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Each and every one of us makes dozens of large and small decisions every day. Should we buy locally grown apples or rather strawberries shipped from far away. The NRW Sustainable Lifestyles project aims to help people make informed decisions while at the same time [...] Read more...
What opportunities does sustainability-driven innovation offer the ICT sector? How can new business value be drawn from sustainability? These are just some questions the ICT sector is facing today. Answering these and moving forward with a sustainability driven growth agenda was the aim of a Sustainable ICT Innovation Workshop. [...] Read more...
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...
The Budding Ideas Glocally for 2050 project, also known as BIG2050 aims to demonstrate that, not only is sustainable living possible today, it will be also be considerably more so in the year 2050. By analysing consumption patterns and how these patterns influence lifestyles in five different countries, BIG 2050 aims to [...] Read more...
New sustainable business models can drive a significant change in the way we live our lives, such as sharing products, swapping goods or purchasing services rather than products. How can the impacts of sustainable business models be scaled up from a niche towards a mass market application? Read more...
With the aim of making sustainability easy, improving lives for all, the CSCP launched a series of events named the “Workstudios”. These multi-stakeholder events combine keynote speeches, TED-style panelists, visioning workshops, strategic planning and match-making activities [...] 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...
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...
Sustainable Entrepreneurship is becoming a powerful tool that entrepreneurs can seize to meet their social, environmental and economic objectives. Sustainable entrepreneurs are critical actors for changing existing sustainable consumption and production patterns [...] Read more...
concepts for future sustainable lifestylesSustainable lifestyles and consumption choices are of increasing interest to consumers and researchers. To engage a wide cross section of actors and increase the impact of individual lifestyle choices it is necessary to [...] Read more...
In today’s society lifestyles are rapidly changing. What attracts consumers today might be out of date tomorrow. Regardless of changing consumer preferences one fact remains consistent: lifestyles are imposing ever greater demand on increasingly scarce resources. [...] 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...
Efficient communication and interaction between policy makers, administrative agencies and the scientific community is needed to create a more sustainable society. Only through a network of these different actors is it possible to identify needs and potential solutions. 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...
Consumption and production patterns are becoming increasingly global in nature and international cooperation is needed to enable societies to shift towards more sustainable lifestyles. 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...
Self sufficient and environmentally friendly development in rural Africa is a priority for alleviating poverty and building sustainable communities. The dissemination of a solar oven technology for bakeries in rural regions in Africa supports [...] Read more...
The topic of sustainable consumption and production is rising to the top of many political agendas. However there remain many unanswered questions, such as how to best promote sustainable lifestyles [...] Read more...
Business has a huge role to play in encouraging sustainable ways of living. As consumers become more and more aware of the environmental impacts of consumption, sustainable business strategies will increasingly offer new opportunities [...] 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...
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...
Sustainable entrepreneurship is a relatively new concept. Nonetheless, interest and activities in this new field has grown across the world. Increasingly, creative entrepreneurial individuals are acting upon their environmental and social convictions to support the international sustainability agenda. 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...
Sustainable products and services offer untapped opportunities for future oriented entrepreneurship and innovation. Some 80% of the life cycle environmental and social impacts that arise from products are determined during its planning and development phase alone. By fusing creativity, understanding and entrepreneurship, eco-friendly, fashionable, and fair products and services can be realised. Read more...
Research can offer important insights to a diverse range of stakeholders as well as increase the SCP knowledge base to enable strategic priority setting. For envisaged changes to become reality, research needs to be [...] 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..
In Pakistan there is a pressing need for a shift toward greater energy and resource efficient (ERE) production processes. This shift requires a technological transformation as well as increased knowledge capacity in particular in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Read more...
The SWITCH-Asia Network Facility tackles the most pressing environmental challenges in Asia. It plays a key role for the switch toward more sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns in Asia’s rapidly transforming [...] Read more...
The Expert Conference on the Marrakech Process – Creating Solutions for SCP provided a platform for experts from around the world to collaborate on finding pathways to sustainable consumption. The conference enabled the global [...] Read more...
The transition to sustainable patterns of consumption and production on global scale requires dialogue and coordination among all relevant actors. The Marrakech Process aims to assist countries in their efforts to green their economies by developing greener business models and consumption patterns. [...] Read more...
Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) are a major source of waste and emissions of CO2 and account for up to 90% of global industrial output. SMEs are also the biggest source of employment, economic development and innovation in local societies. They represent the backbone of many economies and are the key to sustaining industrial value chains. [...] Read more...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in innovation, economic growth, employment creation and the provision of goods and services to underserved communities. Adopting sustainable consumption and production (SCP) as an overarching [...] 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...
