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Global sustainability statistics are benchmarks for measuring the status of sustainability parameters. The following agencies provide baseline data for sustainability governance. They are just one form of data used for
sustainability accounting and are valuable for assessing trends and measuring progress.
This list provides sources of statistics at the ''global'' level of governance only.
* General lists
** Meadows, D.H., Randers, J. & Meadows, D.L. 2004. ''
Limits to growth: the 30-year update.'' Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, USA.
** ''The
CIAs World Fact Book''
** ''
World Data Center
The World Data Centre (WDC) system was created to archive and distribute data collected from the observational programmes of the 1957–1958 International Geophysical Year by the International Council of Science ( ICSU). The WDCs were funded and m ...
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** ''
United Nations Environmental Indicators'' Also publications on environmental statistics and statistical methods.
*** Water (water resources, water supply industry, waste water)
*** Air pollution (SO
2 & NO
x),
*** Climate change (greenhouse gas emissions; by sector(absolute & percentage); CO
2 emissions; CH
4 & N
2O emissions)
*** Waste (municipal waste collection, treatment, hazardous waste)
*** Land use (total land area by country, forest area by country, agricultural area by country).
** ''European Commission (
Eurostat
Eurostat ('European Statistical Office'; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in the Kirchberg, Luxembourg, Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. Eurostat's main responsibilities are to provide statis ...
)''
* Biodiversity
** Groombridge, B & Jenkins, M.D. 2002. ''World Atlas of Biodiversity.'' UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
* Energy
** ''BP
Statistical Review of World Energy''
** ''The
International Energy Agency
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation, established in 1974, that provides policy recommendations, analysis and data on the entire global energy sector, with a recent focus on curbing carb ...
''. Key World Energy Statistics
** ''
UN Energy Statistics Database''
* Fisheries
** ''UN
Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)french: link=no, Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; it, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura is an intern ...
''
* Forests
** ''UN Food and Agriculture Organization''
* Fertilizer
** ''
International Fertilizer Industry Association''
* Food and agriculture
** ''UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
FAOSTAT
The Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database (FAOSTAT) website disseminates statistical data collected and maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). FAOSTAT data are provided as a time-series from 1961 in mo ...
''
* Population
** ''
United Nations Population Division
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) is part of the United Nations Secretariat and is responsible for the follow-up to major United Nations Summits and Conferences, as well as services to the United Nations Econ ...
''
** ''
United Nations Database''
** ''
Population Reference Bureau''
** ''
American Association for Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...
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* Water
** ''
International Water Management Institute
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit international water management research organisation under the CGIAR with its headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and offices across Africa and Asia. Research at the Institute foc ...
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** ''
Stockholm International Water Institute
The Stockholm International Water Institute, SIWI, is an independent, not-for-profit foundation, which seeks to strengthen the governance of fresh water globally, regionally, nationally, and locally. Founded in 1991, SIWI performs research, buil ...
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** ''
United Nations Environmental Program
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. It was established by Maurice Strong, its first director, after the United Nations Conference on th ...
''
** ''
Global Runoff Data Centre''
Global Runoff Data Centre
See also
* Sustainability accounting
* Sustainability science
Sustainability science first emerged in the 1980s and has become a new academic discipline
Similar to agricultural science or health science, it is an applied science defined by the practical problems it addresses. Sustainability science focuse ...
* Sustainability governance
Specific definitions of sustainability are difficult to agree on and have varied in the literature and over time. The concept of sustainability can be used to guide decisions at the global, national, and individual levels (e.g. sustainable livi ...
* Sustainability
Specific definitions of sustainability are difficult to agree on and have varied in the literature and over time. The concept of sustainability can be used to guide decisions at the global, national, and individual levels (e.g. sustainable livi ...
* Sustainable development
Sustainable development is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals while also sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. The des ...
References
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