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A) Action Town publications free to download – Guides for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)
| Guide on… | Download | What does the guide offer? |
| Policy instruments |  |
This booklet has been written for people working and volunteering on sustainability issues in civil society organisations (CSOs). It focuses on policy instruments that can be used to influence and foster positive change towards sustainable consumption and production. |
| Assessement tools |
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There is a variety of tools and methods that have been developed to assess the sustainability performance of various human activities and to communicate and manage environmental and social issues at different organisations.This guide for CSOs gives a precise overview of these assessment tools. |
| Indicators |  |
This guide provides a quick, hands-on overview of selected environmental and social indicators for CSOs to measure sustainable consumption and production. Indicators are valuable tools for CSOs in order to achieve their targets as they create a sense of precision and attract interest making.In addition the guide provides examples of how, by means of indicators, CSOs can take effective action to encourage more sustainable consumption and production practices. |
| Survey Report |
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The aim of this survey is to identify the knowledge CSOs have in the field of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in three key focus areas: policy instruments, assessment tools and indicators. In parallel, Action Town partners carried out a review of state of the art research in these areas (see guides above).In addition the survey aims to get an overview of effective and less effective SCP strategies used by CSOs and to identify other gaps in capacity and knowledge CSOs might have in this field. |
| Roadmap |  |
CSOs have well developed skills in analyzing and assessing environmental problems, but often lack knowledge and capacity on how to effectively resolve them in terms of understanding the complex functioning of the economic and social systems within which both the problem and the potential solutions exist.The Action Town roadmap provides CSOs academia knowledge for more effective strategies and tactics for their actions towards sustainable consumption and production (SCP). |
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| Project Flyer |  |
Short and concise information on the Action Town project.It will answer the questions: Why Action Town? What we offer? What results do we expect? Who are the Action Town project partners? How to learn more about Action Town and how to engage with us? |
| Conference: Dialogue & Action Platform for SCP |  |
The Dialogue & Action Platform for Sustainable Consumption and Production Conference was held in Wuppertal (Germany) from 16-18 March 2009. More than 90 representatives from civil society organisations (CSOs), research and policy institutions followed the invitation of Action Town and the CSO-Platform on SCP project, another CSO project co-funded under the 7th Research Framework Programme (see: www.scp-dialogue.net), who jointly organised the event. |
| Roadmap Workshop: Better & New NGO Strategies to Tackle the Sustainable Consumption and Production Challenge? |  |
Twenty key experts from academia and civil society discussed the central question of how to use the collective knowledge of leading thinkers from academia and civil society to develop and define an agenda for collaboration between academia and CSOs. This so-called roadmap aims to provide CSOs with better knowledge and capacity for more effective strategies to tackle the global environmental crisis. More information about the workshop that was held on 11 and 12 of March 2010 in Wuppertal, Germany can be found here: http://action-town.eu/media-house/atrw_intro |
| Workshop: Supporting Civil Society Organisations in the field of sustainable consumption and production |  |
The workshop aimed at fostering knowledge transfer between CSOs and researchers with a focus on policy instruments, assessment tools and indicators for SCP.Four pratical CSO projects were looked at, CSOs’ activities were supported and new insights to research were given. The workshop was held in Vienna, 1-2 February, 2010 and organized by CSCP, SEI and SERI. You can download the presentations here. Download the Workshop Report here. |
| Final conference: SMART CSO´s |  |
Under the motto “SMART CSOs” the final conference of the Action Town project attracted around 100 participants to hear about the results of the four exploratory actions conducted by Action Towns´National Focal Points and also to discuss ways forwad to foster more effective CSO strategies in the future. You can download the presentations of the National Focal Points here. |
| ANPED, Green Liberty, MAMA86 position paper |  |
Action Town project partners publish position paper for UN CSDFor the UN Commission on Sustainable Development session of May 2010, ANPED and the new Action Town project partners MAMA-86 and Green Liberty have prepared a position paper to call for sustainability for all. This contribution to the international SCP process is available here for download.. |
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Nora Brüggemann: Action Town Project Manager, CSCP |
Click here to view Nora´s presentation |
Action Town project manager Nora sums up the main features of this FP7 project. |
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Janis Brizga: Chair of Green Liberty and Northern Alliance for Sustainable Development
