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Sustainable Development Goal 12
Sustainable Development Goal 12 aims to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. It focuses on promoting efficient use of resources, reducing waste generation, and encouraging sustainable practices in industries and businesses. The goal also emphasizes the importance of raising awareness and providing information about sustainable lifestyles and practices.
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12 Key excerpts on "Sustainable Development Goal 12"
- Jonas Ebbesson, Ellen Hey(Authors)
- 2022(Publication Date)
- Cambridge University Press(Publisher)
12 In short, SDG 12 is shrouded in a serious ambiguity underpinning the whole SDG agenda. On the one hand, it aspires to avert incoming ecological breakdowns and revert dramatic forms of social injustice. On the other hand, it remains anchored to the epistemic foundations that are arguably at the basis of a socio- economic system that has enabled environmental degradation and widespread inequalities and are reflected in the international legal regime, as discussed in the next sections. 7 Des Gasper, Amod Shah, & Sunil Tankha, ‘The Framing of Sustainable Consumption and Production in SDG 12’ (2019) 10 Global Policy 83, 87, 88. 8 Magnus Bengtsson et al., ‘Transforming Systems of Consumption and Production for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Moving beyond Efficiency’ (2018) 13 Sustainability Science 1533, 1536. 9 Louis J. Kotzé, ‘The Sustainable Development Goals: An Existential Critique alongside Three New-Millennial Analytical Paradigms’, in Duncan French & Louis J. Kotzé (eds.), Sustainable Development Goals Law, Theory and Implementation (EE, 2018), 41–65. 10 For a literature overview, see Sam Adelman, ‘The Sustainable Development Goals, Anthropocentrism and Neoliberalism’, in French & Kotzé, n. 9, 15, 34. 11 Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics, Seven Ways to Think Like a Twenty-first Century Economist (Penguin, 2017), 245. 12 Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (Penguin, 2018). Responsible Consumption and Production 307 12.3 positioning sdg 12 in international law A multitude of environmental and human rights treaties indirectly facilitate sustain- able production processes. Yet focusing on these treaties diverts the attention from the lack of genuine engagement of the international legal system with SCP. In this system, environmental and human rights norms are weak when compared to the international economic law regime.
eBook - ePubFulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals
On a Quest for a Sustainable World
- Narinder Kakar, Vesselin Popovski, Nicholas A. Robinson, Narinder Kakar, Vesselin Popovski, Nicholas A. Robinson(Authors)
- 2021(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
18 Toward Sustainable Consumption and Production Anna Shostya and Narinder KakarDOI: 10.4324/9781003144274-18Introduction
When the United Nations (UN) adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September 2015, it launched a new phase for multilateralism and the global community’s commitment to improve human lives and protect the environment. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are at the heart of the 2030 Agenda address multifaceted challenges of global peace, security, inequality, and economic growth and development. These goals are much more compelling, interrelated, and universal than their predecessors, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which were introduced by the UN in 2000. The 2030 Agenda is revolutionary because it calls for the entire world’s commitment to secure a sustainable future, so that the environmental impacts of the ever-increasing demand for resources, as well as its effects on people and the economy, are minimized. This commitment to a sustainable future necessitates ensuring transformative changes in sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns, the main focus of SDG 12. Being an urgent call to action for a responsible management of the Earth’s limited resources, SDG 12 is the most central goal of the 2030 Agenda.This chapter assesses the progress that has been made toward SDG 12 thus far. We start with important definitions of SCP and resource efficiency and explain how the concept of SCP has evolved and become part of the 2030 Agenda. We then explain the fundamental principles and targets of SDG 12. This is followed by the assessment of the global, regional, and income-based progress toward the goal, with several case studies (Moving toward SDG 12
eBook - ePubStrengthening the Environmental Dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific
Stocktake of National Responses to Sustainable Development Goals 12, 14, and 15
- (Author)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- Asian Development Bank(Publisher)
https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/files/SDG%2012%20Goal%20Profile%20Final%20260218.pdfThe eight substantive targets of SDG 12 and their 10 corresponding indicators cover issues that relate to lifestyles and behavior generally, and chemicals and waste specifically. These include targets on promoting universal understanding of sustainable lifestyles (12.8); promoting sustainable public procurement practices (12.7); encouraging companies to adopt sustainable practices and sustainability reporting (12.6); substantially reducing waste generation (12.5); responsible management of chemicals and wastes, significantly reducing releases to air, water, and soil (12.4); and halving global per capita food waste (12.3). All these targets aim to achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources by 2030 (12.2) and implementation of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes (10YFP) on Sustainable Consumption and Production (12.1). The 10YFP, adopted at Rio+20 Conference in 2012, is designed to develop, replicate, and scale up sustainable consumption and production (SCP) and resource efficiency initiatives at the regional and national levels, while decoupling environmental degradation and resource use from economic growth.Since it focuses on the environmental impacts of economic activity, many interlinkages exist between SDG 12 and other goals and targets (Figure 5 ). Achieving SDG 12 will require collaboration across sectors and a strong national framework integrated into sector policies and plans, business practices, and consumer behavior. This will further necessitate adherence to international hazardous waste and chemical management norms.17
