This paper provides recommendations for developing accounting guidance under the Paris Agreement that can be applied to the variety of mitigation components in Parties’ NDCs. It outlines key decisions to be made regarding NDC accounting and reporting of accounting-related information and provides approaches to address those issues.
This report looks at key issues highlighted by the 2009 Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (“Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi” Commission), such as how to better include the environment and sustainability in our measurement system, and how to improve the measurement of different types of inequalities, of economic insecurity, of subjective well-being and of trust.
While GDP is the most well-known, and most powerful economic indicator, it can’t tell us everything we need to know about the health of countries and societies. In fact, it can’t even tell us everything we need to know about economic performance. This report looks at progress made over the past 10 years in collecting well-being data, and in using them to inform policies.
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.
Inclusive Wealth Report 2012: Measuring progress toward sustainability - Summary for Decision-Makers
The Inclusive Wealth Report 2012 is the first of a series of biennial reports on the sustainability of countries. It looks at the productive base of economies, based on capital assets – produced or manufactured capital, human capital, and natural capital.