Understanding/Context

The Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability is addressing the increasing complexity of the global sustainability landscape by creating an open data system to enhance decision-making and government accountability. The Council is developing a prototype data platform focused on food security, which will integrate sustainability metrics for targeted regions in Africa using datasets from sources such as the World Bank and Vital Signs.

• The global environment has become one of the most regulated sectors, with the United Nations Environment Programme reporting approximately 500 internationally recognized agreements signed over the last 50 years, covering atmosphere (61), biodiversity (155), chemicals/waste (179), land (46), and water (196).
• The Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability intends to build an open data system to improve decision support for integrated resource management and geospatial risk, which would increase government accountability to citizens and provide performance indicators for corporate responsibility.
• The Council has selected food security as the prototype for its data platform and plans to design an operational decision-support tool integrating sustainability metrics specifically for targeted regions within Africa.
• The proposed data platform will leverage several key datasets, including World Bank-funded official development assistance projects, human well-being and farm behaviour data from Vital Signs, ecosystem services data from Vital Signs, global and local climate/elevation/land-cover data, and regional agricultural security platform production data.

APA

World Economic Forum (n.d.). Understanding/Context. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GAC/2013/Connect/WEF_GAC_Measuring_Sustainability_2012-2014_Connect.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Understanding/Context. n.d. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GAC/2013/Connect/WEF_GAC_Measuring_Sustainability_2012-2014_Connect.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforumndunderstandingcontext, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Understanding/Context}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, url = {http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GAC/2013/Connect/WEF_GAC_Measuring_Sustainability_2012-2014_Connect.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }