(a) Name: Programme of integrated environmental and economic accounting. (b) Brief Definition: Programme of integrated environmental and economic accounting leading to the regular publication of ...

There have been significant efforts at the international, regional and national levels to define, develop and use indicators to measure sustainability. Most significant of these was the United Nations ...

Encouraging development has been on the agenda of the United Nations for decades. Pointing to the United Nations Charter, which expresses the determination to “promote social progress and better ...

The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them. In 2015, the UN General ...

Each year, the United Nations Development Program produces the Human Development Report. This is a compilation of country-level data around education, health, and economic security that aspires to ...

Suggested Citation: "Appendix E: Sustainability Indicators." National Research Council. 2011. Sustainability and the U.S. EPA. Washington, DC: The National Academies ...

The CSocD is the advisory body responsible for the social development pillar of global development. It is one of the eight functional commissions established by the United Nations Economic and Social ...

The Asia-Pacific region is on course to miss 103 out of 117 measurable Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets by 2030, with environmental deterioration emerging as the most severe threat to the ...