Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. As our world is dealing with extreme poverty and inequalities, sustainability has become all the more important, and we realise the need to find newer ways to harmonise ecology with prosperity. The IFSPD Global Sustainability Report looks at this harmony from four pillars of impact – Environment, Economy, Society and Governance. The Report gauges the performance of 76 nations on each of these pillars, sub pillars, attributes and sub attributes; mapping the efforts of these nations in meeting their present needs without compromising the future.