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Measuring Corporate Sustainability: Towards Accounting Fit for the SDGs

• Policy Brief: 28
• Code: RPB28
• Project Title: Sustainable Development Performance Indicators
• Programme Area: Alternative Economies for Transformation, Social Dimensions of Sustainable Development
• Author(s): Peter Utting

Despite several decades of concerted efforts to improve corporate sustainability reporting, the issues, indicators and targets that really matter for assessing performance often fly under the radar. This brief proposes a new approach to gauge whether companies are on a pathway that truly leads to a future consistent with the transformative vision of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

UNRISD Research and Policy Briefs aim to improve the quality of development dialogue. They situate the Institute’s research within wider social development debates, synthesize its findings and draw out issues for consideration in decision-making processes. They provide this information in a concise format that should be of use to policy makers, scholars, activists, journalists and others.

• Publication and ordering details
• Pub. Date: 22 Apr 2020
  Pub. Place: Geneva
  ISSN: 1811-0142
  From: UNRISD/UN Publications