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CSCP brings together low-carbon city initiatives in China

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:37:00 +0200

On April 15, 2013 thirty leading low-carbon city development experts and international representatives convened in Beijing to exchange perspectives on the future of China's urbanisation megatrend. The CSCP and Tsinghua moderators helped this leading group lay a foundation for future collaboration efforts. Interactive workshop enables co-creation of tangible outputs As a first step, moderators Professor Wang Can (Tsinghua University) and Sebastian Philipps (CSCP) facilitated an exercise to map existing Chinese low-carbon city initiatives and the range of mechanisms that have been applied to achieve their low carbon goals. Together, participants explored ways to foster exchange and synergies among projects and their diverse implementation mechanisms. Focus areas for the workshop included pilot implementation, scientific research, stakeholder dialogue, capacity building, and the application of market and economic instruments. By means of a World Café session, the group formulated concrete pathways toward the institutionalisation of the exchange of ideas and the involvement of additional stakeholders. During a final group session, representatives agreed on a set of criteria for viable exchanges and designed their first transfer of ideas around these criteria. In the end both the Chinese and Western participants stressed their strong support for the interactive and co-creation oriented format, and underlined their confidence in building upon this foundation in the future. Significant demand for collaboration to support low-carbon cities in China The workshop attracted triple the number of participants than originally planned. In all some thirty representatives attended the workshop. Attendees included the World Resource Institute, WWF, the EC Delegation in Beijing, GIZ, Ecofys, Germanwatch, E3G, CER, the Chinese Society of Sustainable Development, the Administrative Centre for China's Agenda 21, CECEP, CMA, NRDC, the Climate Group, CANGO, and Stiftung Mercator. Despite the significant demand, workshop organisers needed to limit the number of participants to retain the workshop’s desired interactive format. This popularity and the results of the day revealed a substantial stakeholder interest in collaborating and the large potential for synergies in China. Workshop organisers from the Wuppertal Institute, the moderating partners, and Stiftung Mercator, the project donor, are now working to evaluate potential next steps toward further exchange, collaboration and institutionalisation. Project experience motivated the workshop The inspiration for this workshop on Low Carbon City Initiatives evolved out of the experience of the Low Carbon Future Cities Project that was also funded by Stiftung Mercator. That project supported collaboration on low-carbon development in Wuxi (PR China) and Düsseldorf (Germany).

Workshop: Sustainability-driven innovation in the ICT sector

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:59:00 +0200

What opportunities does sustainability-driven innovation offer the ICT sector? What environmental and social sustainability trends will drive the technology sector in the coming years? What are emerging expectations of ICT sector stakeholders and thought leaders? How can new business value be drawn from sustainability issues? What types of strategic partnerships can be entered into? These are just some of the issues facing the ICT sector today. To move the industry forward with a sustainability driven growth agenda, Deutsche Telekom and the CSCP are organising a Sustainable ICT Innovation workshop. This event will bring together external experts and representatives from a number of Deutsche Telekom units, including:

Products & Innovation; Telekom Laboratories
Group Transformational Change and Corporate Responsibility
New Business Areas Energy; E-Health and Connected Car
Group Partnering Strategy
Telekom Mobility Solutions
Group Strategy
Procurement

The workshop will explore emerging opportunities for sustainability-driven innovation in the ICT sector and future-oriented business models and the potential of strategic partnerships. The workshop will be held June 7, 2013 at the Deutsche Telekom headquarters in Bonn.

For more information please contact:

Jadwiga Zurad • Project Manager

+49 (202) 459 58 54 • jadwiga.zurad@scp-centre.org

Share a ticket to the Sharing Economy Conference 2013

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:32:00 +0200

We care for share - After the world's largest fair for IT and telecommunication, CeBIT, chose the theme 'Shareconomy' for this year's fair, everybody knows and seems to love collaborative consumption. On May 13th the Sharing Economy Conference 2013 in Berlin once again puts it in the very centre of the event. What influence does the trend towards sustainable consumption and the loss of importance of status symbols have on alternative ways of consumption and the sharing economy? How do experts and entrepreneurs evaluate and react on the economical power of sharing, swapping, and lending? And how can you become an active part of it? These questions will be discussed at the Sharing Economy Conference in Berlin on May, 13th 2012 with a variety of case studies, workshops and jam sessions for start-ups, among them a CSCP-led workshop. Some topics will be:

