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According to newest WWF "Living Planet Report" from 2010, it has been Peru,
which achieved the minimum requirements for sustainability as only country in 2007 with a HDI score of 0.806
and an Ecological Footprint of just over 1.5gha per person. Cuba has been the in this box in previous years
but exceeded the minimum requirements for sustainability in 2007 with an Ecological Footprint of 1.85gha (WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature 2012).
Scientists, government experts, NGOs or corporations are developing instruments to be able to measure and evaluate sustainability.
In the previous unit, you saw what indicators the UN uses
to measure sustainability and how the Swiss Confederation is evaluating
sustainability with the MONET Indicators. A set of indicators such as
this would be difficult to establish for every country and does not
necessarily say what the impact of each country is at a global level.
Therefore other ways have been suggested to measure sustainable
development at the level of the world.
One of the ways to do this is to cross the  Human Development Index (HDI) (For a longer discussion of the HDI, see lesson "Poverty")
with the Ecological Footprint, which
you encountered at the beginning of this block.
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