Have you already wrapped up all your presents for Christmas? Hopefully not, because there is a beautiful sustainable alternative to glittery cellophane paper: The CSCP designers won the "Occupy Christmas" award for wrapping paper with a design, that shows tips to save carbon dioxide in snowy eco colors on recycled paper. Read more
A key challenge for any development programme is to scale up successful approaches and methodologies. Therefore the SWITCH-Asia Network Facility, lead by the CSCP, distills the lessons learned from the SWITCH-Asia project. To take it one step further, our team wanted to find out, what it takes to stick to the promising practices developed in the project. A series of scaling up reports containing the results are out now. Read more
Sustainable infrastructure projects often come along with innovative ideas. Still neglected is the financing part. Where does the money come from to put these sustainable ideas in execution? The Global Energy Basel (GEB) Conference 2013 wants to bring ideas, needs, and finance together. Read more
IT-supported improvement of sustainable business processes in companies is constantly gaining importance. Intelligent IT systems, which can help to save energy, face a rapidly increasing demand although there is an undoubted backlog in some parts of the industrial practice regarding green IT. The CSCP held a workshop on Vision 2050 with IT companies to identify how IT could also support sustainable lifestyles. Read more
A roadmap and action plan for sustainable lifestyles from today until 2050 is the most recent outcome of the SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 project, coordinated by the CSCP. It will be presented at a highly interactive conference on 26 & 27 november, bringing together policy makers, business, civil society, research, design and many others in Brussels. Register now! Read more