From hyper consumption to collaborative consumption - What will the consumer of the future be like?
New consumer behaviour requires new business models and solutions - When sharing becomes a business model
Enabled by the internet - How the web and social networks professionalize the sharing economy
Commercialized sharing - Impact and side effects of your business
Trust is the currency - Communication strategies and recommendations
Collaborative Consumption culture for a better world – The potential of saving ressources of 'use-instead-of-own'-models

Find a more detailes description here. Take this intresting opportunity to discuss with stars and start-ups of the sharing economy by signing in on the event at the Sharing Economy website.
Or share your ticket with a colleague and get it for half the price till April 10th 2013.

A successful cooperation and many promising dialogues

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:52:00 +0200

Today the Industrial Green Tec at the Hannover Fair comes to an end. The CSCP can look back on a week full of many promising dialogues and a successful cooperation.

	Even at the last day of the Hannover Fair, friday, April 12th 2013, the CSCP stand was visited by a lot of visitors and further exhibitors intrested in sustainable innovation.
	Besides gaining new contacts and fruitful dialogues at the stand, the CSCP team was spreading the idea of sustainable innovation also among all the other exhibitors from renewable energy providers to actors in the field of metropolitan infrastructure management. One of our partners, Material ConneXion Cologne was presenting best practices of material solutions also at the Industrial Green Tec. Vestamid terra, biowaste polyamides, was this visitors favourite. Being asked CSCP's leading question, what sustainable innovation would mean to him, the answer was: Biopolymers without competition with food crops.
	Sarah Beckers from the CSCP and Jamie O'Hare from Granta Design agreed at the end of the week: The cooperation at the Hannover Fair 2013 was very successful and both are looking forward to next years Industrial Green Tec.

Wuppertal mayor visits CSCP at the Hannover Fair

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:40:00 +0200

„In 2050 I will be 95!“ – Peter Jung, mayor of the city of Wuppertal, was impressed by the Vision 2050 approach of the CSCP when visiting the stand at the Industrial Green Tec in Hall 6 of the Hannover Fair. How industry can provide sustainable innovation to enable also sustainable lifestyles both now and in 40 years time, this is the topic, the CSCP is spreading among the various stakeholders at the fair.

Also policy makers as the delegation of the Wuppertal mayor are interested in the collaborative concept of looking into the whole value chain on the way towards sustainable consumption and production. So it is not astonishing, that the mayor was very open towards further exchange on the topic.

CSCP kicks off at Green Tec - Hannover Fair

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:55:00 +0200

The CSCP stand is ready for all the visitor who came by already today. After the first day of the fair the CSCP delegation has had first interesting discussions with business as well as media representatives posing the starting question „What is sustainable innovation?“. We caught some first impressions in the following pictures.

If you are also in Hannover these days, we would be happy to welcome you a tour stand at the Industrial GreenTec in Hall 6 in the Kompetenzzentrum or follow our activities here or on facebook or twitter.

	The CSCP/Granta fair team is welcoming you at the joint stand in Hall 6 in the Kompetenzzentrum.
	At the joint stand of CSCP and Granta you can calculate your personal material footprint, so besides the information and fruitful dialogue on sustainable innovation you may get some inspiration for your own lifestyle if you follow the blue steps!
	Monday it already got busy at the CSCP stand.

Collaboration on a new basis

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:06:00 +0200

In 2012 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) started to revise the legal and administrative basis of its worldwide network of Collaborating Centres in order to cater for evolving needs and nature of the collaboration. In doing so the previous Memorandum of Understanding between UNEP and the Wuppertal Institute which relates to the “UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption & Production (CSCP)” was terminated. Currently UNEP and the CSCP are exploring new ways of collaboration towards achieving the goals set out at Rio plus 20. The Centre's name has therefore changed to the "Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production".

