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We advise governments, business and civil society to support a sustainable world through their activities. Based on scientific knowledge and tools the centre supports the integration of environmental, social and cultural concerns into decision making at the level of national governments, regional and local authorities, the private sector and consumer groups. Learn more...
China is the largest consumer market. Therefore, the potential to promote resource efficiency in China is enormous. The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) initiated the Task Force on Sustainable Consumption and Green Development. Read more... EN CN
Many companies are engaging in corporate social responsibility activities. Yet many of these same companies are challenged to effectively communicate with consumers about their efforts. To understand the information needs of different target markets, the CSCP undertook a survey of consumer-oriented CSR communications [...] Read more...
Thailand has long been recognized as a highly competitive Asian base for vehicle production. The industry has experienced rapid growth over the past decades and this growth has had environmental consequences. SMEs represent a large proportion of the auto and automotive parts sector in Thailand. Read more...
Thailand has among the most highly developed SCP policy frameworks in Asia. The success of sustainable consumption approaches is in part connected to the Thai tradition of being a sharing society. Read more...
The Pakistan industrial base is expected to expand significantly in the coming years. It is of paramount importance that the planned industrial estates are developed in a sustainable manner to minimise negative environmental and social impacts. Read more...
On the 14th of February 2012, the CSCP together with the Regional Activity Centre for Cleaner Production, Mediterranean Action Plan, Boğaziçi University Sustainable Development and Cleaner Production Center and [...] Read more...
Increasing urbanization and climate change are two of the great challenges of the 21st Century. Cities cover only 1% of the Earth‘s surface, but are already home to about 50% of the Earth‘s population. Up to 80 % of global greenhouse gas emissions are estimated to originate in urban areas, providing large mitigation potentials [...] Read more...
Today, resource efficiency (RE) and cleaner and safer production (CP) are fundamental elements in the progression towards a future low-carbon economy and society. Improvements in resource management play a key role in limiting energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions [...] Read more...
Is it possible to improve human health and life quality in an ageing European society while at the same time reducing current levels of energy, transport and resource use? Social innovation and significant changes [...] Read more...
Growing populations coupled with increasing patterns of consumption across the world call for a change in consumption towards more sustainability. Progressive projects and initiatives that encourage the shift toward sustainable consumption patterns [...] Read more...
Education plays an important role in changing lifestyle patterns. Teenagers are at a crucial age as they start to build their own ways of consuming. They observe the daily habits of people [...] Read more...
Successful dissemination of sustainable products and services is necessary to support sustainable lifestyles. As a cooperation and communication tool an online platform [...] Read more...
What is measured has a higher chance of being effectively managed. Indicators are measurement instruments and are therefore an important tool for fostering Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). Read more...
Successful dissemination of sustainable products and services is necessary to support sustainable lifestyles. As a cooperation and communication tool an online platform can enable targeted communication between relevant stakeholders [...] Read more...
The business benefits of sound environmental management may not always be obvious for small and medium sized enterprises. Moreover, knowledge of the various environmental management tools can also often be low. Read more...
The building and construction market with its emerging interior renovation and decoration activities is booming in China. But there are severe health and environmental [...] Read more...
Supporting sustainable consumption is becoming an ever more important issue for business. New consumer movements, such as the LOHAS (Lifestyles of health and sustainability) are emerging. Read more...
What strategies are necessary to enable issues such as climate change, resource scarcity, biodiversity loss, unhealthy eating habits and poor social conditions to find their way into the mainstream media? How can a broader cross section of the population be educated on sustainable consumption and environmentally [...] Read more...
The demand for natural resources is increasing across the world and in several cases resource scarcity is a major factor behind increasing resource prices. Many experts predict that this will be a long term trend. As answer to resource scarcity and a vital element [...] Read more...
Policy makers are in a unique position to boost resource efficiency. Reducing resource consumption and increasing economic and social wellbeing will provide substantial benefits for both society and the planet. Read more...
Only what we measure can we know. To increase the sustainability of consumption and production it is therefore necessary to develop sound methods to measure environmental impacts along product value chains. Read more...
An environmentally sound and socially responsible economic development is a declared aim of most political leaders around the globe. Despite this stated aim, policy frameworks and an absence of integrated decision-making processes [...] Read more...
Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) has significant potential to make meaningful contributions to sustainable development on the African continent. In order to fully make use of this potential it is necessary to implement coherent and effective SCP programmes on the ground. Read more...
The civil society platform on sustainable consumption and production is working to make SCP a reality by supporting the engagement of civil society in SCP research and policy processes. Read more..
Effective recycling systems are central to resource conservation and material efficiency. Recycling transforms waste into a resource that can be reintegrated into production processes. Consequently, the application of recycling technologies [...] Read more...
Saving resources is not only about mitigation of pollution and climate change; it is also about creating new growth with the resources still available in a world where populations and ever increasing demand for more products are still growing. The efficient entrepreneur is aware that growth is linked to [...] Read more...
Resource efficiency forms the backbone of a sustainable economy. It enables companies to produce products with fewer resource inputs and by extension reduce environmental impacts, including emissions of greenhouse gases [...] Read more...
