Among its first activities, the CSCP was involved in writing the Discussion Paper serving as the background document to the 2nd International Expert Meeting on The 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production. This major event of the Marrakech process took place in San José, Costa Rica, from the 5th to the 8th of September 2005.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Wuppertal Institute (WI) have established the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP). This new organisation is supported by the Business and Employment Support Agency, Wuppertal, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry for Environment,  [...]