Sharing Economy as a New Business Strategy

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:10:00 +0100

How to increase value by sharing products? This is the core question, which international participants discussed in two sessions hosted by the CSCP at the World Business Dialogue. Shareconomy is the key theme of the CEBIT 2013. Collaborative Consumption has been considered one of the key concepts that might change the world we live in by the Time Magazine. In two sessions participants from business and university discussed the concept, the success factors, and barriers of a sharing economy at a global level on March 14, 2013 in Cologne. Speakers where representatives from various initiatives of the Sharing Economy:

Michael Minis, CEO of Tamyca (peer-to-peer car sharing)
Roman Padiwy and Christian Schmitt from Crealiity (swapping of capabilities and skills)
Christina Pielmeyer, DriveNow (car sharing founded by BMW and Sixt)
Kim Tjoa and Laury Zwart, Floow2 (B2B-online market place)

The participants discussed what is needed for consumers to move towards a Sharing Economy, such as trust, transparency, physical communities and best practice examples. From an environmental perspective there are benefits, like reduced emissions, less resources, product innovation; yet also framework conditions such as infrastructures need to be considered for these benefits to play out. It was controversially discussed, if the sharing economy also works for emerging economies and developing countries. B2B Shareconomy: With trust and flexibility As a key aspect it was stated that sharing often is even more embedded in the culture, however parameters, such as trust building might work differently, which is important as trust is the key to adapt solutions to cultural contexts. Last but not least results of the discussions showed, that collaborative consumption can also work for business to business, especially for SMEs, yet this also requires a change in values and higher flexibility in the companies. Slides: The Sharing Economy - A new way of doing business? Website: World Business Dialogue

Come visit us at the Industrial GreenTec

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:32:00 +0100

The CSCP takes part for the second time as exhibitor at the Industrial Green Tec 2013. The Centre would like to connect actors at the fair around the theme of sustainability and would like to discuss topics such as consumer oriented CSR communication, as well as sustainable entrepreneurship and innovative green technologies. The CSCP will offer at the fair several expert interviews and various tools for sustainable product development and -innovation.

Industrial GreenTec 2013, Hannover, Germany, April 8th-12th

Come Visit us at the 'Kompetenzzentrum' in Hall 6, G30

Click here for free tickets

Please be sure to register and activate your ticket online. Print and show your ticket at the entrance of the fair grounds.

The eTicket is valid for the entire duration of HANNOVER MESSE 2013 - also for free public transport to/from the show in the Greater Hannover (GVH) region on the day of attendance.

The CSCP will collaborate this year at the IndustrialGreenTec with Granta Design. Granta Design is the world leader in materials information technology. Their software tools, materials data, and materials database solutions help engineering enterprises to:

Manage critical materials data
Enable better materials decisions
Design for environmental objectives and regulations
Provide materials support for engineering design, analysis, and simulation

Granta also supports materials education, providing a unique set of teaching resources that are used at over 800 universities and colleges around the world to train the next generation of engineers, materials scientists, and product designers.

More information about Granta Design

More information about the IndustrialGreenTec 2013

Last year's impressions from the Industrial GreenTec:

The CSCP theme for the Green Tec 2012 was

"Vision 2050 - how can companies contribute to a more sustainable future?"

The ideas were collected at the Sustainable City Map:

APG Workshop: “Sustainable Planning”

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:24:00 +0100

On Friday, February 22nd, the Accounting Planning Group (APG) will organize the workshop "Sustainable Planning” in Hamburg, Germany. A number of marketing and CSR experts from different companies and institutions, among them Neil Coles, a former international marketing manager, will participate during this workshop. Neil is a Consultant and Project Leader at the Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production, will be speaking about the status quo of consumption and production in the context of sustainable development. Registration is still possible here. Other participants will be:

Christoph Harrach, Founder, Karmakonsum
Monica Focks, Senior Manager Corporate Responsibility, Tchibo
Benjamin Köhler, Projektmanager Sustainability, Otto
Ina Andree, Senior Expert Marketing Communication Strategy, Deutsche Telekom
Fred Luks, Author and Head of Corporate Sustainability, Bank Austria/UniCredit
Norbert Lux, Founder, Green Brands
Neil Coles, Senior Consultant, Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP)
Christiane Stöhr, Founder, Scholz & Friends Reputation

