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Sustainable Lifestyles (led by Sweden)
 The
Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles focuses on exploring
opportunities for the development of
practices and choices, at the individual
or collective level, that enable individuals to meet their needs
and aspirations (having good quality of life) with a sense of
responsibility towards the present and future generations, taking
into account their environmental and social impacts.
The Task Force is building cooperation and commitments
for action in the framework of the Marrakech Process. As a voluntary
initiative, it brings together various stakeholders from goverments,
NGOs, businesses, schools and universities. Together they have
been sharing experiences, identifying what sustainable lifestyles
mean in different cultures, developing future scenarios and policy
recommendations to enable the adoption of sustainable lifestyles
through the global framework for action on sustainable consumption
and production.
The Task Force's activities
and projects aim at engaging, encouraging and enabling actions
to foster sustainable lifestyles and make them desirable, especially
through communication and marketing, education, social and cultural
initiatives, cooperation and dialogue.
- Download the Task Force's Newsletter
NEW! Global
Survey on Sustainable Lifestyles (GSSL)
How do young adults around the
world perceive, imagine and shape sustainable lifestyles? How
can we build on their experiences, creative ideas, values and
aspirations to design and implement policies to support and enable
sustainable lifestyles that are respectful to young people's reality
and to socio-cultural identities?
These are the main objectives of the Global
Survey on Sustainable Lifestyles! The GSSL is a joint initiative
of the Swedish Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles and UNEP,
and is part of the Marrakech Process. Its main objectives are:
1) to inspire young adults from all over the world and explore
their views and aspirations with regards to lifestyles and sustainability;
2) to inspire policy-makers and other stakeholders in the design
for solutions and policies that promote sustainable lifestyles.
 If
you are between 18 and 35 years old, please click
here to share your experience and vision!
Otherwise, we would appreciate if you could
help disseminate this information among your contacts and networks.
For more information and if you would like to
become a partner in this initiative please download
the survey's flyer and/or contact Ms. Fabienne Pierre (UNEP
DTIE) at fabienne.pierre@unep.fr
Find more about
the Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles
Task Force Projects
Some of the projects developed by the
Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles in partnership with its members
are:
Communication for sustainable lifestyles
The Task Force is developing material and
supporting capacity building on communication for sustainable
lifestyles:
- Training sessions in China and Brazil
to assist governments, local authorities as well as NGOs and
consumer associations with the development of communication
strategies and sustainability awareness campaigns.
Education projects and resources
- Sister classrooms, a pilot project
between USA, Mexico and Costa Rica aiming to develop didactic
materials based on a existing curricula, focused on life-cycle
and global citizenship.
 Website
expansion and regional workshops of the UNEP/UNESCO
YouthXchange
programme, which promotes sustainable consumption patterns
among young consumers all around the world. YouthXchange training
kit consists in a guidebook and a website (www.youthxchange.net).
Best practices, creativity and development
Supporting the implementation of concrete
projects implies collecting results and good examples from ongoing
initiatives on sustainable lifestyles. It also involves supporting
the implementation of projects and good examples at regional and
/or sub-regional and national levels. The results are:
 Sustainable
Everyday Explorations
(SEE): the main aim of this project is to give
visibility to new
and more sustainable lifestyles, thereby triggering social conversation
and stimulating pollination all over the world. SEE is meant
to coordinate a building scenarios exercise among design students
worldwide and to collect their ideas for developing sustainable
lifestyles in the near future, taking into account the richness
of their cultural identity and values. A selection of projects
will be displayed on the UNEP DTIE online Creative Gallery on
Sustainable Lifestyles.
- Creative Gallery on Sustainable Lifestyles:
this gallery - currently under development -will be an
online platform on DTIE's website to give people and organizations
the opportunity to share, view and learn about scenarios on
sustainable lifestyles (images and texts,videos) reflecting
civil society's creativity and the potential for local initiatives.
 Creative
Communities for Sustainable Lifestyles (CCSL):
the CCSL has been established
to build on the results of a European research called Emerging
User Demands for Sustainable Solutions (EMUDE), which identified
a large number of promising grass roots innovation. Based on
this basis, EMUDE also developed a set of conceptual tools to
deal with them, to orient policy makers and to define research
and design guidelines in order to promote their consolidation
and diffusion. These results were integrated in the Sustainable
Everyday Project.
The CCSL project deals with grass roots innovations in everyday
life and their implications in terms of sustainable lifestyles
promotion. It compares some European experiences with the ones
that can be observed in the emerging countries, more specifically
in their growing urban populations.
CCSL notably focuses on three aspects:
- The nature of the groups of people who generate these
innovations (the creative communities).
- Their role in promoting new and sustainable
lifestyles (the promising cases).
- The possibility of making these promising cases more
accessible, effective and replicable, thanks to some appropriate
initiatives (the enabling system).
Download the brochure: Creative
Communities for Sustainable Lifestyles (CCSL) (PDF - 273KB)
Creative Communities for Sustainable Lifestyles is currently
being developed in Africa. Click
here for more information.
- Business Case for
Sustainable Consumption: the Wuppertal
Centre on SCP (CSCP) in Germany is preparing guidelines
on 'Business of Low Carbon & Resource Efficient Lifestyles
- Making the Business Case for Sustainable Consumption' which
will be launched as a set
of booklets. The guideline will highlight business opportunities
and challenges behind the SCP agenda; how to drive business
value through SCP; strategies for specific sectors, public policies,
and SCP opportunities in developing countries. This upcoming
document will offer information and tools based on business
and NGOs interviews and expertise.
- A review of best practices in promoting
sustainable lifestyles around the world (under development)
Evidence on sustainable lifestyles
- What are the research findings about sustainable lifestyles
and consumption? The Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI)
is pulling together relevant evidence on sustainable lifestyles,
including why we behave the way we do, the environmental consequences
of our lifestyles and the tools and methods currently available
to tackle the issue. The objective of this project is to identify
key evidence and gaps as well as to recommend future action
towards sustainable lifestyles.
Task Force Agenda
Latest events
- Marrakech Task Force Meeting on Sustainable Lifestyles, 29
October 2008, Prague
Upcoming events
- Task Force Meeting, India, 3 February 2009
Outreach and Members' activities
Information
Activities
The members of the Task Force are carrying out initiatives on
Sustainable Lifestyles, highlighting positive experiences, and
developing new initiatives to be applied at the national and local
levels. The Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles brings together
actors from governments, NGOs, business, schools and universities.
Click here to read the activities
developed by some members!
Contact person:
Ms. Gunilla Blomquist (gunilla.blomquist@environment.ministry.se)
Ms. Fabienne Pierre (fabienne.pierre@unep.fr)
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