, as well as the current international challenges at the EU level. It then explores case study examples from four regulated fields: climate change, biodiversity, multilateral trade, unregulated fishing, and access to justice; and four unregulated areas: mainstreaming of the Sustainable Development Goals in EU policies, and environmental justice, highlighting the extent to which the EU might align with international environmental regimes or extend its normative power. This volume will be of great relevance to students, scholars, and EU policy makers with an interest in international environmental law and policy.

Global Labour in Distress, Volume II
Global Labour in Distress, Volume II

Author: Pedro Goulart

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-01

Total Pages: 711

ISBN-13: 3030892654

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This book, the second of two volumes, explores the transformations to the labour market observed since the offi cial end of the Cold War in 1991. This period is defi ned by the retreat of the state and a move towards more market-based economies, followed by a State comeback with the Great Recession. These bumpy decades for labour and changing labour policies are analysed thematically. The second volume focuses on labour earnings and inequality, underemployment, (in)decent work, and labour market policies. This book aims to examine how labour institutions, both in developed and developing countries, have responded to the challenges faced over the last 30 years. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in labour economics, political economy, and development economics.