Wednesday, July 20, 2016

SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS/SDG Index - SDSN Sustainable Development Solutions Network -Bertelsmann Stiftung

The SDG Index creates for the first time a measure of the SDG starting point for 2015 at the country level. It will help every country identify priorities for early action, understand the key implementation challenges and identify the gaps that must be closed in order to achieve the SDGs by 2030. The SDG Index also allows each country to compare itself with the region, with other counterparts at similar levels of overall economic development, and with the entire world, including the best and worst performers. Indeed we have constructed the various measures for each SDG so that they immediately indicate a country’s position on a 0-to-100 spectrum from the “worst” (score 0) to the “best” (score 100).

This report introduces the unofficial SDG Index and Dashboards and summarizes the preliminary results. The report reates for the first time a measure of the SDG starting point for 2015 at the country level. It will help every country identify priorities for early action, understand the key implementation challenges and identify the gaps that must be closed in order to achieve the SDGs by 2030. In addition to the full report, the datasets for the SDG Index & Dashboards.

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