Still Waiting for Delivery Looking Backward and Forward on the 10-Year Challenge to Change...

Still Waiting for Delivery Looking Backward and Forward on the 10-Year

Challenge to Change Production and Consumption

8 December 2009Klima Center, Copenhagen

Jeffrey Barber

2002: Waiting for Delivery2002: Waiting for Delivery

The World in 2012:The World in 2012: Towards a 10 Year Plan Towards a 10 Year Plan to Achieve Sustainable to Achieve Sustainable

Production and Production and ConsumptionConsumption

Piper Alpha

BhopalLove Canal

3 Mile Island

Global 2000 Rpt

Chernobyl

Hanford

Danube Massey

Our Stolen FutureSeveso

Amoco Cadiz

Baia Mare

Bangladesh arsenic

Exxon Valdez

Ozone hole

Progress towards sustainability (?)Progress towards sustainability (?)

The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production…

- Agenda 21, Chapter 4 (1992)

Agenda 21, Ch. 4Agenda 21, Ch. 4

Develop a domestic policy frameworkthat will encourage a shift to more sustainable patterns of production and consumption.

1992: “Develop a domestic policy framework that will encourage a shift to more sustainablepatterns of production and consumption.”

Ten years laterTen years later

2002: 10 Year Review of Progress Since Rio

Problem of the “implementation gap”

Worsening social and environmental trends…Worsening social and environmental trends…

……due to increasing production and consumptiondue to increasing production and consumption

WSSD mandateWSSD mandate

Johannesburg Plan of Implementation:

“…development of a 10-year framework of programmesin support of national and regional initiatives

to accelerate the shifttowards sustainable consumption and production."

Lifestyl

es/vol

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si

mplicity

Consu

mer i

nfor

mati

on

Ri

ght-to-

Know

Educati

on

for

sustai

nability

Consu

mer

acti

on/boycotts

Ethical

shoppi

ng

Consumption

Production

Industrial ecology

Life Cycle Analysis

Workplace standards

Clean production

Sustainable manufacturing

Extended Producer Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility

Eco Product design

Initiatives and communities of practice

Fair Trade

Advertising reform

Eco-labeling

Certification

Packaging

Full cost pricing

Transportation

Distribution

Invest

ment

Green

procure

ment

Subsi

dy

refor

m

Eco-taxes/shifti

ng

Soci

ally

Responsi

bl

e I

nvest

ment

Fi

nanci

al i

nstituti

onal

refor

m


Values/Needs/Norms

Redefining progress & growth

Happiness research

Defining and measuring sustainability

National policy frameworks/plans


Lifestyle/Voluntary simplicity

Right to know/access to information

Education for sustainability

Ethical shopping

Consumer action/ boycott campaigns

Consumption-focused initiatives/communities of practice

Supportive UN programs

National, regional & local initiatives

Finance Data-base

Dialog Indicators Research

Lifestyle/Voluntary simplicity

Right to know/access to information

Education for sustainability

Ethical shopping

Consumer action/ boycott campaigns

Consumption-focused initiatives/communities of practice

Supportive programs (proposed)


Finance Data-base


Sustainable manufacturing

Lifecycle assessment

Clean production

Extended Producer Responsibility

Eco-product design

Industrial ecology

CSR

Production-focused initiatives/communities of practice



Finance Data-base


Fair Trade

Advertising reform

Eco-labeling

Certification

Packaging

Rural-urban linkages

Transport alternatives

Distribution-focused initiatives/communities of practice



Finance Data-base


SRI

Procurement guidelines

Subsidy reform

Overseas Development Aid

Foreign Direct Investment

Eco-taxes/shifting

Financial institutional reform

Investment-focused initiatives/communities of practice



CSD18 – ‘Review of Progress on the 10 Year Framework of Programs for Sustainable Consumption and Production

May 2010

Ten years laterTen years later

What international programs would be most supportive of the world’s initiatives? Are they on the table?

Is this another “implementation gap” ?

CSD 18

The world in 2012…Still waiting for delivery?The world in 2012…Still waiting for delivery?

It is not the UN or its programs that willIt is not the UN or its programs that willreverse these worsening trends… reverse these worsening trends…

……but thebut the global global movementmovement of of people and their people and their initiativesinitiatives promoting promoting sustainable sustainable production and production and consumption and a consumption and a higher quality of life higher quality of life for everyone.for everyone.

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