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In July 2016, United Nations Members States decided to produce a Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) every four years with the aim to inform the high-level political forum on sustainable development when it meets under the auspices of the United Nations General Assembly to review the progress made on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Following an extensive open selection process, Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 2007 to December 2016, invited 15 eminent scientists to serve as part of this independent group, among them IIASA World Population Program Director, Wolfgang Lutz.

The latest GSDR titled The Future is Now: Science for Achieving Sustainable Development was received in person by the current Secretary-General, António Guterres, in his offices on 10 September 2019. The main lessons learned will be discussed at a meeting on 11 September, and ultimately presented at a high level political forum, the SDG Summit that will take place in New York on 24 September 2019, where the main topic will be the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The report will be published directly and serve as basis for discussions in the United Nations General Assembly as well as other high-level United Nations bodies. It will strengthen the science-policy interface and provide a strong evidence-based instrument to support policymakers in promoting poverty eradication and sustainable development.

During his long career, Lutz has worked on family demography, fertility analysis, population projection, and the interaction between population and the environment. He has conducted a series of in-depth studies on population-development-environment interactions in Mexico, several African countries, and Asia; authored a series of world population projections produced at IIASA; and has developed approaches for projecting education and human capital for all countries in the world by age, sex, and level of education. Lutz is the author and editor of 28 books and more than 200 refereed articles, including seven in Science and Nature. In 2008 he received an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, in 2009 the Mattei Dogan Award of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), and in 2010 the Wittgenstein Prize. With the latter he founded the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, a collaboration between IIASA, the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU).

The full report, The Future is Now: Science for Achieving Sustainable Development, can be found here: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/gsdr2019