Sustainability Monitor for the Netherlands

Jan Pieter Smits/Rutger Hoekstra (@Rutger_Hoekstra)

Statistics Netherlands

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Introduction

• Government request – Led by Statistics Netherlands– Cooperation with three policy institutes

• Editions in 2009 and 2011• Conceptually sound and policy relevant

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• Aim: Create a conceptually sound system • Methodology of the Task Force for Measuring Sustainable

Development (TFSD)• Stakeholder participation

– Scientific review (2009) – Advisory board– International discussion in the TFSD

Conceptually sound

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• Aim: Create a policy relevant system • Stakeholder participation

– Cooperation with Dutch policy institutes– Policy reviews by various ministries– Conference (2009)

• Outcome: 3 consistent products (website, brochure, book)

Policy relevant

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• Conceptual categorisation– Here and now (human well-being)

– Later (capital)

– Elsewhere (transboundary impacts)

• Thematic categorisation (14 themes)– Education and knowledge, climate and energy, well-being, inequality,

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TFSD Measurement System

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Website (conceptual)

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Press

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“Living at the expense of the future”

Website (thematic)

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Website (indicator view)

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• Targets• Sustainable development at different scales

– Companies: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)– Industry-level: Satelite accounts– Other: County, City?

• Trade-offs and win-wins• Models

Room for improvement

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• Task Force for Measuring Sustainable Development (TFSD) (UNECE/Eurostat/OECD)

• E-frame (ISTAT/CBS) (FP7 programme)– Final conference in the Netherlands (February 2014)

• Rio+20/Post 2015

International initiatives

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