Moderation: Stefan Hermann Siemer, Ambulanz für neue Kommunikation The focus of the workshop is based on the two sides of sustainability planning: Sustainability branding and responsible planning Topics covered will range from market positioning, media, best and worst case practices to professional ethics and personal point of views, brand and communication strategies. The workshop addresses experienced strategist of agencies and companies with at least 5 years of experience. Date, place and time:   Friday, 22nd February 2013, 9.30 to 18.30, 25hours Hotel HafenCity Überseeallee 5 20457 Hamburg    For more information please also see:
http://www.apgd.de/14611/apg-sustainability-planning-workshop/ Register here

Become a ‘CSR- and Sustainability Manager’

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:54:00 +0100

An Academy organized by Euroforum and the CSCP aims to train sustainability experts to implement and communicate sustainability within their companies. The CSCP will be hosting a 2-day workshop in the 5-day seminar “CSR and Sustainabaility Manager”. It provides an overview of all relevant aspects within the context of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It targets CSR representatives from business and larger organisations.

The seminar is structured along the key aspects of CSR:

The business case for CSR
Stakeholder Engagement
CSR and Sustainability Reporting
Workshop: Developing a CSR Strategy

The 2-day workshop on the development of a CSR strategy is hosted by the CSCP.

It is designed as an interactive and practice-oriented module that focuses on implementing successful sustainability strategies and CSR in companies. Some of the key topics that will be explored, include among others:

How to establish sustainability in your company in the long term and boost its business venture success by means of CSR?
How to effectively communicate sustainability in your own and to other departments using creative tools like e.g. visualization?
How to engage important stakeholders and communicate the concept to different types of entrepreneurs?
How to empower yourself, your colleagues and other departments to embrace the topic of CSR and strengthen your company’s capacity for sustainability-driven innovation and corporate intrapreneurship?

Participants that will successfully pass the test on the last day of the seminar will be awarded a certificate of a ‘CSR- and Sustainability Manager’ by Euroforum.

‘Kompakt-Lehrgang zum Nachhaltigkeits-Experten im Unternehmen’

(Compact Seminar for Becoming a Sustainability Expert in Your Company). on March 18-20 2013 and on April 23-24 2013 in Düsseldorf in German language. Registration & further information In order to register please download the flyer with the registration form.
Please register through this form only.

For more information please contact:

Nadine Pratt • Team Leader Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship

+49 (202) 459 58 10 • nadine.pratt@scp-centre.org

Take the challenge: Tell your sustainable success story

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:48:00 +0100

In the SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 project we are mapping the road towards sustainable lifestyles in Europe in the year 2050. But how could we know, what might or might not happen in more than 35 years? What helped us foresee a possible future were pioneer projects that are already making European lives more sustainable today.

When can we have a world we like?
These promising examples show, that we could have a world we like with a climate we like already today. Now the EU decided to take it on a more practical level with the EU Commission's climate action campaign A world you like. With a climate we like.

"Move beyond mere talking"
In this context, Connie Hedegaard, EU Commissioner for Climate Action, has just launched a low-carbon contest, calling on creative and innovative minds from across the EU to put their existing green initiatives to the test. Commissioner Hedegaard said:

"The Challenge is a great opportunity to move beyond mere talking about climate change. By submitting your project, you help us show that building a world we like with a climate we like is both feasible and affordable. And it won't make our lives dull and grey.”

Tell your story and gain recognition!
During the next three months, you can submit your own low-carbon success story for the World You Like Challenge. All projects, big or small, coming from individuals or organisations based in an EU Member State will be considered, provided that their main aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This could be an electric bike that serves to transport goods; an innovative production process that drives down greenhouse gas emissions and energy bills; sustainable buildings or heating solutions. Across Europe there is a plethora of practical examples of a low-carbon way of life that help the climate while also improving our quality of life. The World You Like Challenge aims at providing a platform to showcase these projects and to honour the most creative, practical and effective ones.

