This metric covers Sustainable Development Goal 12 of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Goal 12 aims to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. Its targets address efficiency in the use of natural resources; sustainable management of natural resources; food waste and food losses in production; managing chemicals and wastes to reduce their release into air, water and soil; reducing waste generation (recycling, etc.); corporate sustainability reporting; public procurement; awareness-raising about sustainable lifestyles; sustainable tourism; and wasteful consumption of fossil fuels.