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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30th and 31st January 2012, Bonn The 3rd Bonn Conference on International Development Policy is acknowledging the growing importance of the topic of global and sustainable lifestyles. It will focus on the connections between lifestyles and consumption habits and living conditions in developing countries... Read more
21th June and 27th September 2012
Wuppertal, Germany
After its successfull kickoff, in November 2011, the innovative workshop series ”Sustainable Business Models 2030“ will move into the second phase: In 2012, the CSCP in cooperation with GS1, the CSCP is going to deliver two additional strategic workshops, which aim to inspire current business practitioners on how to advantageously innovate their business strategies in the upcoming years, by experiencing a virtual future world in the year 2030.
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24th – 25th October 2011, Farnham, UK: ‘State of the Art‘ in Sustainable Innovation & Design - Part of the 'Towards Sustainable Product Design' series of conferences Sustainable Innovation 11will provide a platform to discuss the opportunities and challenges related to sustainable innovation, technology, product and service design and development. Sustainable Innovation 11 will include invited and refereed papers from academics, consultants, entrepreneurs, investors, technology providers, designers, sustainability, environment and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) managers as well as other business functions. The event will be a unique learning experience, networking space and will pr [...] Read more
Workstudio - "Innovation Towards Sustainable Entrepreneurship Sustainable Consumption And Production In The ICT Sector”
CSCP, Instituto Akatu (2012)
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Rio+20 Green Economy NRW - Global denken – Lokal handeln in NRW
Brüggemann (2012)
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Sustainable Lifestyles: Today’s Facts & Tomorrow’s Trends
Backhaus/Breukers/Mont/Paukovic/Mourik (2012)
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Advanced Sustainable Public Procurement in Urban China
Philipps/Espert/Eichhorst (2011)
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Unter der Lupe - 60 Projektideen zu nachhaltigem Konsum und zukünftigen Lebensstilen
Groezinger/Kuhndt (2011)
Was denken, was zeigen, was sagen? - Medienmacher und Nachhaltigkeit
Müller/Georgi/Schneider/Guillen (2011)
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Create Impact! Handbook for Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Pascual/van Klink/Rozo Grisales (2011)
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Sustainable Public Procurement in Urban China
How the Government as Consumer Can Drive SCP (2011)
Roadmap for better living
A chance to shape a different future (2011)