This report is the 4th edition of UNEP’s Measuring Progress series. It provides updates on the global progress made towards achieving the environmental dimension of sustainable development. As a special edition, it presents proposed disaggregations for the 92 environment-related SDG indicators and their relevance to national and sub-national evidence-based policymaking coupled with its potential impact on society, the economy and the environment.
Previous Measuring Progress reports stressed the need for improved data and highlighted the urgency of having disaggregated data for more targeted and localized actions and interventions. The current report outlines scientific, environment-related disaggregation that would lead to designing such interventions.
Chapter 1. Introduction and progress includes objectives of the report, background information on the importance of having disaggregation to better inform policies as well as the global progress on the environmental dimension of the SDGs.
Chapter 2. Methodology describes the methodology used to present the disaggregation at indicator level.
Chapter 3. Disaggregation of ecosystem-related goals focuses on presenting the indicators by ecosystem-related SDG goal. It includes the following goals: SDG 2, SDG 6, SDG 7, SDG 14 and SDG 15 (total of 42 indicators).
Chapter 4. Disaggregation of socio-economic goals focuses on presenting the indicators by socio-economic SDG goal. It includes the following goals: SDG 1, SDG 3, SDG 4, SDG 5, SDG 8, SDG 9, SDG 11, SDG 12, SDG 13 and SDG 17 (total of 50 indicators).
Chapter 5. Conclusions presents the conclusions of the report.