the non-profit Social Progress Imperative. It combines indicators related to social welfare, equality, personal freedom and sustainability. The Earth Summits, Agenda 21, Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals In an attempt to promote human development, the United Nations supports decennial Earth Summits where the members to the UN bring together the best of humanity. In several rounds they discuss what are humanities biggest problems, quantify them and develop a plan of action on how to solve these problems. This plan of action is called Agenda 21an agenda to make sure humanity will still be around after the year 2100. Thousands of cities now have a local Agenda 21 and more and more companies and organisations also align their strategic plan with the strategic plan of Agenda21. With the approaching of the year 2000, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was compelled to develop something that existed in the private sector: setting out a long term plan, a mid term plan and a short term planning. This endeavour supports on Agenda21 and was named the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which ran from 2000–2015. The United Nations made a commitment to accomplish these goals by 2015 and thus make an attempt to promote human development. As the experience of this exercise was perceived successful, a follow-up program was developed and named as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Rethinking Human Development In 2020, the International Science Council (ISC) and the Human Development Programme (UNDP) have started an initiative on Rethinking Human Development exploring the multiple dimensions and viewpoints regarding what Human Development means in today’s world. Augmented Human Development Index Leandro Prados de la Escosura has an alternative dataset for human development, which he calls the Augmented Human Development Index. See also Human security International development Progress Social change References External links About Human Development on the HDR Office International development Development economics