A step closer to changing our behaviour

'Green Week', the biggest annual conference devoted to European environmental policy, took place this year from the 3rd-6th June, in the Charlemagne building, Brussels. As part of the session on SCP and the European Commission’s Action Plan, head of the CSCP, Michael Kuhndt, gave a presentation on the worldwide SCP perspective.

The project "Environmental Governance Standards for Development Financing Institutions" (EGS) has received honourable mention in the Developing Nation category of the 2008 "Associations Make A Better World" awards by the Washington D.C.-based American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and the Center for Association Leadership.

Businesses have the potential to make a contribution to SCP, from employee-level to technological solutions provided by IT. Read more in the Green Guide where the CSCP contributed a chapter on extending the view of corporate environmental management.

A Manual for Efficient Lighting Procurement in UN agencies

Saving for a Bright Future is a technical manual issued by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration with the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP).

Sharing of progress and ideas at an international conference held in Vilnius, Lithuania 19th-20th March 2008.

Discussing how Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) can become a reality was the focus of the international conference on SCP held this year from 19th-20th March in Vilnius, Lithuania. Around 150 experts from national public institutions, civil society and businesses gathered to exchange information, experience and suggestions on different approaches to SCP in business and po [...]