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We promote the development and spread of sustainable patterns of consumption and production. This includes raising awareness within and providing support to consumer groups and the private sector to understand their role and opportunity in achieving sustainable patterns of sustainable consumption and production. 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
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...
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...
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...
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...
Energy efficiency offers among the greatest quickest, and most cost-effective options to reduce energy consumption and mitigate climate change. There are various technologies and policy [...] 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...
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...
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...
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...
Successful dissemination of sustainable products and services is necessary to support sustainable lifestyles. As a cooperation and communication tool an online platform [...] 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
An effective shift toward Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) will require new and different roles for different actors. The retail sector has potential to affect change in society like no other industry given their [...] 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...
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...
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...
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...
Media can play a key role in promoting sustainable consumption and production (SCP). While there are signs that the mainstream media is beginning to approach SCP issues a number of challenges remain. 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...
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...
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..
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...
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...
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...
