International Institute for Sustainable Development

The International Organization for Standardization has adopted a new standard for managing commitments to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The standard gives organisations a formal framework for setting, tracking and reporting their contributions to the SDGs. Sustainability and corporate responsibility observers are expected to scrutinise how companies and institutions implement it.

The International Institute for Sustainable Development has published an analysis examining the Global Stocktake, the UN process for assessing worldwide progress on climate action, with a focus on health impacts. It connects rising temperatures, air pollution and extreme weather to public health risks, and underscores calls for health to feature more prominently in international climate negotiations and national policy responses.