eBook - PDFAtlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017
From World Development Indicators
- World Bank(Author)
- 2017(Publication Date)
- World Bank(Publisher)
national and regional development planning Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017 113 11.b By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implement-ing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to cli-mate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels 11.c Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in build-ing sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials Goal 12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns 12.1 Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries 12.2 By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources 12.3 By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post- harvest losses 12.4 By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound manage-ment of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment 12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse 12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and trans-national companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle 12.7 Promote public procurement practices that are sus-tainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities 12.8
eBook - PDF- Stephen Scoffham(Author)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
While time will tell the effectiveness of the Sustainable Development Goals, the proactive language sets out a clear agenda for the role of education and institutions in actively promoting sustainable development. Sustainable development is commonly thought of as having three mutually support- ing dimensions – economic, social and environmental. These work together and link to the idea of quality of life for all, recognising that we live in an interconnected world. They also relate to some of the ‘big’ questions that geography seeks to answer, namely: n Where is this place? What is it like and why? n Why and how is it changing? What will it be like in the future? What kinds of futures do we want? n What do people do here? How are their actions influenced by, and how do they impact on, environments at different scales? n How is this place connected to other places? How am I connected to other people and places? n Who gets what, where, when and how? Who decides? n What’s it got to do with me? Why should I care? Sustainability education is relevant across the entire curriculum and is best approached through holistic teaching and learning. It has a particular association with geography and requires careful underpinning with geographical thinking and knowledge. Issues concern- ing sustainability and the environment have a values-led and affective base, often articulated as a need to ‘care for the world’, which can sometimes eclipse other necessary components of knowledge and critical thinking. While values and emotions are intrinsic and inescapable facets of sustainability, being properly equipped to respond to these issues also demands some degree of cognitive understanding about how and why human, biological and physical worlds interact with and affect each other.
eBook - PDFPlanetary Health
Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene
- Andy Haines, Howard Frumkin(Authors)
- 2021(Publication Date)
- Cambridge University Press(Publisher)
The question of whether sustained economic growth is even possible is addressed in Chapter 6, and as discussed later in this chapter, critics have claimed that the SDGs emphasize economic growth excessively relative to environmental sustainability and human well-being. But clearly, decent work for all is a laudable goal. Many countries are failing to create employment opportunities for young people, who are three times more likely to be unemployed than older adults. Globally, only 40% of employed people are women and they occupy only 25% of managerial positions. In those countries where data are available there is a gender pay gap of 12% (21). SDG 11 focuses on making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. Between 1990 and 2016, the proportion of the global urban population living in slums declined from 46% to 23%, but this improvement was largely offset by population growth and rural-to-urban migration. Currently over 800 million people still live in slums. About 2 billion people lack access to waste collection services and 3 billion to controlled waste disposal facilities. Only 18% of urban dwellers in SSA have convenient access to public transport (21). These conditions significantly undermine the health and well-being of those who live in slums (24). SDG 12 addresses sustainable consumption and production but has had little impact thus far. Material consumption has increased by over 250% since 1970 and the rate of extraction Health in the SDGs 223 of material resources has increased every year since 2000. Although SDG 13 is intended to support urgent action on climate change, its scope is limited as the Paris Agreement is the main vehicle for cutting GHG emissions and the financial flows to support adaptation and mitigation have so far been inadequate.
