Workshop

V General Topics

V.W1 Innovative Policy Frameworks for SCP

Datum: 23/09/2008
Zeit: 14:30 - 16:00
Ort: Hall C

Zielgruppe: Policy makers, business, researchers, consumer associations

Ziele:

Discuss priority issues that need to be addressed to move to SCP.  Dialogue on national, European and international actions that need to be taken in order to design an innovative policy framework for SCP.

Format: SCP Arena (Talk round, interviews and discussion with the audience)
Sprache: Englisch

In Europe, the renewed European Sustainable Development Strategy was adopted by the European Council in 2006. The Strategy placed SCP among the seven priority areas. It recognises the need to gradually change our current unsustainable consumption and production patterns and move towards a better-integrated approach to policy-making. The Strategy invited the European Commission to elaborate an EU SCP Action plan, which should help to identify and overcome barriers for SCP, to ensure better coherence between the different related policy areas, to raise awareness among citizens and to change unsustainable consumption habits. The background document on the Action Plan also highlights the international dimension of SCP and wants to strengthen the cooperation with “Marrakech Process” that was launched to promote progress on the 10-year framework on sustainable consumption and production.

The session will elaborate on priority issues that need to be addressed to move towards SCP in Europe and beyond and discuss national, European and international actions that need to be taken in order to design an innovative policy framework for SCP.

Workshop Moderation

Kuhndt, Michael
UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating
Head of the Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production, Wuppertal, Germany
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Beiträge

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Hicks, Cheryl
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Schweiz


Jaeckel, Ulf
BMU, Deutschland


Mortensen, Lars
European Environment Agency, Dänemark


Pederson, Bjarne
Consumer International, Großbritannien