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United Nations
Organizations' Indicators
United Nations
Millennium Development Goals - September
2000
The goals focus the efforts of the world community on achieving significant,
measurable improvements in people's lives. They establish yardsticks for
measuring results, not just for develop-ing countries but for rich countries
that help to fund development programs and for the multilateral institutions
that help countries implement them.
Goals and indicators:
http://www.developmentgoals.org/
About_the_goals.htm
Millennium Indicators Database available
from the UN Statistics Division:
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_goals.asp
UN
Division for Sustainable Development
Commission
on Sustainable Development (CSD) - Indicators Programme
As part of the implementation of the Work Programme on
Indicators of Sustainable Development (ISDs) adopted by CSD at its Third
Session in April 1995, a working list of 134 indicators and related methodology
sheets were developed, improved and tested at the national level by the
world. Based on the voluntary national testing and expert group consultation,
a revised
set of 58 indicators and methodology sheets are now available for
all countries to use.
Programme
of Work of the Division for Sustainable Development on Indicators of Sustainable
Development
web site at: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/
indicators/isd.htm
Describes the work programme of the Division for
Sustainable Development on indicators and the various reports produced,
including those below.
Indicators
of Sustainable Development: Framework and Methodologies
- 2001
Contains
the revised set of 58 core indicators and methodology sheets.
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/
isdms2001/table_4.htm
Report
on the Aggregation of Indicators of Sustainable Development
- 2001
Background Paper No. 2 for the 9th Session of the Commission on Sustainable
Development. Division for Sustainable Development, United Nations, New
York
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/csd9-aisd-bp.pdf
Meetings
conferences and workshops on Indicators of Sustainable Development
Indicators
of Sustainable Development: Framework and Methodologies - 1996
United Nations, New York, August 1996 - 428
p. The original "blue book" used by the testing
countries from 1996-2001 and reported in their country
reports. Includes methodologies for 134 indicators in the CSD
Working List organized in the Driving Force - State - Response Framework.
- http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/
indisd/ english/ english.htm
- http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/
indisd/ french/ francais.htm
- http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/
indisd/ spanish/ espanol.htm
UN
Statistics Division
The UN Statistics Division (UNSD) compiles statistics
from many international sources and produces global updates.
Unrestricted free access is provided to selected global
datasets, such as the Millennium
Indicators Database, which presents 48 social and economic
indicators and related series by country and year since 1985, and the
Social
Indicators data set.
UNSD developed a list of environmental
indicators in collaboration with the Inter-governmental Working
Group on the Advancement of Environment Statistics.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/environment/indicators.htm
FAO
Indicators
of sustainable development:
Selected FAO activities, 1998
INDICATORS
FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF MARINE CAPTURE FISHERIES - FAO Technical
Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries - No.8, 1999
Use
of Indicators in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development, by
Jeff Tschirley, Sustainable Development Environment and Natural Resources
Service (SDRN), FAO Research, Extension and Training Division, March 1996
UNDP
UNDP Human Development Index
UNDP Human
Development Reports, issued each year, include human development
indicators for 175 countries, summarized in the Human Development Index
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/default.cfm
Human
Development Indicators 2002
United Nations Environment Programme
An Overview of Environmental
Indicators: State of the art and perspectives
J. A. Bakkes, G.J. van den Born, J.C. Helder and R.J. Swart, C.W. Hope
and J.D.E. Parker
RIVM/UNEP, 1994. UNEP/EATR.94-01
RIVM/402001001
The
GHG Indicator:
UNEP Guidelines for Calculating Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Businesses
and Non-Commercial Organisations prepared by Charles Thomas,
Tessa Tennant and Jon Rolls for the UNEP Financial Services Initiatives,
available as a pdf document at
http://www.uneptie.org/energy//act/
ef/GHGin/docs/GHG_Indicator.pdf , June
2000. The Guidelines provide a methodology to account
and report on greenhouse gas emissions, whereby information on fuel and
energy use readily obtained by companies, governments, NGOs and other
entities is converted and aggregated to compute GHG emissions. The step-by-step
approach is accompanied by worksheets.
