Mayors Sustainable Development Indicators

The Mayors’ Sustainable Development Indicators service allows municipalities to measure their progress over time, and benchmark themselves to other comparable municipalities across the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The service reflects municipalities' performance across various themes like climate change, equality, and well-being.  

The service has been developed with our Finnish collaborator Benviroc, and is funded by Tekes (the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation).

The Radar chart below is an example developed for a municipality, showing their progress against each UN SDG theme.

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The service currently covers more than 45 indicators which have been selected in collaboration with pilot municipalities in Finland, Sweden and the UK.  Their data is benchmarked against over 750 municipalities in these countries. We welcome all interested municipalities in Europe to join. 

Becoming a Member Municipality has many benefits:

  • For Mayors, the Indicators give you an easily accessible overview of your Municipality’s performance and progress over time. The knowledge-sharing feature allows you to compare with and connect to other forerunners.
  • For Environmental officers – Through the long-running time series, the service keeps all sustainability information in one place. It is a cost-efficient solution for meeting internal and external reporting requirements and for identifying areas for further improvement. The continuous development of the service allows you to influence which indicators the service covers.
  • For Citizens – Through the Indicator service citizens gets access to sustainability information that is easy to understand, empowering them to engage in improving the sustainability of their neighbourhood. The indicators have been developed to facilitate sharing of information on sustainable development to citizens with varied experiences and backgrounds.

Development of the service started in 2017 to identify relevant sustainability indicators together with pilot cities in Finland, Sweden and the UK. The full service will be launched in 2018.

For more information, please contact Richard German.

 

Testimonials

Don't just take our word for it...

“Engaging Aether to support us to develop the first GHG Inventory System and first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the United Republic of Tanzania has been a rewarding experience due to their high level of professionalism, creativity, timeliness and value for money. We will definitely consider Aether in our future initiatives.”

Abbas Kitogo, Programme Specialist Energy and Climate Change, UNDP Tanzania

“We have been collaborating with Aether for several years, and our projects have greatly benefited from it. Aether staff are very knowledgeable, professional and flexible - and last but not least, very friendly and a pleasure to work with.”

Umhverfisstofnun, Environment Agency of Iceland

“Aether delivered training workshops and generated learning materials for our SSN members, providing technical content in a manageable and comprehendible format. We particularly benefitted from their extensive knowledge and ability to interpret the needs of our members into the training materials.”

Jennifer Anderson, Sustainable Scotland Network

“The Aether team were a joy to work with and I would recommend the consultancy - the service provided throughout the process was exceptional.”

Clare Bayley, Defra

“Aether's approach to couple innovative visualisation with high expertise manpower delivered valuable insights for our inventory work.”

Umweltbundesamt (Germany)

“The Aether team were a joy to work with and I would recommend the consultancy - the service provided throughout the process was exceptional. Where there were problems, they provided solutions. The team were working to very short time scales but were able to deliver a high quality piece of work within the specified time frame.”

Sefton Council - for the Merseyside Atmospheric Emissions Inventory

“Both the face-to-face training and the online version have been of high quality, with dynamic methods and a practical orientation that have allowed students to reach a solid knowledge base. The products have been delivered within the stipulated deadlines with an excellent quality and the team has always shown willingness to make adjustments according to the requirements of CONAF. We are very satisfied with the work. ”

Javier Cano Martín, Professional Unit for Climate Change and Environmental Services, CONAF (National Forestry Corporation), Chile

“The team at Aether works very professionally and communicates very well which makes working with them a pleasure. Outputs are delivered on time to high quality. The team brings the rigour of technical knowledge and expertise and finds innovative ways of communicating complex messages. I would be happy to recommend the Aether team to organisations working on analysing and presenting emissions information in the public domain.”

Fiona Glover, States of Jersey

“The professional service provided by your company was of very high quality and completed within agreed timelines.”

Matthew Dudley, UNFCCC Secretariat

“Chris was excellent to work with and always very pro active in making suggestions, taking work forward and applying his considerable technical knowledge in effective ways.”

Robert Vaughan, Defra Air Quality Team

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