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Civil Society Platform on SCP Background and Latest developments

Presented by:

Burcu TunçerUNEP / Wuppertal Institute collaborating

Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production

Burcu Tunçer CSO Platform on SCP Project - framework, objectives & milestones www.scp-network.net 2

• Why sustainable consumption & production?• The key role of the civil society towards SCP• CSO Platform on SCP Project • Action Town - Research and Action for SCP Project

Why sustainable consumption & production?

Burcu Tunçer CSO Platform on SCP Project - framework, objectives & milestones www.scp-network.net

Consumption and production systemshave gone global.


Global production and consumption systemsfail to achieve fair distribution of resources.


Global production and consumption systems are not mindful of planetary limits.

“... there is a direct link between the financial crisis and the ecological crisis. To the extent that ecological limits restrict the growth rates of earnings,

stock prices will fall.”Carsten Henningsen, co-founder of the global sustainability fund Portfolio 21.


Sustainable consumption and production approaches let us mind the planetary limits

Source: Adapted from Wuppertal Institute, Fair Future

Resource-efficient consumption & shift to sustainable lifestyles

Development through leapfrogging high-impact consumption patterns

Countries with high footprint per capita

Countries with low footprint per capita

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The key role of the civil society


Who is the civil society?

Academia/Research Institution

Activist Group

Charity

Policy Institution

Club

Not-For-Profit Organisation

NGO

Community Organisation

Foundation

Environmental NGO

Youth Group

Cultural/Ethnic/Gender Group

Cooperative

Consumers Association/Organisation

Trade Union

Support Group

Religious Organisation

Professional Association

Private Voluntary Organisation

Any legal entity that is non-governmental, not-for-profit, not representing commercial interest and pursuing a common purpose in the public interest.


Civil society is part of the triangle of change

GovernmentBusiness

Civil Society

“Participation of all actors in society is needed to achieve sustainable consumption and production . None of these actors can change unsustainable patterns alone, but together they can form a so-called triange of change. Actors are ready to change their behaviour if they know that others are doing their bit.“

UK Sustainable Consumption Roundtable, 2006



CSO Platform on SCP Project objectives & latest developments


Project objectives

• Identify and discuss trends, impacts, drivers of

consumption patterns within three impact areas;

• Identify and discuss actions within policy

implementation and innovation, sustainable

technologies, funding for SCP, and creative

instruments for behaviour change;

• Draw and discuss conclusions for future research

agenda from the perspective of civil society’s needs;

• Develop perspectives with the EC, EEA and other

European organisations regarding the action plans

and implementation processes;

• Provide an online platform for fostering dialogue.

Pictures from Wikimedia commons.


The challenge of Sustainable Consumption & Production

Focus on food&drink, mobility and housing:

Together these impact areas account for approximately 70-80% of environmental impacts arising from all products over their life cycles.

Impact categories thereby range from global warming, acidification, photochemical ozone formation to eutrophication.*

Housing

Food & Drink

Mobility

Others

*Source: EIPRO Study 2006, NAMEA Study 2006, WI 1998


Project Partners and Their Focus Areas

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Focus area housing

CfSD

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Focus are food and drink

CSCP

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Focus area mobility

REC


Project objectives















Sustainable consumption and production approaches for effective CSO action

Support for development and uptake of sustainable

technologies

• Research & Dissemination

• Awareness raising & campaigning

• Independent monitoring

Creative approaches

• Theatre, concerts, films, celebrity events e.g. The Story of

Stuff, Al Gore

• Websites e.g. onedidit

• Art, photography, design, sculpture e.g. the WEEE man

• Booklets/books e.g. Change the World for a Fiver

Contribution to Public Policy Implementation

• Take part in implementation of the SCP agenda

• Monitor & campaign

• Suggesting new generation policy instruments beyond informative instruments to address behavior

change.

Photos: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Gary Bridgman GNU Free Documentation License, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Overhead-View-Potter-at-her-wheel.JPG

Ingvar Kjøllesdal, (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0,), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Paint_on_hands.jpg


Project objectives

• Identify and discuss trends, impacts, drivers of consumption patterns within three impact areas;

• Identify and discuss actions within policy implementation and innovation, sustainable technologies, funding for SCP, and creative instruments for behaviour change;

• Draw and discuss conclusions for future research agenda from the perspective of civil society’s needs;

• Develop perspectives with the EC, EEA and other European organisations regarding the action plans and implementation processes;




Project timetable

Online platform

Event 3 Event 4Event 1 Event 2

Strategy Workshop with policy makers

Closing Conference in Brussels

Launch Conference

in Szentendre

Food

Housing

Mobility

SCP Baseline Report

Discovery section “get-involved” section

Month 1 Month 4 Month 14Month 8

Dialogue & Action Platform for SCP conference in Wuppertal


Project objectives












• Provide an online platform for fostering

dialogue.Pictures from Wikimedia commons.


www.scp-dialogue.net


Recent developments: The Ning application

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• Social network: http://csoplatform.ning.com/

• Everyone interested in SCP is welcome to join!

