Welcome to CSCP
The Centre provides scientific support to activities undertaken by UNEP and other organisations in the field of SCP. This support includes the development, testing, implementation and monitoring of concrete projects, especially in developing countries, which enables these countries to leapfrog to sustainable consumption and production patterns using life cycle thinking and regional perspectives as guiding principles.
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LATEST NEWS
Award for Environmental Governance Standards Project
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. The "Associations Make A Better World" awards competition recognises outstanding association programmes, projects and activities that make a significant contribution to societies and economies worldwide. The 2008 award will be given at the ASAE & the Center's Annual Meeting in San Diego, California on August 16-19, 2008.
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Green Guide now online
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.
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Saving for a bright future
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). The manual provides convincing and factual arguments tailored to UN offices on cost saving options through more efficient lighting. The manual targets building managers, procurement officers, environmental officers and staff. It provides advice and guidance from the most ambitious to the simple and affordable measures as well as case studies based on UN agencies’ experiences (UN Offices in Vienna and Nai [...] Read more
Recent Publications
Integrating Sustainability Themes into Media
Tools for the Public Sector (2010)
Satisfying Basic Needs
Respecting the Earth's Limits (2009)
A Key Solution to Climate Change: SCP
Making the Link (2009)
Partnerships for Sustainable Consumption
DGCN Publication: Partnerships for Sustainable Consumption (2009)
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