- Brian P. McCullough, Timothy Kellison, E. Nicole Melton, Brian P. McCullough, Timothy Kellison, E. Nicole Melton(Authors)
- 2022(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
SDGs as part of their own government policy and regulations. This has been highlighted as a critical component of promoting sustainability, as it not only creates the general awareness among key constituencies and the public, but also has led to the adoption and enforcement of certain sustainability goals among other partners and industries.Additionally, having a uniform set of sustainability goals being adopted by governments and other key stakeholders has also been cited as being beneficial for eliciting other interest groups to develop further initiatives to try and help meet these goals. At the same time, the UN does note that the global political climate has worsened since 2015 in relation to implementing the SDGs , especially as governments, such as the United States, have pushed back or even reversed important standards set for improving sustainability. In this sense, although there has been general progress in adoption and implementation, the backlash by a number of global powers has meant that it has fallen more to non-profit groups, industries, and common citizens to push for the implementation of sustainability goals.In specifically considering SDG 12 focused on ensuring sustainability consumption and production pattern (General Assembly, 2015 ), recent assessments paint a rather dire picture in terms of implementing and meeting this sustainability goal. Specifically, the UN noted that there was a greater than 5% increase in the worldwide consumption of materials from 2015 to 2017. Despite the increasing global population, the growth of material consumption continues to outstrip population growth, with the material footprint per capita having increased from 8.1 tons per person in 1990 to 12 tons per person in 2015. In this, the increased demand for natural resources around the globe continues to grow as more economies become involved in the global supply chain. From this, the UN insists that there is a need for greater adoption and implementation of the SDGs by national governments in order to make critical changes necessary for promoting sustainability. However, although there has been a significant increase in the number of policies that have been created by countries and regions around the world to try and meet sustainability goals, the general trend shows that at best they may only be softening the impact of increased demand for consumption, rather than reversing any trends that are detrimental to the environment. Furthermore, it should be highlighted that the effects of these sustainability issues also have crossed over into impacting other SDGs
Available until 27 Jan |Learn more- Jeffrey D. Sachs(Author)
- 2015(Publication Date)
- Columbia University Press(Publisher)
Build resilient infrastructure and promote sustainable industrialization. SDG 9 recognizes that many countries in the developing world lack key infrastructure: quality road networks, power grids, fiber grids (for the Internet), rail networks, and suitable ports and airports. Yet in the twenty-first century, having infrastructure will not be enough. It must also be sustainable, meaning resilient to environmental stresses and also “green” in that it imposes little pressure on the natural environment. Future infrastructure, for example, should support the transition to a decarbonized energy system by around 2070. Other targets under this goal call for improved innovation systems (to speed the development and diffusion of new technologies) and sustainable industrialization, especially in low-income regions such as sub-Saharan Africa where industrialization is still very low and incomplete.SDG 10: Reduce inequalities within and among countries. SDG 10 is a conceptual breakthrough for the world community: a globally shared recognition that large income gaps between the rich and the poor are highly deleterious for social stability, social trust, and protection of individual rights of the poor. Other targets under this goal emphasize the enhanced voice of poorer countries in global institutions and the facilitation of “orderly, safe, regular, and responsible migration,” something that alas is still far from being achieved.SDG 11: Make cities and human settlements sustainable. This goal represents the recognition of central governments that cities should pursue sustainable development in their own right. Partnerships among cities are now being formed to promote decarbonization and sustainable development. Targets also call for the protection of the world’s cultural heritage and steps to reduce the deaths and displacement from natural disasters.SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. The main idea of SDG 12 is to promote the “circular economy,” in which today’s wastes become tomorrow’s inputs and recycled products. Targets include the sound management of industrial chemicals, including the significant reduction of their release into the environment, and reducing the massive amount of food waste in today’s production and supply chains.SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
eBook - PDFTowards Sustainable Development
On the Goals of Development - and the Conditions of Sustainability
- Oluf Langhelle, W. Lafferty(Authors)
- 1999(Publication Date)
- Palgrave Macmillan(Publisher)
These conditions are further elaborated in Our Common Future, and they must be seen as essential qualifying conditions on what is otherwise seen as a strong economic-growth bias. They are also issues of key concern for Rio's 'global partnership for sustainable development'. Principle 7 of the Rio Decla- ration (United Nations, 1993b ), states that: 'The developed countries acknow- ledge the responsibility that they bear in the international pursuit of sustainable development in view of the pressures their societies place on the global environ- ment and of the technologies and financial resources they command.' This is followed up in Principle 8 with an admonition to the states of the world to 'reduce and eliminate unsustainable patterns of production and consumption and promote appropriate demographic policies'. These principles place a clear burden on Northern countries to examine their production and consumption patterns with respect to standards of sustainable development. The burden is also spelled out in Chapter 4 of Agenda 21 where the issue of 'changing consumption patterns' is related to other aspects of the action plan (energy, transportation, waste and the transfer of technology), but where the framers of the document also wanted to endow the topic with its own moral weight. We thus read that: Poverty and environmental degradation are closely interrelated. While poverty results in certain kinds of environmental stress, the major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised coun- tries, which is a matter of grave concern, aggravating poverty and imbalances (United Nations, 1993a:34).