•The purpose of the application is to network especially with other CSOs, share information and ideas and announce up-coming events.

• The application contains for example a discussion forum, and possibilities for sharing videos, photos and blogs.


Back-up


A key partner towards SCP

Business

Consumers

Academia

Policy makers

Civil Society Organisations

(CSOs)

• Evidence base for priority setting• Monitoring of policies through indicators

• Partnerships for sustainable technologies• Monitoring of actions

• Information & awareness raising • Creative instruments for behavioral change

• Monitor & encourage policy implementation• Partnerships for policy innovation



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How can we consume and produce with fair share of resources?



Ecological Footprint by Region 2001

Source: WWF 2005

Western and Central Eastern Europe Consuming beyond planetary limits


Project partners and advisory board members

• Regional Environment Centre (REC)

• UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP)

• Centre for Sustainable Design (CfSD)

• Bjarne Pedersen, Consumers International, London

• Lars Mortensen, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen

• Prof. Sandor Kerekes, Corvinus University

• Andrzej Kassenberg, Institute for Sustainable Development, Warsaw

Project Partners Advisory Board


Addressing policy implementation gap & need for policy innovation

• Policy and practical implementation of the SCP agenda has been slow.

• Monitoring of implementation needs to be strengthened.

• New generation policy instruments beyond informative instruments are needed to address consumer behavior change.

• International (e.g. within Marrakech Process more active engagement in NGO Platform);

• Regional (e.g. within SCP Action Plan indicating at the need for innovative policy instruments to address consumer behavior change, monitoring implementation)

• National (e.g. within National Action Plan development)

• City (e.g. encouragement of GPP)

• Community (e.g. eco-teams)

• Individual/Citizen (e.g. awareness-raising on eco-labels)

Civil society response at various levels:


Enhancing dissemination of sustainable technologies

How can CSOs facilitate the uptake of sustainable technologies in the e.g. housing sector?

Strategy 3: Collaboration /negotiation

• Media/member/contact promotion of positive (and negative?) cases of ST

• Adding to indepenent info. measures, distribution and feedback – increasing understanding of ST

Strategy 2 Awareness raising & campaigning

• Offering services to ST stakeholders – evaluation, consultation, research etc

• Programmes promoting ST and behavioural change in implementation e.g. demonstrations

Strategy 1 Research &Dissemination

• Joining stakeholder tasks/ dialogue on technology implementation, standards

• Studying responses to technologies – social and technical performance

• Collating contacts views and actions


Using creative instruments for behavioral change

Events and Exhibitions

•Art, photography, design, sculpture e.g. the

WEEE man

•Theatre, concerts, films, celebrity events e.g. The Story of Stuff, Al Gore

Advertising and Marketing

•Posters

•Websites e.g. onedidit

•Articles

•Booklets/books e.g. Change the World for a Fiver

Activities

Games, online social networks

•Community eco teams

• Educational programmes from local traditions to

support local and cultural aspects of SCP

Photos: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Gary Bridgman GNU Free Documentation License, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Overhead-View-Potter-at-her-wheel.JPG

Ingvar Kjøllesdal, (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0,), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Paint_on_hands.jpg


Providing more funding for SCP

e.g. UK Department for Environment and Rural Affairs ‘Environmental Action Fund’ for voluntary & community sector

groups

Finance

e.g. WWF-Uniross partnership: Campaign on environmental benefits

of re-chargeable batteries, and recycling batteries, Uniros fund

several WWF initiatives especially those focused on SCP.

Activities of CSOs

Finance

• CSO-government partnerships

• CSO-business partnerships

• Project related funding from foundations

• Funding for innovation in communities (social innovation)

• Self-Financing

• Other?

Sources of Finance



Source: Wuppertal Institute, 2005

Which growth path to follow?


Sustainable consumption and production aproaches can help fair share of resources

Industrialised countries~ 20% of ecological backpack~ 80% of value added

Developing countries~ 80% of ecological backpack~ 20% of value added

End-of-life (reuse/recycle)

UseRetail(sales)

ProductionSourcingcore materials


Launch Conference and Dialogue series 1 in Szentendre Hungary

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Organised by REC, CSCP and CfSD on the 13th and 14th of October 2008, in Szentendre, Hungary

NNN people from x different countries participated in the conference

The conference programme contained presentations, panel discussions and dialogue series on food, housing and mobility.

The dialogue series focused on trends, drivers and impacts in food, housing and mobility as well as possible CSO actions.

A lot of new exciting ideas were generated and new friends made!

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