The Scottish Government

In Choosing our Future: Scotland's Sustainable Development Strategy, published in December 2005, a commitment was made to develop a broad set of indicators that capture the different dimensions of sustainable development reflecting our social and environmental as well as economic goals.

Additionally, Choosing our Future stated that:

• the Executive will review the evidence on the options for additional and improved ways of measuring progress, and report by the end of 2006
• the Executive will invite the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) to produce a strategic assessment of performance and progress in 2008 and report publicly on its findings
• the Executive will commission an independent study of Scotland's footprint in 2008.