eBook - PDF- United Nations(Author)
- 2023(Publication Date)
- United Nations(Publisher)
The proportion of key areas placed under conservation designation has increased since 2000. The 0.7% aid/GNI target for international aid has yet to be collectively achieved. Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The global material footprint per capita has increased. More efforts are needed to conserve and restore forests around the world. SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES Proportion of urban population living in slums (%) Learn more PROMOTION OF SUSTAINED ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 50 DETERMINED: REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE WORK OF THE ORGANIZATION 2023 “We need to work together across borders and strengthen multilateral action to achieve SDG 11 in times of crisis. More than ever, resilient cities and communities are needed in this age of urban crisis.” Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director, UN-Habitat “Addressing the challenges of the most vulnerable States is not only a moral imperative, but also an economic and political one. And let’s be clear, we have the means and tools to do it.” Rabab Fatima, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States 50 PROMOTION OF SUSTAINED ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DETERMINED: REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE WORK OF THE ORGANIZATION 2023 51 LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND We worked to uphold the Organization’s commitment that everyone should have an equal chance for sustainable development, focusing especially on marginalized and vulnerable groups. In 2022, we helped to launch more than 100 development initiatives in the context of the road map for the accelerated implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action in the remaining five years. This international agreement supports landlocked developing countries in addressing climate change, disaster risks and gender inequality.
- Pia Katila, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Wil de Jong, Glenn Galloway, Pablo Pacheco, Georg Winkel(Authors)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- Cambridge University Press(Publisher)
A bias has tended towards relatively weak measures. Currently, SDG 12 has no specific direct reference to forests or forest-dependent people among its targets or indicators, despite linkages between sustainable forest management and agricultural commodity supply. These linkages have implications for deforestation and forest degradation. * Lead author. SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production 387 The significant links between SCP and forests have yet to receive suffi- cient attention among the expert and policy communities. Although SDG 12 is considered a major contributor to the protection and enhancement of natural resources, including forests (FAO 2018), and is seen to be particularly relevant to the supply of forest products (Brack 2018), ‘progress towards this goal has so far been very limited’ (Brack 2018: 5). This chapter’s overall findings align with the above assessments by FAO and the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF). Achieving SDG 12 targets can contribute to improving forest conservation and sustainable manage- ment by reducing pressures from forest-risk commodities (e.g. palm oil, soy, cacao, beef) and incentivising sustainable supply of forest products (e.g. tim- ber, pulp and paper), leading to slowing or reducing current impacts. The SDG 12 targets in Table 12.1 do not suggest any direct trade-offs that could emerge between achieving the SDG 12 targets and protecting for- est ecosystem functions and services. However, depending on how govern- ments and the private sector address SDG 12 in the forests and forest-risk commodities’ supply and value-chain governance, there can be issues of leakage and indirect social impacts (e.g. exclusion of smallholders and for- est-dependent communities), resulting in trade-offs with SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities).
eBook - ePub- Marion I Tobler-Rohr(Author)
- 2011(Publication Date)
- Woodhead Publishing(Publisher)
1Sustainable development (SD) as a goal in production, marketing and trade
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A brief overview on the multiple definitions and understanding of the term sustainable development is given: as a philosophy, as a scientific decision-making tool, but also as a belief of persons and policy to be applied in practice. It shows how theoretical concepts are translated and simplified into applications for authorities and the private sector. Some commonly used instruments like environmental management systems and labeling systems, environmental product declaration and eco design are introduced on how to identify, measure, quantify, and communicate environmental aspects in our everyday life and in science. Specific attention in this area is drawn to the textile sector.Key words sustainable development environmental policy environmental indicators environmental management systems eco labelingThis chapter is for managers developing SD marketing strategies, for politicians developing SD policy, and for authorities setting the framework for SD in the textile sector.1.1 A holistic concept
Is ‘sustainable development’ an overstressed expression? It has become very trendy to use the term sustainability for underlining any turnaround leading to a ‘golden age’. Also it is generally agreed that ‘sustainable development’ (SD) characterizes a process towards a goal which cannot be defined very precisely. ‘Sustainable’ is often used synonymously with having a ‘serious intention’ or being ‘long lasting’. There is no way to prevent people from applying words and terms in their own language, whereby the meaning can be completely changed. Similar ambiguities can be found in the terms ‘environment’ (in economy or ecology) and ‘product life cycle’ (again in economy or ecology). Consequently the question arises whether the term ‘sustainable development’ should be replaced by another expression. This must be denied for three reasons: first, it will not be easy to find an acceptable term; second, a new term could be applied in a misleading way; and third, a long-lasting process like sustainable development should not be renamed while it is in action. But now: what is ‘sustainable development’ all about?
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