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A 2004 review of sustainable policy and practice in the UK. ; Publisher PDF

A memorandum written by Tim Jackson on behalf of the Sustainable Development Commission to the Department for Trade and Industry on what should be included in Business Reviews, which require companies to report on aspects of their performance. ; Publisher PDF

The report assesses the performance of central UK government operations against the targets set out in the framework for Sustainable Operations on the Government Estate (SOGE). ; Publisher PDF

By taking a sustainable development approach, local authorities and their partners can play a leading role in delivering integrated environmental, social and economic improvements at the local level. ; Publisher PDF

Following the statement by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs on 22 July 2010 stating that Government wants "to mainstream sustainability, strengthen the Government's performance in this area and put processes in place to join-up activity across Government much more effectively", the Sustainable Development Commission's funding has been withdrawn by the Department of the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs effective from 31 March 2011. This Guide was a response to that announcement to help Governments – current and future – will the challenge of mainstreaming sustainable development. ; Publisher PDF

The new paradigm of sustainable development (SD) is examined, focusing on its consequence for European cities & the prospects for knowledge-based development. It is argued that the old model of industrial growth gave undue emphasis to science & technology, & that the paradigm of SD offers a policy framework for democratizing & humanizing science. It is further contended that the potential of the SD model will not be realized unless cities reassert their role as civilizing forces, which can be best accomplished by integrating local & global knowledge at the city & regional level. A model of knowledge-based development is presented & applied to the city of Delft, Netherlands. It is concluded that cities must become more responsible for locally-based knowledge, whether organizational or institutional, & that cities need to establish a knowledge infrastructure roundtable to identify & formulate strategies for strengthening their knowledge cultures. 2 Tables, 11 References. W. Howard

This document is the Sustainable Development Commissions response to inform the 'Code for sustainable homes'. ; The Government is developing the 'Code for sustainable homes' as a component of its sustainable communities agenda. Key environmental challenges, including climate change, water stress, materials use and waste, must be tackled if the proposed step change in housing supply is to be realised sustainably. ; Publisher PDF

Summarised in 'The next steps : an independent review of sustainable development in the English regions : executive summary'. ; The Sustainable Development Commission's independent review of the progress of sustainable development in the English regions. Responsibility for development and policy falls to regional development agencies, regional assemblies, government offices and the Greater London Authority. ; Publisher PDF

In modern economies, the advancement of well‐being of the citizens should be in an inclusive and sustainable way. In this respect, the sustainable welfare targets should exclusively include three main pillars: economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection. These pillars consist of qualitative and nonmonetary, as well as monetary and quantitative indicators to monitor. Although sustainable development today is well‐appreciated in most governments' agenda, yet it is generally not a trivial task to measure its progress especially due to multidimensional nature of some targets. In this article, sustainable development is measured by using a wide range of indicators within multidimensional perspective of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2015. Indicators cover wide spectrum of areas such as poverty reduction, health, education, gender equality, and environment. An index creation method is developed for measuring the level and the performance of countries' progress through achieving MDGs. The index score levels and the rankings of countries are compared with similar indexes developed by United Nations. Finally, countries are classified according to their achievements relative to other countries (which is measured by the index) versus their self‐achievement performances (in terms of improvement of the index over years) in a big matrix. Results demonstrate the importance of measuring country performances in both dimensions. Understanding the progress in MDGs can help settle on binding targets for achieving the country specific goals in economic and noneconomic areas and on the mechanisms to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030, which set amid on the success of MDGs. ; Post print

This report is the Sustainable Development Commission's summary of 250 commitments contained within 'The UK Government sustainable development strategy'. The list is not definitive, but provides a guide to the substantial number of new or restated commitments that the Commission view as significant to the delivery of sustainable development in the UK. ; Publisher PDF