Listen up, Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal!
The campaign has a special focus on five countries – Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal. In these countries, national winners will see their projects featured in a national billboard campaign in autumn 2013. Moreover the three overall winners will be honoured at the Sustainia Award Ceremony in Copenhagen in October 2013.

Background:
The contest is part of the campaign A world you like. With a climate you like, which the CSCP is a partner of. Since its launch in October 2012, the campaign has attracted more than 20.000 followers on social media and more than 130 official partners including public authorities, non-governmental organisations, academia and businesses. It aims to showcase existing cost-efficient solutions for achieving the EU's objective of an 80-95% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, as well as to encourage new solutions.

You can directly access the Challenge here.

More information on the campaign and the contest, including selection criteria, can be found on the campaign website.

SPREAD starts activating the roadmap to Sustainable Lifestyles 2050

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:50:00 +0100

The final conference of the SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 Project, coordinated by the CSCP, was a big success. Over 220 experts, policymakers, activists, business representatives and scientists from all over Europe came together to learn about the project’s findings from state of the art research on impacts, behaviour change, social innovation and policy to a future vision to more sustainable lifestyles in Europe. Vision for sustainable future came to life The meeting put action at the centre of the dialogue with experts and practitioners invited to share their views, ideas and recommendations to activate the EU Sustainable Lifestyles Roadmap and Action Plan to 2050. The conference aimed to share a new vision for a sustainable, inclusive and green growth economy in Europe that supports societies of diverse lifestyles that minimize impact on the environment while continuing to improve health, well being and quality of life. It sought to bring that vision to life through future scenarios of sustainable living acted out on stage; with a life-size roadmap offering ideas, opportunity spaces and recommendations for policy-makers, businesses, and civil society organisations to activate the drivers of change towards more sustainable living and through the stories of practitioners whose initiatives are already enabling more sustainable living.

CSCP's SPREAD team with material footprint map

Individual material footprint

On the individual level, most participants took the chance to calculate their personal material footprint in the market place or receive a copy of the magazine EUROPEAN LIFESTYLES - The Future Issue which presents all project outcomes in a very colourful and easy way.

Click here to calculate your own material footprint and see pictures of the conference.

Commissioner: Europe’s important role Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, underlined in her welcome keynote the importance of the SPREAD Roadmap and Action Plan for 2050. She acknowledged that SPREAD is at the forefront of the efforts to enable sustainable living in 2050 refering to the important role of Europe to demonstrate to the world that sustainable living is possible and desirable and the importance of policies that support the transition to a sustainable, inclusive and green economy in Europe. Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero, Principal Administrator at the EC, Social Sciences and Humanities Programme, Directorate General for Research and Innovation and Carina Törnblom, Head of Unit Consumer Strategy, Representation and International Relations, Directorate-General for Health and Consumers provided inputs from the research and consumer point of view. Click here to see the presentations and the participants list Wall of commitment The conference ended with a commitment wall of actions that participating individuals, practitioners and organisations from policy to business, civil society and citizen movements pledge to take forward to activate the EU Sustainable Lifestyles Roadmap and Action Plan 2050.

The outputs presented at the conference will be ready for download shortly.

Learn more about the SPREAD project here:

Project description

Project website

Award winning sustainable wrapping paper

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:04:00 +0100

Have you already wrapped up all your presents for Christmas? Hopefully not, because there is a beautiful sustainable alternative to glittery cellophane paper: The CSCP designers won the "Occupy Christmas" award for wrapping paper with a design, that shows tips to save carbon dioxide in snowy eco colors on recycled paper - a wonderful example, that design and sustainability can fit perfectly together. The contest was held by the ecological printing company Oktoberdruck in Berlin. The Design of the CSCP team was among the 6 winners out of 78 participants and therefore was awarded 50 printed copies of the self-designed wrapping paper at the awards ceremony on monday, December 10, 2012. The wrapping paper will not be printed for sale, but you are very welcome to have a look at the useful tips wrapped in beautiful snow crystals here.

