Joke Waller Hunter reported that Chapter 40 of Agenda 21 calls
for the development of indicators for sustainable development.
Several organizations and governments have been working on
developing indicators for sustainable development, however, this
work has not been coordinated. The Statistical Division of the
United Nations (UNSTAT) and the DPCSD have developed a framework
of indicators that could form the basis for a CSD programme of
work to be considered at its third session. The framework is
based on work done by UNSTAT, UNEP, the World Bank, OECD, the
New Economics Foundation/WWF, other international organizations
and national governments. The indicators that will be proposed
intend to monitor progress at a national level towards
sustainable development through the implementation of Agenda 21.
The indicators will be presented in a Driving Force -State -
Response framework. They will be grouped in categories covering
economic, social, institutional and environmental issues. The
goal is to have a full set