The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Multilateral Environment Agreements (MEAs) and other information related to the environmental drivers, state, pressures, impacts and responses underpin the methodology of the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) process. Additionally, the GEO captures linkages with socio-economic development which are useful for better contextualizing the environment and for understanding the nexus between the environment, people and the economy. The GEO also provides a summary of recommendations and policy implications based on the assessment. Measuring Progress is a derivative product of the sixth report in the GEO series. This publication complements the GEO and provides an overview of the current state of the environmental dimensions of sustainable development based on the SDG indicators - including the availability of statistical and spatial data, analytical methods and visualisations - and identifies knowledge and information gaps in terms of assessing programs.
