ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS AS IMPACT TRACKER

Abstract

Sustainability indicators have been used widely by many organisations to track the impact of human activities toward the earth. Measuring the sustainability was like trying to measure the immeasurable. In this research, fve sustainability indicators studied were Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI), Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Bandar Lestari-Environmental Awards, Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) and, University of Indonesia Greenmetric (UI Greenmetric). Their roles, usage and impacts were discussed thoroughly in this paper. As overall, researchers focus on measuring sustainability with a great cooperation from various institutions and organisations members were a lot of help to accomplish the mission of indicators.