Achieving sustainable production and consumption

Focusing on unsustainable patterns of production and consumption.

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends providing for incentives to reduce unsustainable patterns of production and consumption.

1. Enabling planning of future consumption
2. Decreasing consumption
3. Changing
4. Building a sustainable society

1. Studying causes of poor consumption practices
2. Reducing international disparity in the consumption of resources
3. Publicizing services supporting sustainable production and consumption
4. Providing new data on consumption requirements
5. Improving participation of women on sustainable consumption and production
6. Ensuring sustainable personal consumption
7. Ensuring sustainable industrial development
8. Changing consumption patterns
9. Avoiding unsustainable consumption patterns in developing countries
10. Assessing relationships between production-consumption and sustainable development
11. Assessing impact of unsustainable production and consumption patterns

1. Reducing waste

1. Supporting research on traditional and sustainable production methods
2. Revealing imbalances in priorities for resource consumption
3. Monitoring industries
4. Expanding databases on production and consumption patterns
5. Coordinating production research and development
6. Assessing urban energy production and consumption patterns
7. Assessing costs and financing to change consumption patterns

1. Promoting environmentally sound economic growth

1. Unsustainable
2. Unproductivity
3. Underproduction
4. Overproduction
5. Overconsumption
6. Consumption

1. UN Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
2. Sustainable consumption and production
3. Global Economic Symposium: Ways to achieve sustainable consumption
4. Future Earth Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production
5. SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
6. Achieving Sustainable Production and Consumption in the Agricultural Sector: An Indian Context
7. Sustainable Consumption and Production : Why is it Important?
8. Sustainable production and consumption
9. Goal 12: Responsible consumption, production
10. Winners of Sustainable Consumption & Production