Sustainability Indicators: A Scientific Assessment - SCOPE 67

This report presents a scientific assessment of sustainability indicators developed to support decision making on environmental and development issues. It situates the work within international policy processes, including efforts following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, where the need for indicators to monitor sustainable development was established. The document brings together contributions from scientific, governmental, and institutional stakeholders to review existing indicator frameworks, methodologies, and applications across social, economic, and environmental domains. It examines conceptual approaches, aggregation methods, and measurement challenges, and compiles a wide range of indicators used in practice. The report emphasises interdisciplinary analysis and evaluates how indicators capture complex system interactions and inform policy and management processes.