The EASE Environment & Sustainability (E&S) and the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committees have joined together to create a new SDG Checklist to help editors and publishers monitor and report on their progress in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
The Checklist is designed to provide practical, potential actions an organisation or individual journal might take. The actions are grouped under 4 high-level themes, with sub areas for easy navigation: strategy, environmental, EDI and communicating SDG knowledge.
The Checklist walks you through the themes, to enter and save your current status. You are encouraged to complete the Checklist at different times: as a baseline, then maybe annually to track your progress over time.
An organisation might complete the Checklist:
- At the Organisational level, and;
- For its journal portfolio as a whole (if there is consistency across titles), or:
- For any journals that want to track their own progress individually.
An editor would generally complete the Checklist at the journal level.
To use the Checklist you will need to create an account so that you can save your Checklists and return to edit or update them over time. Your data will not be shared with EASE or anyone else. EASE will only use the data in an aggregated and anonymized way to help us learn more about the way our community is progressing with actions of support the SDGs.