Responsible consumption and production (GOAL 12)

The Sustainable Development Goals solution delivers a set of capabilities that help governments share progress made on Sustainable Development Goals.

We have less than eight years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Maps can help us better understand them and monitor progress.

From collecting trash to modeling where winds and ocean currents take it, young people in New Zealand get inspired to take action.

After 25,000 gallons of crude oil spewed into the Pacific Ocean, the Surfrider Foundation leveraged location to streamline data collection.

The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office used advanced GIS to carefully revitalize and build new oyster reefs.

Pennsylvania plants trees precisely to maximize water improvement using GIS.

A nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving water quality and a viable rural economy in upstate New York used imagery and GIS.

Ecological coastal units (ECUs) were created by USGS, Esri, and others for mapping and analyzing the world’s coastal regions.

A college developed a community-based service-learning project using GIS to fight food waste.

Beth Rogers, senior director of data science at Fruit of the Loom, explains how data visualization and analytics spurred the company's growth.

With a new app, built by the GIS team from San Juan County, New Mexico, residents more easily report illegal dumping sites.

Residents of Emerald Isle, North Carolina, use a GIS web app to find out when trucks collecting yard debris are in their neighborhood.

A Wisconsin county used GIS to identify and educate citizens to recycle correctly.

Michigan State University used ArcGIS technology to streamline its litter management system on its sprawling 2,000-acre campus in East Lansing.

An economy built on a straight line from production to landfill begins to curl toward sustainability.

An interdisciplinary group of researchers use GIS to fill a gap in renewable technology recovery policy.

The GIS user community is key to figuring out which beaches around the world are consistently fouled by plastic and how to clean them up.

Brierley Associates uses Site Scan for ArcGIS to quickly process imagery and produce visualizations that protect the integrity of the land.

Today’s leaders and professionals have the ambition and innovative capacity needed to adapt business practices to address climate change.

Explore place-based stories that examine the global impact of and increasing population on the planet and how we can be more responsible in our practices.

Learn the story of how one GIS analyst used satellite imagery is used to uncover illegal deforestation.

Esri Canada’s Guon Yue investigates what geography and the clothing business can teach us about the future of sustainability.

An app that estimates the ROI and net-zero contributions of solar panels on city buildings paves a path for CXOs to follow as they assess the solar potential of their own portfolios.

Esri's Alex Martonik explains why climate resilience prioritization is a necessity for businesses.

Esri's Kathleen Kewley explains how the use of geospatial technology in the construction industry is driving sustainability and performance.