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Greenpeace challenges IT companies on consumption issues

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.

For its "Product Survey", Greenpeace has assessed 37 best-practice products from 14 companies, among these cell phones, handhelds and laptops. Company participation was voluntary. The rating covers issues like toxicity, recyclability and energy efficiency. A team by CSCP and the Wuppertal Institute has supported Greenpeace in developing the indicators relating to energy.

Greenpeace also regularly publishes the "Guide to Greener Electronics", a company rating on product sus [...] Read more

Leadership Programme for Sustainable Entrepreneurship

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 field of sustainability.

Sustainable Entrepreneurs very often operate apart from mainstream business and therefore are in need of a particular training programme, which accounts for their specific c [...] Read more

Resource Productivity in Global Value Chains

Resource efficiency and resource productivity issues are receiving growing attention worldwide. Reasons include recent resource scarcities and rising prices of certain commodities as well as the contribution of resource consumption to climate change.

As value chains become global, resources increasingly flow across national boundaries during the different phases in value chains. Extraction, manufacturing, consumption and end-of-life treatment often happen in different countries or even continents.

Strategies and best practices for public and private actors are thus needed that actively consider international perspectives and interdependencies. These could extend national achievements  [...] Read more

Vienna Conference on "Efficiency, Environment & Employment 2006"

On occasion of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, SERI (Austria) will organise a two days conference in cooperation with CSCP to reflect more recent developments and synergies between economic efficiency, environment and employment. The conference will take place in Vienna, Austria on 8/9 June 2006. Read more

Contributions to European Actions for sustainable energy use

The CSCP prepared a background paper entitled "Sustainable Energy Consumption" for the European Conference under the Marrakech Process on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP).

This event took place in Berlin on 13-14 December 2005 with attendance of 70 experts from around Europe. Aiming to move the Marrakech Process forward by concretising actions in European countries, the participants focused on SCP in the field of energy use, and shared information on ongoing activities and identify priority areas as well as potential gaps in policies and tools.

The background paper provides an outline of the technical and economic potential for making energy consumption sustainable an [...] Read more