Existing Global Metrics and related resources

Potential basic metric areas for 4YG Outcomes:

 http://2020.global.gaiaspace.org/global/mod/pages/world.php

Meshworks Breakthrough Conditions:

1. Women and children: political, economic, educational, medical parity, representation and freedom.
2. Transportation: shift to public, improved energy efficiency of vehicles, renewables.
3. Human security: poverty, hunger, vulnerability to disaster, refugees, empowerment of the poor, reduced corruption.
4. Media: keywords or phrases,
5. Systems Dynamics:
6. Values and Lifestyle:  a)The New Dream in Biosphere consciousness vs geopolitical consciousness has to do with Quality of Life, not individual opportunity. b) Elevate the happiness (the standard of living) of the poorest people to a level where they can afford to care about the environment. c)
7. Governance: Commitment to change, Legalization of Democracy
8. New Story:
9. Economy: 
10. Ecosystems: atmospheric CO2, 
11. Education:

  12. Food: vegetarianism, % of arable land devoted to feed grains or meat production, popularity of organic products  

  13: Biodiversity:

  14. Energy: EU has committed itself to 1. 20% renewable energy by 2020(2007),  2. convert every building, home, office, etc. into its own power plant in the next 25 years. All energy collected onsite, 3. $8BB to store this energy in the form of hydrogen, 4. Convert power grids to intergrids/smartgrids as a method of sharing energy across regions and even continents. When everyone becomes responsible for the energy that everyone uses, we approach the edge of biosphere consciousness. Every creature alive now or not yet alive has a right to their fair share of the energy that bathes the earth and sustains all life. 

Millenium Development Goals:

Goals- The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that all 192 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. They include reducing extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing a global partnership for development.[1]

The percentage of the world's population living in extreme poverty has halved since 1981. The graph shows estimates and projections from the World Bank 1981–2009. Most of this improvement has occurred in East and South Asia.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were developed out of the eight chapters of the United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000. There are eight goals with 21 targets,[3] and a series of measurable indicators for each target.[4][5]

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

▪                Target 1A: Halve the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day

▪                                  Proportion of population below $1 per day (PPP values)

▪                                  Poverty gap ratio [incidence x depth of poverty]

▪                                  Share of poorest quintile in national consumption

▪                Target 1B: Achieve Decent Employment for Women, Men, and Young People

▪                                  GDP Growth per Employed Person

▪                                  Employment Rate

▪                                  Proportion of employed population below $1 per day (PPP values)

▪                                  Proportion of family-based workers in employed population

▪                Target 1C: Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

▪                                  Prevalence of underweight children under five years of age

▪                                  Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption[6]

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

▪                Target 2A: By 2015, all children can complete a full course of primary schooling, girls and boys

▪                                  Enrollment in primary education

▪                                  Completion of primary education

▪                                  Literacy of 15-24 year olds, female and male[7]

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

▪                Target 3A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

▪                                  Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education

▪                                  Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector

▪                                  Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament[8]

Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality Rate

▪                Target 4A: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

▪                                  Under-five mortality rate

▪                                  Infant (under 1) mortality rate

▪                                  Proportion of 1-year-old children immunised against measles[9]

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

▪                Target 5A: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

▪                                  Maternal mortality ratio

▪                                  Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel

▪                Target 5B: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

▪                                  Contraceptive prevalence rate

▪                                  Adolescent birth rate

▪                                  Antenatal care coverage (at least one visit and at least four visits)

▪                                  Unmet need for family planning[10]

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases

▪                Target 6A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

▪                                  HIV prevalence among population aged 15–24 years

▪                                  Condom use at last high-risk sex

▪                                  Proportion of population aged 15–24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS

▪                                  Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance of non-orphans aged 10–14 years

▪                Target 6B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it

▪                                  Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection with access to antiretroviral drugs

▪                Target 6C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

▪                                  Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria

▪                                  Proportion of children under 5 sleeping under insecticide-treated bednets

▪                                  Proportion of children under 5 with fever who are treated with appropriate anti-malarial drugs

▪                                  Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis

▪                                  Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short Course)[11]

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

▪                Target 7A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources

▪                Target 7B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss