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Click here to view Janis´ presentation |
Janis explains how a participatory SCP policy assessment was organised by Green Liberty in Latvia. |
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Ferda Ulutas: Coordinator of Environmental Projects Group at Technological Development Foundation of Turkey (TTGV) |
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TTGV’s pilot project focussed on actions encouraging the development of SCP Policies in Turkey. Ferda highlights the results of these activities. |
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Charles Castro: Director of Management Systems at ECODES (Spain) |
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Indicators for Sustainability in Financial Products were developed by ECODES in Spain. Charles explains the process and and follow-up ideas. |
| Anna Golubovska-Onisimova: President of MAMA-86,Ukraine |
Click here to watch Anna´s presentation |
Introduction of an SCP policy in the Ukraine, which is used as basis for a transition towards a green economy |
5 Links on policy instruments regarding environment and sustainability
6 Links on indicators regarding environment and sustainability
7 Links on assessment tools for impact/environmental/sustainability assessment
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Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP), www.scp-centre.org
The Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED), www.anped.org
The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), www.sei.se
Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI), www.seri.at
World Wildlife Fund U.K. (WWF-UK), www.wwf.uk
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Resources for civil society from the UNEP (news, highlights, publications)
BetterAid – a campaign website
European Trade Union Confederation and the environment
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International Institution for Sustainable Development, Key publications and online resources on sustainable development
Australian Government, Ecologically sustainable development publications
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UN, Economic and Social Development, The Marrakech Process
Measure the weight of your ecological backpack at One did it
European Economic and Social Committee, European Consumer Day “Sustainable consumption” 2005
European Environmental Bureau, Publication “Blueprint for European sustainable consumption and production”
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5 Links on policy instruments regarding environment and sustainability
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Publication “The use of economic instruments in environmental policy: opportunities and challenges”
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Publication “The Political Economy of Environmentally Related Taxes”
European Commission, Environment Directorate-General, general
European Commission, Environment Directorate-General, Sustainable Development – European Sustainable Consumption and Production Policies
European Commission, European Sustainable Development Strategy
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6 Links on indicators regarding environment and sustainability
Sustainable measures – Indicators that measure progress toward a sustainable economy, society and environment
International Sustainability Indicators Network
Redefining Progress, About sustainability indicators
International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Arguments on sustainability indicators
United Nations, Publication “Indicators of sustainable development: guideliones and methodologies”
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7 Links on assessment tools for impact/environmental/sustainability assessment
European Commission, Impact assessment
International Association for Impact Assessment
Convention on Biological Diversity, About impact assessment
EU project, Advanced tools for sustainability assessment
United nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment
Environmental Sofware and Services, Reports on environmental evaluation
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European Environmental Agency, general
European Environment Agency, EEA activities on household consumption
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
EIONET – European Topic Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ETC/SCP)
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The Dialogue & Action Platform for Sustainable Consumption and Production Conference was held in Wuppertal (Germany) from 16-18 March 2009. More than 90 representatives from civil society organisations (CSOs), research and policy institutions followed the invitation of Action Town and the CSO-Platform on SCP project, another CSO project co-funded under the 7th Research Framework Programme (see: www.scp-dialogue.net), who jointly organised the event.
Aim of the conference was to offer to the different, mainly European actors a common platform for discussion and action towards more sustainability in consumption and production. The focus was lying on giving support to CSOs by highlighting different options for actions to drive a more sustainable consumer behaviour and to influence policy processes, as well as to strengthen their influence by cooperating with research institutions.
Here you can:
- view the inspiring video clip ‘Lost Generation’ (just below)
that Rajan Gandhi presented in his keynote
- browse through most of the slides presented at the conference (scroll down)
- hear the sound of SCP performed live at the conference
- download the conference report.
