UNEP Live SDG Portal Launched at UN Summit Meetings in New York

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The United Nations Environment Programme has launched a new portal to assist in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The interactive dashboard visualizes the multiple pathways between the Sustainable Development Goals, Targets and potential Indicators and shows how they are connected through the new SDG Interface Ontology.

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• Visit the UNEP live SDG portal

The design is aimed at supporting multiple policy targets with a small set of indicators that can track improvements and changes in outcomes and underlying causes.

The new portal also contains a highly innovative set of multilingual web intelligence tools that continuously assimilates information from worldwide online sources of news, social networking, Fortune 1000 companies and environmental organizations to provide users with an analysis of stakeholder perceptions and the ability to track emerging trends in key environmental areas.

The portal is part of the wider UNEP Live, which weaves together the environmental and socio-economic data of the complex world we live in to create a big picture, showing not only how challenges are interlinked, but how addressing one problem can bring multiple benefits in other areas.

Since its launch in 2014, UNEP Live has evolved from a source of data and knowledge into a distributed knowledge platform enabling access to live data and information about the environment all over the world. It now provides access to the latest UN data for all UN Member States, publications, maps, charting and mapping functionalities and other resources on the environment, society and the economy.

The platform - available in 90 languages - allows countries, researchers, communities of practice and other UNEP stakeholders to access and share data and knowledge from global, regional and national sources. Near real-time data of air quality indexes, volcanic activity, sea-level rise and spatial visualization of red-list species and freshwater treaties are already available. National data-sets from over 100 countries are also online. UNEP Live hosts seven Communities of Practice, with over 1,000 members.