Sustainable management of the Global Commons– the climate system, ozone layer, land biosphere, oceans, and ice sheets & glaciers – requires data and metrics to guide better policies. To this end, the 2022 Global Commons Stewardship (GCS) Index assesses both countries’ domestic impacts on the Global Commons and the impacts embodied in trade and consumption (so-called “international spillovers”).
Global sustainability cannot be achieved without addressing international consumption and production practices. This summer, the Center will introduce a new index of environmental impacts from economic activity, a project made possible by generous support by Center Advisory Board Members Roberta Gordon and Marshall Ruben. The goal of the project is to create metrics aggregated into a sustainability index, which will enable financial markets to achieve global sustainability goals.
