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Report of the ASEAN Regional Assessment of MDG Achievement and Post-2015 Development Priorities
The UNDP and the ASEAN Secretariat’s work that resulted in this “ASEAN Regional Assessment of MDG Achievement and Post-2015 Development Priorities” demonstrates the ASEAN...
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Critical milestones towards coherent, efficient and inclusive follow-up and review at the global level
Meeting at a special summit at the United Nations in September 2015, world leaders committed themselves to an ambitious global agenda, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda...
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Gender-related Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (UN Women)
This list is compiled by UN Women, includes all indicators under SDG5 as well as indicators across the framework that explicitly refer to sex, gender, women and girls and/or are...
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Report of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Indicators.
In accordance with Economic and Social Council decision 2016/220 and past practices, the Secretary-General has the honour to transmit the report of the Inter-Agency and Expert...
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Goals, Targets and Indicators & Defining and Prioritizing Targets
This is a collection of 2 background papers prepared by Sonya Suter to explain: a) Definitions and key concepts for the post-2015 development agenda b) Potential criteria for...
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Improving forest governance in the Mekong region -- SOFOR working paper
This report identifies opportunities for regional activities to improve forest governance in the Mekong countries of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, Thailand,and Myanmar. The...
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Global indicator framework for the Sustainable Development Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
This annex is part of the Work of the Statistical Commission pertaining to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Millennium Development Goals: 2015 Progress Chart
This chart presents the final assessment of progress towards selected key targets relating to each goal. The assessment provides two types of information: progress trends and...
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World Development Indicators
World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI), 2015.
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Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation--Debt Sustainability Analysis
This Debt Sustainability Analysis continues to classify the risk of debt distress as moderate, but Lao P.D.R. is on the verge of a transition to high risk, with heightened...
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Climate Change and Its Impact on the Lao and Cambodian People
As climate change intensifies, so do the threats to the environment and ecosystems because they are affected by variations in the weather such as temperature, rainfall and river...
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Sustainable Development Goals Delivery: Planning for Implementation
The ENVforum held a two-day workshop on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) entitled, “Sustainable Development Goals Delivery: Planning for Implementation” for policymakers...
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Indicators and a Monitoring Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals
This report is offered as a contribution to the multi-stakeholder debate in support of the SDGs. It outlines how a comprehensive indicator framework might be established to...
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators proposed for Lao PDR
Localised Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators proposed for Lao PDR. 21 August 2016 and revised in the baseline data process, 30 March 2017. Linkages made to the...
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A new urban landscape in East-Southeast Asia, 2000-2010
East–Southeast Asia is currently one of the fastest urbanizing regions in the world, with countries such as China climbing from 20 to 50% urbanized in just a few decades. By...
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Making it happen: Technology, finance and statistics for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific
This 2014/15 report, Making It Happen, assesses the state of progress on the MDGs, but then considers how we can move towards the SDGs. The report is based on a series of...
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Failed Mechanism: How the CDM is subsidizing hydro developers and harming the Kyoto Protocol
FIVE YEARS AGO International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism, concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be used...
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The Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms: International Emissions Trading Clean Development Mechanism Join Implementation
The central feature of the Kyoto Protocol is its requirement that countries limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. By setting such targets, emission reductions took on...
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National REDD+ Strategies in Asia and the Pacific: Progress and Challenges
Reduced carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and associated actions to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks, collectively referred to as...
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Total greenhouse gas emissions (% change from 1990)
The EDGARv4.3.2 emissions dataset are calculated for the three main greenhouse gases per sector and country. For the energy related sectors the activity data are mainly based on...