▪                                  Proportion of land area covered by forest

▪                                  CO₂ emissions, total, per capita and per $1 GDP (PPP)

▪                                  Consumption of ozone-depleting substances

▪                                  Proportion of fish stocks within safe biological limits

▪                                  Proportion of total water resources used

▪                                  Proportion of terrestrial and marine areas protected

▪                                  Proportion of species threatened with extinction

▪                Target 7C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation (for more information see the entry on water supply)

▪                                  Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural

▪                                  Proportion of urban population with access to improved sanitation

▪                Target 7D: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers

▪                                  Proportion of urban population living in slums[12]

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

▪                Target 8A: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system

▪                                  Includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction – both nationally and internationally

▪                Target 8B: Address the Special Needs of the Least Developed Countries (LDC)

▪                                  Includes: tariff and quota free access for LDC exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for HIPC and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA (Overseas Development Assistance) for countries committed to poverty reduction

▪                Target 8C: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States

▪                                  Through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly

▪                Target 8D: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term

Indicators

Some of the indicators listed below are monitored separately for the least developed countries (LDCs), Africa, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States.

▪                Official development assistance (ODA)

▪                                  Net ODA, total and to LDCs, as percentage of OECD/DAC donors’ GNI

▪                                  Proportion of total sector-allocable ODA of OECD/DAC donors to basic social services (basic education, primary health care, nutrition, safe water and sanitation)

▪                                  Proportion of bilateral ODA of OECD/DAC donors that is untied

▪                                  ODA received in landlocked countries as proportion of their GNIs

▪                                  ODA received in small island developing States as proportion of their GNIs

▪                Market access

▪                                  Proportion of total developed country imports (by value and excluding arms) from developing countries and from LDCs, admitted free of duty

▪                                  Average tariffs imposed by developed countries on agricultural products and textiles and clothing from developing countries

▪                                  Agricultural support estimate for OECD countries as percentage of their GDP

▪                                  Proportion of ODA provided to help build trade capacity

▪                Debt sustainability

▪                                  Total number of countries that have reached their HIPC decision points and number that have reached their HIPC completion points (cumulative)

▪                                  Debt relief committed under HIPC initiative, US$

▪                                  Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services

▪                Target 8E: In co-operation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries

▪                                  Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis

▪                Target 8F: In co-operation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications

▪                                  Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 population

▪                                  Personal computers in use per 100 population

▪                                  Internet users per 100 Population[13]

Mark B’s buckets:

End wars

Transform industry to be regenerative instead of extractive

Transform dominant institutions from domination to cooperation

Transform economic system into one that works for all & us of benefit to all living things

Create groundwork to restore soil, forests, ocean and atmosphere.

See distinct change for the matter re: mass extinction

Grow sense of global citizenship

End extreme poverty- vision/fund/implement MDG 2025

Create a metric for incremental improvement that gives hope

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Global Peace Index: http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/#/2009/scor/RU

Well worth the time to investigate. See especially the GPI indicators, Related Indicators (on the left), also the panel of experts: http://www.visionofhumanity.org/info-center/gpi-international-expert-panel/

New Economy Network: http://neweconomynetwork.org/

Check out Executive committee:

Interim Executive Committee

▪                Gus Speth- Senior Fellow, Demos

▪                David Brodwin- Co-founder, American Sustainable Business Council

▪                John Cavanagh- Director, Institute for Policy Studies

▪                David Levine- Director, Environmental Health Fund

▪                Heerad Sabeti- Co-founder, Fourth Sector Network

▪                Betsy Taylor- Co-founder, 1 Sky

▪                David Wood- Director, Institute for Responsible Investment

Happy Planet Index: http://www.happyplanetindex.org/

New Economics Foundation, If you have questions about nef’s centre for well-being and our work, please write to us at well-being@neweconomics.org or call us on: 020 7820 6300.

Earth Charter Initiative: http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/ 

Genuine Progress Indicators: http://www.rprogress.org/index.htm

Center for Sustainable Economy: http://www.sustainable-economy.org/

http://gapminder.org: Impressive graphics!

Some well-respected names we might want to consult, as we create these criteria: (from Mark Bachelder. please feel free to add names)