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.

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).

With a new "Product Survey" launched at the CeBIT trade exhibition on electronics, Greenpeace International challenges the IT industry on the environmental performance of their products.

The Sustainable Entrepreneur Programme aims at developing and implementing a one-year part-time leadership programme on sustainable entrepreneurship. It will promote new enterprises, whose core activities are centered on creating social and/or environmental benefits. Especially due to the rising number of people who focus their lifestyles on health and sustainability (LOHAS) there is a growing market e.g. for organic food or ethical fashion as well as a growing number of business ideas in the fi [...]

Successful conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 27-28 September

The forthcoming EU Action Plan on Sustainable Consumption and Production should include clear sustainability targets, concrete steps to internalise environmental costs into prices and a Directive on green public procurement. These were three top-priority recommendations identified during the discussions last week at the conference “Time for Action – Towards Sustainable Consumption and Production in Europe” which brought together  [...]