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Getting the Goods: 2005
International news
Upcoming
event: Marrakech + 2 in Costa Rica
The 2nd International Expert Meeting on Sustainable Consumption
and Production (the second global meeting of the Marrakech process)
will be held in Costa Rica in September 2005
SPAC at CSD IPM
Mar. 2005: A report on sustainable production and consumption (SPAC)
issues, as was discussed in the CSD Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting
is available at http://www.icspac.net/caucus/SPAC-IPM2005.aspx
SCP-8 concludes in Monterrey
Nov. 2004: The 8th
High Level Seminar on Sustainable Consumption and Production , held
in Monterrey, Mexico, on November 15-16 2004 addressed two basic themes:
"Environment and Basic Needs" and "Global Challenges
and Business" and aimed to create a new vision for the work of
the international community to promote more sustainable lifestyles.
Details are available at http://www.uneptie.org/pc/SCP8/first.htm
3rd International Workshop on SC indicators
Oct. 2004: Organized by the Society for Non Traditional Technology
(SNTT) and the Research Center for Life Cycle Assessment as a part of
its three year project "Research on the Development and Utilization
of Indicators for Sustainable Consumption, the workshop was held on
Oct 22- 23 at Tokyo.
Workshop papers are available at http://unit.aist.go.jp/lca-center/english/lca-activity/symposium/04_sympo/picture041021.html
Production-Consumption systems: Research
Frontiers
Oct. 2004: The Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER), Chiang
Mai University organized an international workshop titled "Sustainable
Production-Consumption Systems: Research Frontiers" in order to
arrive at an improved framework and agenda for research on the sustainability
of production-consumption systems that increasingly stretch across disparate
parts of the globe.
Dr. Louis Lebel writes in detail about the workshop in page --
Consumption and technology
May 2004: "From Greed to Need: Reshaping Consumption and Technology
for a Sustainable World" was the title of the 2004 conference organized
by the Scientists for Global Responsibility on 15th May 2004. A brief
report is available at http://www.sgr.org.uk/Conferences/2004ConfAGMSummary.html
Cyber Seminar: Consumption, Population
& Environment
May 2004: The Population-Environment Research Network organized
a cyber seminar titled "Population, Consumption and Environment
Dynamics: Theory and Method". Archives are available at http://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/seminars.jsp
SPAC & Advertising: The Corporate
Response
May 2004: The issue of how corporate citizens can use advertising
and marketing to roll out appropriate responses when confronted with
sustainable consumption was discussed at the Global Compact Policy Dialogue
titled "Sustainable Consumption: Marketing and Communications"
in Paris, on April 4 - 5 2004. A report is available at http://www.uneptie.org/pc/sustain/events/gc_meetingreport.pdf
Web tools for the Marrakech Process
Apr. 2004: UNEP and DESA have launched two internet based tools in support
of the Marrakech process. The first is a webpage dedicated to the Marrakech
process available at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/sdissues/consumption/
Marrakech/conprod10Y.htm . The second is a Sustainable
Consumption and Production database (available at http://webapps01.un.org/dsd/scp/public/Welcome.do
) that lists SPAC initiatives throughout the world.
-VR