Out now: "Scaling up" report series

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:53:00 +0100

A key challenge for any development programme is to scale up successful approaches and methodologies to speed up the path to sustainable development. Therefore the SWITCH-Asia Network Facility, lead by the CSCP, distills the lessons learned from the SWITCH-Asia project. In order to take it one step further, our team wanted to find out, what it takes to stick to the promising practices developed in the project. A series of scaling up reports containing the results is out now.

The projects funded under the SWITCH-Asia programme should employ ‘scaling-up mechanisms’ to multiply, enlarge and spread existing good practices. The projects might scale up ‘horizontally’ and/or ‘vertically’. Horizontal scaling up (or ‘scaling-out’) refers to the gradual roll-out of activities within a sector or to a wider geographic area. Vertical scaling-up focuses more on organisations and frameworks at local, regional and/or national levels, involving both actors in the direct supply chain and ‘enablers’ such as government and financial institutions.

Projects apply their own approach to scaling up, bringing lasting impact to a wider geographic area than originally addressed, to a critical portion of a sector, and to a large number of consumer groups.

In 2010, the CSCP launched a multi-year analysis of how these scaling up mechanisms were contributing to the effective mainstreaming of sustainable consumption and production in society.

Five major areas emerged:

	Engaging with service providers
	Building partnerships with supply chain actors
	Linking with policy-makers
	Engaging with consumers towards ethical purchase and use
	Enabling access to finance

With Engaging Service Providers for Sustainable Consumption and Production the Network Facility hosted by the CSCP completed the series and we are proud to present them on the SWITCH-Asia Network Facility's website.

More about the SWITCH Asia Network Facility:
Project description
Project website

CSCP teams up with Global Energy Basel 2013

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:53:00 +0100

Sustainable infrastructure projects often come along with innovative ideas. Still neglected is the financing part. Where does the money come from to put these sustainable ideas in execution? The Global Energy Basel (GEB) Conference 2013 wants to bring ideas, needs, and finance together. On a Capacity Building Day prior to the conference, senior decision-makers from the public and private sectors along with entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to sharpen their understanding of sustainability, risk migration of projects and how both is interlinked. „How do sustainable consumption and lifestyles trigger investment?“ This will be another topic of the Capacity Building Day, answered by a CSCP speaker. Furthermore, participants will be introduced to the GEB Grading Tool, the concept of sustainable infrastructure and self assessment of a project. See the flyer on the Capacity Building Day here. The GEB summit will feature a mix of participants from Asia, Latin America, North America, Africa and Europe and will be a great opportunity for networking and meaningfully exploring business ideas from across the world. At the following conference Investment Forums, sustainable energy projects will be presented to investors. Stakeholders and Partners of the CSCP, who register till 22nd December, 2012 can attend the Global Energy Basel 2013 summit at a 50% discount. Sign in here Global Energy Basel 2013 Conference 22 & 23 January 2013 in the Congress Centre Basel Basel, Switzerland Capacity Building Day 21st January 2013 in the Congress Centre Basel Basel, Switzerland

Link green IT and sustainable business

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:43:00 +0200

IT-supported improvement of sustainable business processes in companies is constantly gaining importance. Intelligent IT systems, which can help to save energy, face a rapidly increasing demand although there is an undoubted backlog in some parts of the industrial practice regarding green IT. The CSCP held a workshop on Vision 2050 with IT companies to identify how IT could also support sustainable lifestyles.

Green IT and Business
We are glad to participate in the opening event of BeFIT, a dependent of Fraunhofer-Institut for applied information technics (FIT) linking green IT and business. Established on the professorship for business information systems and new media of the University Siegen, BeFIT will offer scientific support on IT-based sustainability improvements to regional industries.

CSCP contributes visions
The opening event will include inspiring lectures and interesting discussions. Among IT and sustainability experts Michael Kuhndt, Head of the CSCP, will provide a presentation. In accordance with the event’s core topic “Sustainability and Enterprises” he will present visions on how sustainable business models, products and services could support a one-planet-lifestyle.

