Transformative actions #47 – Empowering change: Unleashing policy innovation towards global sustainable consumption
In a world of cascading threats to resource security, decoupling economic growth from consumption-resource depletion challenges through strategic policy innovation-led consumer empowerment could be a transformative solution to reduce waste, combat pollution and recalibrate global sustainable consumption efforts.
Unsustainable consumption not only wastes finite natural resources but is also a causal nexus of wasted labour, effort, investment and a drain on critical resources like water, land, and energy. It threatens food security, affordability, contributes to social inequality and increases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions exacerbating climate change. It also has a direct impact on waste production and biodiversity degradation and loss.
Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goal 12
External source(s)
Actors involved:
Value Chain Stage(s):
Policy / Regulation
Production / Manufacturing / Construction
Product/ Service Design and Planning
Research and Development / Innovation
Use / Consumption
