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Objectives of Sustainable Consumption and Production - Coggle Diagram
Objectives of Sustainable Consumption
and Production
Decoupling Environmental Degradation and Economic Growth
Doing More (goods and services) and better with Less (resource use, environmental degradation, waste, and pollution) (UNEP, n.d.)
Introduction to Decoupling
Decoupling occurs when the growth rate of an environmental pressure is less than the economic driving force over a period of time (OCED Environment Programme, n.d.)
Two Types of Decoupling
Relative Decoupling: when the growth rate of the environmentally relevant variable is positive, but less than the growth rate of the economic variable (OCED Environment Programme, n.d.)
Absolute Decoupling: when the relevant environmental pressure is stable or decreasing while the economic force is growing (OCED Environment Programme, n.d.)
Achieved in part by a huge investment in technological, financial, and social innovation to freeze per capita consumption in wealthy countries and help developing countries follow a more sustainable path. (UNEP, n.d.)
Applying Life Cycle Thinking
(LCT)
Increasing the sustainable management of resources and achieving resource efficiency across the lifespan. (UNEP, n.d.)
Understanding Life Cycle Thinking
Made operational through Life Cycle Management
Helps minimizes the environmental and social burdens associated with a product during it's lifetime (Life Cycle Initiative, 2020)
Main Goals of LCT
Reduce a product's resource use and emissions to the environment (Life Cycle Initiative, 2020)
Improve a product's socio-economic performance through it's life cycle (Life Cycle Initiative, 2020)
Calls attention to the raw materials used, supply chains, product use, the effects of disposing, and possible uses for reuse or recycling. (EU Ecolabel, 2010, p.8)
Sizing Opportunities for Developing Countries and "Leapfrogging"
Poverty eradication and "leapfrog" towards more efficient, green economies (UNEP, n.d.)
Creation of new markets green and decent jobs with a more efficient, welfare-generating natural resource management. (UNEP, n.d)
Benefits
Economic Benefits- generating income, reduce of cost, transfer of skills/technology, and promotion of innovation among domestic producers. (UNEP, n.d.)
Social Benefits- reduction in poverty, improvement in equity, and respect for labor standards. (UNEP, n.d.)
Carried out through Sustainable Public Procurement, which encourages governments to deliver key objectives and send strong market signals to companies that aid in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improve resource efficiency, and support recycling. (UNEP, n.d.)
"Leapfrogging": the movement towards more resource efficient and environmentally sound and competitive practices. (UNEP, n.d.)
Technological Leapfrogging
Works to bypass the inefficient, polluting, and costly phases of developing countries through these new practices. (UNEP, n.d.)