The event will take place on
november 16th 2012, from 2-7pm

in Bernhard-Weiss-Saal
at IHK Siegen
Koblenzer Straße 121
57072 Siegen

Or find out more about the CSCP’s interactive activities on spreading sustainability in the ICT-Industries:
SMART Start-up - Enabling ICT-Entrepreneurs
WORKSTUDIOS – Results of the Workshop about ICT & Sustainable Lifestyles

Sustainable Lifestyles Conference – Register online now!

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:16:00 +0200

A roadmap and action plan for sustainable lifestyles from today until 2050 is the most recent outcome of the SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 project, coordinated by the CSCP. It will be presented at a highly interactive conference at the 26 & 27 november, bringing together policy makers, business, civil society, research, design and many others in Brussels. The aim: Foster, enable and accelerate more sustainable living practices across Europe. Sustainable Lifestyle on a small foot In the Roadmap the SPREAD project has quantified Sustainable Lifestyles in 2050 as a material footprint of 8 000 kg. It has developed scenarios of four possible futures and pathways to reach the societies that support 8 000 kg sustainable lifestyles. It has identified current trends and promising practice of more sustainable ways of living already being revealed today! Bring your own ideas and be inspired
Participants will have the chance to learn more about the outcomes of the project, discuss their own ideas and actions to activate the EU Sustainable Lifestyles Roadmap starting in 2013 and get inspired by different promising practices for sustainable lifestyles from all across Europe.
Key Conference Features for Participants:

Interact with 8 000 kg sustainable lifestyles, and measure your own lifestyle material footprint
Experience Scenarios for Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 come to life: From Local Loops to Global Champions
Meet business entrepreneurs, organisers of social movements and eco-villages, designers and product innovators who are demonstrating that more sustainable ways of living are possible, and already in practice today
Participate in action planning and match-making round-tables which seek to activate the EU Sustainable Lifestyles Roadmap starting in 2013

Catalyzing Action: EU Sustainable Lifestyles Roadmap & Action Plan to 2050 november, 26th - 27th 2012 in Brussels For more details on the agenda, registration and practical information, please visit the SPREAD Website.

For any questions, please contact

Rosa Groezinger • Project Manager

+49 (202) 459 58 13 • rosa.groezinger@scp-centre.org

CSCP on Guardian’s Sustainable Business online debate

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:28:00 +0200

Tuesday, 12 September the CSCP spoke about its work on sustainable lifestyles and behaviour change on the Guardian’s Sustainable Business online debate series. The live discussion explored what is needed to make sustainable behaviours fun, easy and normal and how this can be achieved at the scale and pace required. The outstanding board looked together with all online participants at how business can help nudge consumers in the right direction, focusing on the role that marketing and communications strategies can play. What products would help make sustainable actions occur naturally, rather than with conscious effort from the consumer, and where do government policy and new frameworks enter the equation? Find the results summed up here.
The Panel

Cheryl Hicks, Team Leader sustainable lifestyles, UNEP/ Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Production and Consumption (CSCP)
Freya Williams, director of strategy at OgilvyEarth
David Jones, global CEO at Havas
Professor Fergus Lowe, professor in psychology at Bangor University and CEO of Food Dudes Health
Mark Earls, author of Herd
Stefano Giolito, director, sustainability at Unilever
Dr Mark Cobain, global new business director at Unilever

What happened in Rio…

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:49:00 +0200

The famous saying “what happens in…, stays in…” does not apply for what happened in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, as the outcomes and agreements of discussions there are to be heard in every corner of the world and transformed into tangible actions. There was indeed a lot going on, from a myriad of side events to the official talks to formulate the document 'The Future We Want'. In this document Sustainable Consumption and Production (paragraph 224–226) is rectified as a priority for which a 10-year framework of programs is needed. Role of the CSCP The CSCP was the proud host, co-host and participant of several of these events, among which, the scenarios of SPREAD, the Global Network on Sustainable Lifestyles and the Global Network on Innovation for Entrepreneurship, were launched. As a summary download the CSCP Rio+20 special poster here.
For more information about the CSCP activities in Rio please visit the pre-Rio news release or contact

Ginnie Guillen • Rio+20 Activities’ Coordinator
rio20@scp-centre.org