IISD provides information and analysis that supports the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the 17 SDGs.

Our Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Knowledge Program seeks to enhance SDG implementation through our information sharing and dissemination work on the SDG Knowledge Hub and by convening and enabling SDG practitioners in the Geneva 2030 Ecosystem. We work at the local level to establish community indicator systems and assess how Canada can measure its comprehensive wealth to move “beyond GDP” as the fundamental measure of societal progress.

In addition, we have specific initiatives aimed at understanding the costs of action and inaction including, analyzing the cost to end hunger (implement SDG 2) globally, and valuing the true cost of pollution in Canada.