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If the Paris Agreement is to be implemented successfully, it is necessary that all actors step up their actions, including non-state actors such as businesses, cities, regions, and investors. While transparency is crucial, it is still largely missing from the drive to report on current actions and scale them up. The Climate Initiatives Platform (CIP) is a vital transparency tool for international cooperative climate initiatives (ICIs). Nearly 250 initiatives, driven mainly by non-state actors, are currently displayed by the CIP. More than 50 data points for each ICI are provided. In addition, CIP has become the exclusive data provider for ICIs to the UNFCCC Global Climate Action portal, NAZCA, and CIP data are used for several climate assessments, including UN Environment’s Emissions Gap Report.

This report, The development and use of biodiversity indicators in business: an overview , builds on a suite of work focused on providing guidelines and tools specifically for business, and it is intended to contribute to the ongoing dialogue on biodiversity indicators within Europe and beyond.

This paper reviews debates and practice around the conventional and alternative measures of economic well-being. Evaluating the major contending measures – the Genuine Progress Indicator, Human Development Index, Happiness/life evaluation index, Happy Planet Index, the OECD’s Better Life Initiative dashboard – the paper argues that the GPI is the only indicator that incorporates care for human beings and care for the environment in a single framework and is therefore best suited to guide policy in responding to the major challenges of our time – rising inequality, climate change, environmental destruction.

The Inclusive Wealth Report 2014 (IWR 2014) aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the status of capital stocks of three key assets for nations. These assets are tracked over the past 21 years, and the sustainability implications of trends and changes in these assets are appraised.

Current measures of economic progress, like GDP, are a poor indicator of economic progress, environmental sustainability and human well-being. This edition of the Inclusive Wealth Report presents the Inclusive Wealth Index, which looks at the manufactured, human and natural capital of 140 countries, and assesses the changing health of these assets over a quarter of a century – a massive dataset that covers almost an entire generation.