Envisioning projects
Envision
We envision concepts and lifestyles that provide a good living and well-being for all, based on shared values within the limits of nature. Despite diverse international and disciplinary back-grounds of the experts at the CSCP, we are united by the belief that our vision is not only possible but also achievable. Learn 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...
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...
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...
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...
Combine the knowledge of two countries to establish new global standards for SCP. Germany and Japan are among the leaders in environmental technologies, and they are currently pursuing advancement in the strategic issue of sustainable resource management. Read more...
Analysing hot-spots of resource consumption is an effective way to identify the potential for increasing resource efficiency in global value chains. For this reason hot spot analysis can play an important role [...] Read more...
The phenomenon of climate change affects the lives of people in many ways. Among others it is transforming employment prospects and incomes around the world. Particularly in developing countries, jobs and livelihoods of many people [...] Read more...
This project evaluates SCP policy frameworks in eight Baltic countries with respect to the potential to stimulate SCP innovation in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Focus countries include [...] 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...
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...
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...
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...
