Archives: Production Issues

Rationalizing inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the...

Developing and implementing tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products.

Supporting developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production.

Ensuring that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.

Promoting public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities.

Encouraging companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle.

Substantially reducing waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.

Achieving the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the...

Reducing per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.

Achieving the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.