Monitoring, reporting & assessing impacts and progress

To make sense of emerging change, create assessment and reporting systems for transparency and monitoring of impacts, growth of the commons and compliance with sustainability goals and targets.

[To  make real impacts transparent, to identify emerging behaviors and  possible breakpoints, we must keep track of how things evolve and  improve. We must develop new methods of assessment and reporting, and  new monitoring systems so that businesses, investors, consumers,  citizens, regulators and other stakeholders can make informed decisions.  We must create new metrics that measure each part's demand on and contribution to the whole now and in the future, and not just local immediately visible effects. We must find ways to measure the health and growth of the commons, and make the processes and results visible and understandable, and part of conversations.

Trends & Existing Initiatives
Basic  research is being done, and large changes in starting assumptions for  it are readily apparent today, so how these new directons in  sustainabilty science progress may be heavily dependent on the success  of the commons movement in demanding the work be done. ++

Problem  for the institutions that relied on the old sustainabilty metrics, such  as the traditional systainable and ethical investment communities. ++  

Comprehensive  sustainabilty reporting and institutional systainabilty "dashboards"  for informing investors, the public and policy makers, today, and  tomorrow. ++]

References: 
  • <<The various targets and reporting methods>>

Dynamics at work: <<Review Jessie>>
  • It    takes new methods and new metrics to make the real impacts of   businesses transparent so business, investors, consumers and  regulators   can all make intelligent choices.    New science has  developed that   makes true physical measures of the impacts of the  complex supply and   service chains of business that would permit  standard measures of   business economic impact on our future, for  example, so that a  financial  future balance sheet could be compared  with normal annual  financial  balance sheets of business.    The  ability to measure the  impacts on the  future of the business can also  indicate the  profitability to the whole  of different kinds of  investment, creating a  new kind of financial  commons guided by  transparent policies for whole  system profitability. 

  • This    work is in the area of Comprehensive Sustainability Reporting (CSR).    Much work remains, but accurate comprehensive physical measures will  prove a better way to learn about what will make our responses   profitable for the future of businesses, investors, consumers."

Who?: Local    and regional communities and  stakeholders -the people, business    community, Insurance sector, Finance  sector, Investors, legislators   & regulators, consultants,  economists, reporting & standards   organizations

Action:
  • Promote transparency and reporting for monitoring and evaluation systems.  
  • Create  metrics to measure impacts and outcomes, that measure each part's  demand on and contribution to the whole now and on our future, and not just local immediately visible effects, as part of Comprehensive Sustainability Reporting (CSR), and compliance to SDGs, targets and indicators  
  • Provide open access to knowledge, data, and  information to allow comparative studies and the correction of   misconceptions. 
  • Promote    a general knowledge commons, and creative commons, allowing all to   see  inside the silos of others so their different views of common  subjects,  their values and ideas, can be understood and connected. 
  • Share   methods for recognizing irreversible  processes and anticipating  their   tipping points of transformation as   well as recognizing seeds  of   change and anticipation of limits of change. 
  • Set   up processes to ensure that what follows is right and continues to be   right, exploring means of confirmation, and a meta-process of  reflection  and  evaluation of measures and methodologies Enable trial and error and the possibilities  to readjust.
  • Respond    to the abuse of   misleading and selective metrics and evaluation    systems, defining   subjects with only selective variables, and    generally assure the   fidelity of information to its subjects and   their  changes.  
  • Apply   rules of fiduciary duty to the speach of corporations  and  lobbyists,    to be   liable for being misleading about the true   interests of  their     investors, customers, employees and other   stakeholders, as  having     natural concerns for their own and their   society's  wellbeing. See Jay   Youngdahl's expansion of fiduciary law  at  Harvard.
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