Introduction

The Opportunity For Aligning Measurements Of ProgressThe Opportunity For Aligning Measurements Of Progress

For Governments: To improve decision making across horizontal and vertical divisions that until now have worked to different measures, offering a clear picture of multidimensional success.

For Business: To identify future business opportunities and risks, to strengthen stakeholder relations, to keep pace with policy developments, and to help businesses constructively engage with policy.

For Investors: To help understand the risks, trends, and opportunities in the capital markets and within their investment portfolio, helping them identify stranded assets and valuation bubbles.

For Communities: To improve the accountability and transparency of institutions that are making decisions that impact their lives.

For the Statistical Community: To improve the quality and scope of data, and help to support the use of models, forecasts, and analysis.

For Data Providers: It will create new markets and innovation opportunities.

For Civil Society: It will provide a tool for more accountable and transparent decision making, and can prompt a shift in policy.

For the Media: Aligning data and frameworks can help the media tell more informed stories of human development, and of how political decisions impact people at different scales

For Everyone: To generate more successful partnerships and multi-stakeholder fora on sustainability, different constituencies need to share a 'shared language' of success and therefore the metrics to measure it by.