- Reviewing progress
- Summaries
- All indicators
Summaries - all indicators
Changes in sustainable development measures since 1990 and 2003.
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Compared with the position in 2003, 43 measures show improvement, 9 showed deterioration, whilst 39 showed little or no change. A wide range of measures show improvement including renewable electricity, carbon dioxide emissions from
domestic energy use, water resource use, chemical water quality, waste and land recycling, farming management, crime, fear of crime, mortality rates, infant mortality
differences, road accidents, rough sleepers and homeless households.
Those measures showing deterioration since 2003 are specifically:
• aviation emissions of greenhouse gases
• shipping emissions of greenhouse gases
• fossil fuels used for electricity generation
• energy supply (consumption exceeding UK production)
• farmland bird populations
• community participation
• range of life expectancy between local authority areas
• ozone pollution in urban areas
• households living in fuel poverty
Also showing deterioration but not included in the
summaries is the background measure on carbon dioxide
emissions from electricity generation.
Updated: 30 July 2009