ABOUT ISO 37120 - INDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES

ISO 37120 provides cities with quantitative, globally comparable and independently verified local level data. Having standardized data enables any city, of any size, to measure and compare its social, economic, and environmental progress internally year over year, and also in relation to other peer cities locally and globally.

What is ISO 37120?

ISO 37120 is the first international standard for cities ever published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in Geneva. It was published in 2014 and since that time, the WCCD has been working with 100 cities worldwide in 35 countries to report data in conformity with the standard and become ISO certified. ISO 37120 includes 104 key performance indicators (KPIs) across 19 themes – all prioritized by cities to measure performance on city services and quality of life. These metrics are modest and “do-able” and for the most part, are already being collected by cities across the world, just not in a standard or “apples to apples” way.