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The Sustainable Consumption and Production
Branch works to promote sustainable resource management in
a life cycle perspective for goods and services produced and
used by governments, business and civil society.
The Sustainable Consumption and Production
(SCP) Branch focuses on achieving increased understanding
and implementation by public and private decision makers of
policies and actions for SCP. Given the breadth of the challenges
and actions required to achieve SCP, activities are focussed
on specific tools, encompassing policies, market-based instruments
and voluntary approaches, with emphasis given to some specific
economic sectors.
A participatory, multi-stakeholder approach
to the analysis of SCP challenges and design of responses
is complemented by a combination of training and capacity
building, communication and awareness and (increasingly) demonstration
projects. These are designed to illustrate the benefits of
SCP policies and actions (environmental, economic and social),
and enhance the capacity of stakeholders to apply them.
Emphasis is laid on identifying SCP challenges,
responses and opportunities for developing countries (e.g.
new markets for more sustainable products and poverty alleviation),
and identifying and fulfilling capacity building needs.
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