SCOPE/UNEP
Reports on Indicators of Sustainable Development
SUSTAINABILITY
INDICATORS: Report of the project on Indicators of Sustainable
Development. Bedrich Moldan and Suzanne Billharz (editors).
SCOPE 58.
John Wiley & Sons, Chichester and New York, 1997
- 415 p.
Published on behalf of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
(SCOPE) of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Commission of the European Communities,
DGXI and DGXII, and Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation
and Nuclear Safety of Germany.
The SCOPE project collected, coordinated and synthesized
work on sustainability indicators from around the world. This book
assembles a rich diversity of perspectives and approaches, described by
more than 50 contributors from many different countries and cultures working
in a wide range of fields and organizations at all levels.
Other
reports from the SCOPE/UNEP project available in printed form from Earthwatch:
Report
of the Workshop on Indicators of Sustainable Development for Decision-Making.
Ghent, Belgium, 9-11 January 1995
UNEP/EAP.MR/95.1 - 128 p.
SCOPE
Scientific Workshop on Indicators of Sustainable Development.
Wuppertal, Germany, 15-17 November 1995
Charles University Environmental Center, Prague,
1996 - 69 p.
UN-Habitat
The Global
Urban Observatory of UN-Habitat includes an Urban Indicators
Programme.
Urban indicators are regularly collected in a sample of cities worldwide
in order to report on progress in the twenty key areas of the Habitat
Agenda at the city level. Data collection is conducted through local and
national urban observatories as well as through selected regional institutions.
The global urban indicators database 2 contains policy-oriented indicators
for more than 200 cities worldwide. Its results have been analyzed and
incorporated in the State of the World's Cities Report
2001.
Urban
Indicators:
http://www.unhabitat.org/programmes/guo/
guo_indicators.asp
Guide to Urban Indicators: http://www.unhabitat.org/guo/gui/guide.html
A Global Analysis of Urban Indicators: http://www.unhabitat.org/guo/gui/analysis.htm
World Bank
Indicators web page: http://www.worldbank.org/environmentaleconomics/
World
Development Indicators 2003: The World
Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's premier annual compilation
of data about development. WDI
2003 includes approx. 800 indicators in 87 tables, organized in six
sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets,
and Global Links. The tables cover 152 economies and 14 country groups-with
basic indicators for a further 55 economies. Published
April 2003 by World Bank ISBN: 0-8213-5422-1 SKU:
15422
Also available: WDI
2000, 2001
& 2002.
Indicators
of Environment and Sustainable 2003
(421KB PDF)
Little
Green Data Book. The Little Green Data Book is based on the World
Development Indicators, 2003 and is the result of close collaboration
between the staff of the Development Economics Data Group, and the Environment
Department. April 2003
http://www-esd.worldbank.org/lgb/green-2003-web.pdf
Also available for 2002.
Poverty
— Environment Indicators. Environmental Economics Series,
Paper No. 84.The World Bank Environment Department. Priya Shyamsundar.
January 2002
Expanding
the Measure of Wealth:
Indicators of Environmentally Sustainable Development
Environmentally
Sustainable Development Studies and Monographs Series, Number 17.
The World Bank, Washington, D.C., March 1997 - 110 p. For the methods
used to compile the wealth estimates, see Kunte, A., K. Hamilton, J. Dixon,
M. Clemens, “Estimating
National Wealth: Methodology and Results”, Environmental
Economics Series, Paper Number 57. The World Bank, January
1998.
Monitoring Environmental Progress:
A Report on Work In Progress
ESD - Environmentally Sustainable Development
The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1995
- 82 p.
World Health Organization
Health
in Sustainable Development Planning: The role of indicators
by Dr Yasmin von Schirnding, WHO, 2002
Environmental health indicators: framework and methodology,
Geneva, WHO, 1999, available
in pdf format
World Bank/UNEP/UNDP/FAO
Land Quality Indicators Initiative
Land
Quality Indicators and their Use in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural
Development
Proceedings of the Workshop organized by the Land and Water Development
Division, FAO Agriculture Department, and the Research, Extension and
Training Division, FAO Sustainable Development Department, 25-26 January
1996.
FAO Land and Water Bulletin 5, Rome, 1997 - 212 p.
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