How to Measure Sustainability? An Open-Data Approach

Determining quantitative sustainable development metrics can be difficult and requires a high effort in manual data acquisition on an institutional level, like the Word Bank or United Nations, without adequately reflecting reality. To overcome lack of transparent scalable method, which links local actions to global sustainability metrics, Sustainability Mirror connects Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with publicly locally available proxy SDG metrics. By applying approach Germany, we calculated eight regional level. Comparing our results two German cities, show that reflects economic ecological measures. Furthermore, demonstrate mirror’s scalability spatial resolution by method each county. Presenting proof-of-concept, link However, further research should include more social topics. Finally, are sure its implementations contribute continuous assessment temporal spreads changes