SSI The Netherlands 1975 – 2008

The developments with respect to sustainability in The Netherlands have been measured along the 24 indicators of the (redesigned) SSI. It appears that The Netherlands has made little progress on the way to a sustainable society, across the years 1975 - 2008. The overall score of the SSI grew by nearly 0.5 points to 6.26 in 2008. While income per capita grew by more than 500%, the increase of the SSI is a mere 8%. The considerable increase in wealth has not been used for a substantial increase of the level of sustainability. At this pace it will take more than 250 years to achieve full sustainability.

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SSI Finland 1975 - 2008
Recently Statistics Finland decided to test the SSI for Finland over a longer period, from 1975 - 2008. The study will be done by Elina Kekkonen, in cooperation with the University of Helsinki. For more information, contact Elina Kekkonen
Simultaneously this test will be done by SSF for The Netherlands. The results will be published mid 2010. The tests can be a pilot for similar applications in other countries.

OECD
5 February 2010 a survey of sustainable development indicators was presented to the AMSDE in Paris, the Annual Meeting of Sustainable Development Experts of the OECD. This survey has been done by Geurt van de Kerk and Arthur Manuel, on behalf of ANPED, the Northern Alliance for Sustainability.

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Evaluation and redesign of the SSI
End 2010 already the third of two-yearly editions of the SSI will be published. Experiences and comments received necessitated a thorough evaluation of the current setup of the SSI. This has lead to a significant redesign of the SSI.

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The SSI-2008, the two-yearly update of the SSI, has been launched.

Since the first publication of the SSI in 2006, now the first update is available: the SSI-2008. It presents the level of sustainability of 151 countries and shows progress over a period of two years. The good news is that the world has made a small step towards sustainability in this period. The world average SSI-score improved by 0.1 points to 5.7, on a scale of 0 to 10. However, the bad news is that with respect to issues which may be of decisive importance for this century like renewable energy and emission of greenhouse gases, the world is still in decline.

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June 2009: the first SSI on regional level

During a two-day seminar in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, the first regional SSI, RSSI-Romania-2009, has been presented. This index has been developed for each of the eight development regions of Romania. In this very first edition special focus has been laid on North-West region.

The project has been realized by Green Partners, a consultancy firm in Romania, in close cooperation with all authorities involved. The RSSI-Romania-2009 will be updated every two years.

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How sustainable is your country?

Presume you are a politician and someone says to you: 'You are talking a lot about sustainability. Please tell me how sustainable your country is and how it compares in this respect to your neighbouring countries.' Until recently it would have been hard to answer that question. The Sustainable Society Index - SSI - will provide you with the right answer. The SSI shows at a glance how sustainable a society is: what is the distance to sustainability, what is going well and where bottlenecks are experienced. The index is available for 151 countries and is updated every 2 years.

See on the datasheet how your country is performing.

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Romania measures its sustainability

In June 25, 2008 the results have been presented of the survey with respect to the level of sustainability of Romania. A tailor-made index for Romania has been developed, SSI-Romania-2008, based on the Sustainable Society Index. The first copy of the publication Romania, on its way to a sustainable society, has been handed to Minister Attila Koródi, minister of Environment and Sustainable Development. Under the supervision of the Sustainable Society Foundation the survey has been done by two Romanian consultancy firms, Green Partners and VeraNatura, in close cooperation with the Romanian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MESD), the Romanian National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA) and the National Institute of Statistics (NIS).

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Moscow, 29 and 30 September 2008 OECD conference:
Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies

The Sustainable Society Foundation has presented the state of the art of the Sustainable Society Index and given an elucidation of the results of the recently developed SSI-Romania-2008.

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