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A short history behind the “10-year framework”
Jeffrey Barber, Integrative Strategies Forumand Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED)“3rd International Experts Meeting on the 10-Year Framework”
26 June 2007, Stockholm, Sweden
Setting the contextSetting the context
Déjà vu – Fr. “already seen”
The experience that one has witnessed or experienced a new
situation previously. Amnesia1 : loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness.2 : a gap in one's memory.3 : the selective overlooking or ignoring of events or acts that are not favorable or useful to one's purpose or position.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George Santayana
Timeline: 1972-2022
“Long-term environmental strategiesfor achieving sustainable development
to the year 2000 and beyond”
– Brundtland Report
Agenda 21:Programme of Action for the 21st Century
Growing public concern about energy crisis, oil spills, toxic disasters, cancer rates, nuclear meltdown…
“A matter of grave concern…”
The major cause of the continued deterioration
of the global environmentis the unsustainable
pattern of consumption and production,
particularly in industrialized countries …
a matter of grave concern.
- Agenda 21, Chapter 4 (1992)
“To achieve sustainable development and a higher
quality of life for all people, States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and
consumption…”
Rio Principle 8
In Agenda 21, Ch. 4, one type of “framework” is a key objective:
Develop a domestic policy framework
that will encourage a shift to more sustainable patterns of production and consumption.
[4.17b]
Agenda 21, Chapter 4 objectives
1. Reduce stress and meet needs.2. Develop a better understanding of
consumption.3. Promote efficiency and reduce waste.4. Develop a domestic policy framework
that will encourage a shift.5. Reinforce values and policies.
International meetings on consumption
1994 - Soria Moria Symposium (Oslo)
1995 - Oslo Ministerial Roundtable
1995 - Clarifying the concepts workshop (Rosendal)
1996 - Workshop on patterns & policies (Brasilia)
1998 - Workshop on indicators for sustainable production & consumption (New York)
1998 - Consumption in a sustainable world (Kabelvag)
CSD NGO SPAC CaucusImportant tool for NGOs
attending CSD to organize and advocate common SPAC priorities:
• Beyond efficiency to sufficiency• Under- and over-consumption• Targets and timetables.• National SPAC policy frameworks.• Policy guidelines on SPAC.• Corporate responsibility and
accountability.
Message to governments:Implement Agenda 21!
• Review progress towards SPAC• Develop national SPAC policy
Soesterberg 1999: “From Consumer Society to Sustainable
Society”
NGO preparatory conference for the CSD’s 7th session focusing on
production and consumption.
A new international partnership initiativeto engage civil society to review progress towards sustainable production and consumption…
International work program
1. Policy implications of projected trends.
2. Impact on developing countries.3. Effectiveness of policy measures.4. Time-bound commitments from
countries.5. Revision of UN Consumer
Guidelines. CSD-7 (1999)
Timeline: 1972-2022
Agenda 21:Programme of Action for the 21st Century
“Implementation crisis”
10-Year Review of Progress on the Implementation of Agenda
21
2002: World Summit onSustainable Development
Report of Secretary-General:
“No major changes have occurred since UNCED in the unsustainable patterns of consumption and production which are putting the natural life support systems at peril.”- Report of the Secretary-General,
“Implementing Agenda 21” (2002)
2001-02, SPAC Watch roundtables organized in Bali, New York,
Johannesburg, helping explore and promote idea of 10-year
work program on SPAC.
SPAC Watch report, Waiting for Delivery, presented at WSSD.
What is the “10-Year Framework?”
Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, Para. 15:
“Encourage and promote the development of a 10-year framework of programmes in support of regional and national initiatives to accelerate the shift towards sustainable consumption and production…
(Now that it was no longer a 10 year program of work!)
Government procurementSubsidy reform Eco-taxes/shiftingInvestment guidelinesSocially Responsible InvestmentFinancial institutions reforms
Sustainability Assessment:Analysis of impacts of current
practicesAnalysis of effectiveness of policies
Identification of obstacles Strategies for overcoming obstacles
Advertising reformEco-labeling
PackagingPricing
TransportationTrade
Analysis of behavior & trends;Consumer information
Right-to-KnowEducation for sustainability
Needs analysis;Impacts of consumption
practicesValues, norms & behavior
A framework of programs and policy tools
What is the Framework of Programmes?
1. What kind of support do regional and national initiatives need from the UN?
2. What kind of programs are needed to provide this support?
Programs to supportregional & national initiatives
Timeline: 1972-2022
Agenda 21:Programme of Action for the 21st Century
?
Worsening so
cial & enviro
nmental
trends
MarrakechProcess
What is the “Marrakech Process?”
• “A basic step towards the development of a 10-year framework of programmes…” - (1st Expert Mtg Rpt, 2003)
• “Initiated as an implementation of JPOI by UNEP and UNDESA at the international level to coordinate activities in support of regional and national initiatives for the 10-year framework of programmes.” - (Category 1 paper, prepared by Sweden/UNEP, January 2007)
Timeline: 1972-2022
MarrakechProcess
Reverse the trends!
If the trendsare not
reversed…we lose.
SPAC Watch 20101. A civil society review of progress
towards sustainable production and consumption
2. Regional civil society perspectives.
3. Consideration of action vs. worsening trends in 2002-2012.