Update on Indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals
The last remaining componenet of the Sustainable Development Goals still to be decided is on Indicators. This past week in Bangkok, Thailand, the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on the Sustaianble Development Goals (IAEG-SDGs) met to finalise a data framework that can be used to measure progress towards the acheivement of the 17 universal goals and 169 targets.
To read an overview of the deliberations and the 224 indicators that have been proposed for the SDGs, please see the below summary provided by IISD: http://sd.iisd.org/news/iaeg-sdgs-sets-workplan-for-finalizing-indicators/