1. Connecting Communities of Practice on Sustainable Production & Consumption Jeffrey Barber Copenhagen Climate Exchange 5 December 2009

2. How to transform the fossil-fuel dependent industrial-consumer economy?

3. Living Planet Report, WWF (2004) Billion global ha Global footprint keeps growing

4. Policy interdependencies

5. Climate change Biodiversity loss Air & water pollution Health threats Urban sprawl Waste-pollution-depletion Sustainability strategies & initiatives Waste-pollution-depletion Production/consumption cycle

6. What drives the cycle? Distribution – product pricing, marketing/ advertising, packaging, transport, sales/trade Investment of resources (money, natural, labor, knowledge) Values – Root priorities which ultimately shape all other decisions

7. Production/consumption cycle Production Consumption Distribution Investment Values

8. Lifecycle assessment

9. Emisssions Waste Inequities Consumption Distribution Production Investment Values

10. Policy perspectives

11. Production/consumption sectors generating GHG emissions

12. Policies and practices

13. …and change the production/consumption cycle in each sector Transport Automobiles

14. Emission sources from automobile production & consumption Automobiles

15. Changing the system of production and consumption

16. Policies and practices

17. Communities of Practice A group that tends to evolve around an issue with its own unique culture. It has its own language (jargon and acronyms), conferences, friendships and journals. They work at different scales from the local level to the national to the international.

18. Production-based practices: Sustainable manufacturing Competitiveness & profitability Green product portfolio Low-carbon products Carbon offsetting Lifecycle approach Emissions reduction Sustainable supply chain management Remanufacturing

19. Policies and practices

20. Consumption-based practices and communities Key Terms: Simplicity Simple living Downshifting Frugality Sufficiency Quality of life

21. Communities of practice Concepts and principles Literature (key books, papers) Skills, training, education Terminology or jargon Gatherings (conferences, study groups) Goals or aims Saints and heroes Personal friendships Collective history

22. There is the footprint we leave And there are the steps we take forward.