The CSCP together with project partners UNEP and the China State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) delivered a capacity building training program for government officials and policy experts in Beijing China. The training program is based around a ‘toolbox’ of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) policies and measures developed by the CSCP.

The International Symposium "Towards Sustainable Lifestyle and Business Model - Policy Trends of Sustainable Consumption and Production" organised by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Kansai Research Centre (KRC) was held on 17 January, 2007 in Kobe, Japan. The aim of this symposium was to raise awareness on the above mentioned issues through discussing on the most recent policies and its developments from a global view point. The symposium was attended by more than 150 pe [...]

The CSCP presented the “Human Development through the Market“ (HDtM) approach at UNEP’s 9th International Seminar on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP9), held on 12-13 December 2006 in Arusha, Tanzania. HDtM covers market-based environmentally and socially responsible activities that empower the poor to meet their basic needs and introduces innovative business model to entrepreneurs, National Cleaner Production Centres (NCPCs) and other relevant intermediaries such as financial institu [...]

The international conference "Creating Solutions for Sustainable Consumption and Production – An Expert Conference on the Marrakech Process" on 22 and 23 November, in Wuppertal, Germany has been widely received as a success.

The materials for the conference are now online available on the conference download page.

The conference was organised by the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and P [...]

The Ceremony of the international official opening will take place on November 22 in the old shoelace factory in Wuppertal Ostersbaum. The opening is organised in conjunction with the Expert Conference on the Marrakesh Process “Creating Solutions for Sustainable Consumption and Production” which will be held in Wuppertal on November 22 and 23.