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Performance metrics for key sustainability issues

This report assesses leading metrics for measuring and reporting performance over time and across multiple spatial scales. It examines six critical sustainability issues: deforestation, biodiversity, water use, forced labour, poverty, and greenhouse gas emissions. The research supports sustainability systems in making data-driven outcome claims and provides insight into evaluating metric suitability. The report focuses on applicability of metrics and data sources, best practices, and associated limitations and trade-offs.
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  • Child rights and well being: general
  • Child rights: child labour
  • Climate change: general
  • Climate change: GHG emissions
  • Forests and ecosystems: general
  • Forests and ecosystems: deforestation and degradation
  • Freshwater and oceans: general
  • Freshwater and oceans: water quality and quantity
  • Livelihoods: general
  • Livelihoods: living income
  • Plant and wildlife conservation: general
  • Workers' rights: general
  • Worker's rights: health and safety
  • Worker's rights: wages/living wage
  • Global

Adapting to a landscape approach



  • Agriculture
  • Child rights and well being: general
  • Gender and Women
  • Climate change: general
  • Costs and benefits: general
  • Forests and ecosystems: general
  • Freshwater and oceans: general
  • Health and well-being: general
  • Indigenous peoples and community rights: general
  • Livelihoods: general
  • Plant and wildlife conservation: general
  • Workers' rights: general
  • Global

System element

  • Assurance: system
  • Capacity building
  • Data and information management
  • M&E: communicating impact
  • M&E: evaluating outcomes and impacts
  • M&E: learning and improvement
  • (-) M&E: performance monitoring
  • Stakeholder engagement and management
  • Theory of change

Focus sector

  • Agriculture

Sustainability outcome

  • Child rights and well being: general
  • Climate change: general
  • Costs and benefits: general
  • (-) Forests and ecosystems: general
    • Forests and ecosystems: deforestation and degradation
  • Freshwater and oceans: general
  • Gender and Women
  • Health and well-being: general
  • Indigenous peoples and community rights: general
  • Livelihoods: general
  • Plant and wildlife conservation: general
  • (-) Workers' rights: general
    • Worker's rights: health and safety
    • Worker's rights: wages/living wage

Focus geography

  • Global

Workstream

  • Indicator and metrics
  • Jurisdictional or landscape approaches

Format

  • Document
  • Webpage

ISEAL published document

  • Yes

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