1. Still Waiting for Delivery Looking Backward and Forward on the 10-Year Challenge to Change Production and Consumption 8 December 2009 Klima Center, Copenhagen Jeffrey Barber

2. 2002: Waiting for Delivery The World in 2012: Towards a 10 Year Plan to Achieve Sustainable Production and Consumption

3. Piper Alpha Bhopal Love Canal 3 Mile Island Global 2000 Rpt Chernobyl Hanford Danube Massey Our Stolen Future Seveso Amoco Cadiz Baia Mare Bangladesh arsenic Exxon Valdez Ozone hole Progress towards sustainability (?)

4. The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production… - Agenda 21, Chapter 4 (1992)

5. Agenda 21, Ch. 4 Develop a domestic policy framework that will encourage a shift to more sustainable patterns of production and consumption.

6. 1992: “Develop a domestic policy framework that will encourage a shift to more sustainable patterns of production and consumption.” Ten years later 2002: 10 Year Review of Progress Since Rio Problem of the “implementation gap”

7. Worsening social and environmental trends…

10. …due to increasing production and consumption

11. WSSD mandate Johannesburg Plan of Implementation: “…development of a 10-year framework of programmes in support of national and regional initiatives to accelerate the shift towards sustainable consumption and production."

12. Lifestyles/voluntary simplicity Consumer information Right-to-Know Education for sustainability Consumer action/boycotts Ethical shopping Consumption Production Industrial ecology Life Cycle Analysis Workplace standards Clean production Sustainable manufacturing Extended Producer Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility Eco Product design Initiatives and communities of practice

13. Fair Trade Advertising reform Eco-labeling Certification Packaging Full cost pricing Transportation Distribution Investment Green procurement Subsidy reform Eco-taxes/shifting Socially Responsible Investment Financial institutional reform Initiatives and communities of practice

14. Values/Needs/Norms Redefining progress & growth Happiness research Defining and measuring sustainability National policy frameworks/plans Initiatives and communities of practice

15. Lifestyle/ Voluntary simplicity Right to know/ access to information Education for sustainability Ethical shopping Consumer action/ boycott campaigns Consumption-focused initiatives/ communities of practice Supportive UN programs National, regional & local initiatives

16. FinanceData- base DialogIndicatorsResearch Lifestyle/ Voluntary simplicity Right to know/ access to information Education for sustainability Ethical shopping Consumer action/ boycott campaigns Consumption-focused initiatives/ communities of practice Supportive programs (proposed) National, regional & local initiatives

17. FinanceData- base DialogIndicatorsResearch Sustainable manufacturing Lifecycle assessment Clean production Extended Producer Responsibility Eco-product design Industrial ecology CSR Production-focused initiatives/ communities of practice Supportive programs (proposed) National, regional & local initiatives

18. FinanceData- base DialogIndicatorsResearch Fair Trade Advertising reform Eco-labeling Certification Packaging Rural-urban linkages Transport alternatives Distribution-focused initiatives/ communities of practice Supportive programs (proposed) National, regional & local initiatives

19. FinanceData- base DialogIndicatorsResearch SRI Procurement guidelines Subsidy reform Overseas Development Aid Foreign Direct Investment Eco-taxes/shifting Financial institutional reform Investment-focused initiatives/ communities of practice Supportive programs (proposed) National, regional & local initiatives

20. CSD18 – ‘Review of Progress on the 10 Year Framework of Programs for Sustainable Consumption and Production May 2010 Ten years later What international programs would be most supportive of the world’s initiatives? Are they on the table? Is this another “implementation gap” ? CSD 18

21. The world in 2012…Still waiting for delivery?

22. It is not the UN or its programs that will reverse these worsening trends… …but the global movement of people and their initiatives promoting sustainable production and consumption and a higher quality of life for everyone.