Sustainable consumption and tourism

Sustainable consumption and production patterns

Governments should support training in sustainable consumption towards a sustainable lifestyle and follow up initiatives, including networks and small grants.

Governments should support training in sustainable consumption towards a sustainable lifestyle and follow up initiatives, including networks and small grants.

What strategies, tools and actors should be involved in promoting sustainable consumption in tourism?

How can sustainable production and consumption in the tourism sector be promoted by Governments?

Promote sustainable consumption and production patterns as called for in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

Increasing the proportion of re used plastics is a crucial step toward more sustainable plastics consumption.

Implementation of a regional programme on sustainable production and consumption in Latin America and the Caribbean

In order to achieve global sustainable development, governments, international organizations, the private sector and the main stakeholders must promote new patterns of sustainable production and consumption.

Both factors challenge us to define, in the longer term, more sustainable patterns of production and consumption.

Consumption will remain restrained, while strong and sustainable recovery cannot be based on another debt fueled bubble.

The work of the Forum, and the objectives of sustainable forest management, are inextricably linked to sustainable consumption and the production of timber and non timber forest products.

In a world that is reliant on plastics, more sustainable production, consumption, and disposal of plastic products is crucial.

Increasingly, such agreements are including green or sustainability clauses incorporated into best practice models for sustainable production and consumption.

States should recognize the rights of indigenous peoples to food and nutritional security and the sustainable production and consumption of healthy and nutritious foods by using appropriate sustainable technology.

Obama has emphasized the need for a green recovery, that is, one based on sustainable technologies, not merely on consumption spending.

(a) Convening two expert group meetings on formulating and consolidating a regional strategy on sustainable consumption and production with all stakeholders

It would also be hosting the second International Expert Meeting on the 10 Year Framework of Programmes for Sustainable Consumption and Production.

It is planning to organize an expert meeting on promotion of sustainable consumption patterns through cultural values and traditional lifestyles in the region.

The crisis can yet be an opportunity to turn from a path of financial bubbles and excessive consumption to a path of sustainable development.

Growth is not just a matter of increasing GDP. It must be sustainable growth based on environmental degradation, a debt financed consumption binge, or the exploitation of scarce natural resources, without reinvesting the proceeds, is not sustainable.

We are also working closely with the Confederation of Food and Drinks Industries in Europe on its European Food Sustainable Production and Consumption Round Table.

Achieving a sustainable pattern of growth requires choices that affect not just the level of aggregate demand, but also its composition for example, investment versus consumption.

Sustainable consumption in tourism integrates sustainability issues in the selection of destinations and service providers and in the tourists' behaviour during their stay at the destination.

(v) Special events national and regional events to promote implementation of sustainable consumption and production projects, policies and methods by Governments and business, and for youth (5)

The move symbolically rejected what the incoming government abandoned upon assuming office Gandhi s vision of an equitable and sustainable agrarian society based on self sufficient, pared down consumption.

Due to the significant impact that transportation services have on a city s energy consumption, the last decade has seen an increasing emphasis on sustainable transportation by developmental experts.

Provision of decent and secure shelter and of safe drinking water and basic sanitation are key contributors to sustainable consumption and production, as well as to household welfare.

Consumption

4. Invites the international community to support, as appropriate, including by providing financial resources, the efforts of developing countries to move towards sustainable patterns of energy production and consumption

Noting the convening in Marrakesh, Morocco, from 16 to 19 June 2003, of an international expert meeting on a ten year framework of programmes for sustainable consumption and production,

Baseline as the average consumption in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 Freeze on consumption in 2002 20 reduction in consumption in 2005 Phase out of consumption by 2015.

Baseline as the average consumption in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 Freeze on consumption in 2002 20 reduction in consumption in 2005 Phase out of consumption by 2015.

Replace indicator of achievement (b) (i) with the following (i) Progress in the achievement of United Nations objectives and goals on sustainable development, in particular those related to water, sanitation and human settlements, and the 10 year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production .

5. Invites the international community to support, as appropriate, by, inter alia, providing financial resources, the efforts of developing countries to move towards sustainable patterns of energy production and consumption

In this regard, the Forum should explore ways and means to foster closer linkages with the Commission on Sustainable Development, and other forums, that deal with consumption and production patterns.

The CEB High level Committee on Programmes also endorsed the 10 year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production as the basis for inter agency cooperation in this area.

Happy consumption

This implies that the pre crisis level of GDP simply was not sustainable, as it required capital inflows in excess of 20 of GDP to finance outsize consumption and construction booms.

Section II examines the linkages between sustainable forest management and the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals relating to poverty eradication, health, environmental sustainability, consumption and production patterns and energy.

As part of the Sustainable consumption and production Action Plan, adopted by the European Commission last July, we supported the establishment of a Retail Environmental Forum among producers and retailers in Europe.

Only by combining growing Chinese consumption with enhanced Chinese manufacturing will the country be able to develop a new comparative advantage, which is the key to sustainable growth over the next decade.

(c) Facilitating the exchange of information among regional and global programmes and initiatives on SCP supporting and consolidating the work of the Regional Council of Government Experts on Sustainable Consumption and Production

Notes the convening of the Second International Expert Meeting on the Ten year Framework of Programmes for Sustainable Consumption and Production in San José, Costa Rica, from 5 to 8 September 2005