Here is an essay I wrote as part of a course I’m doing, the Professional Diploma in Foundations of Sustainable Development at UCD.
It expands upon the premise of my book, You and the Global Goals, which suggests actions individuals could take for each indicator in the SDSN’s SDG Index.
This paper explores the feasibility and merit of measuring progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals at the individual level in a quantitative way, according to the suggested actions in You and the Global Goals.
It also considers a methodology a to create a composite index of these indicators, to offer individuals an overall score of their own progress toward achievement of the Global Goals, drawing upon the methodology of the original SDG Index. For the 0-100 index score, 100 would indicate full achievement of the Goals at the individual level. It also allows such progress to be expressed in a visual manner for individuals, via the colour-coded Dashboards used by the SDG Index.