Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer a detailed dashboard of goals, targets and indicators. In this paper we investigate alternative methods to relate the SDGs to overall measures of sustainablewellbeing that can motivate and guide the process of global societal change. Wedescribe what a SustainableWellbeing Index (SWI) that connectswith and complements the SDG dashboard might look like. We first investigate several options for howto construct such an index and then discuss what is needed to build consensus around it. Finally, we propose linking the SDGs and ourSWIwith a comprehensive systems dynamicsmodel that can track stocks and flows and make projections into the future under different policy scenarios.