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UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating
Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP)
UNEP and the Wuppertal Institute
launched the UNEP/Wuppertal
Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption
and Production (CSCP) in November 2005.
The Centre provides scientific support
to activities undertaken by UNEP and other organisations
in the field of SCP. This support includes the development,
testing, implementation and monitoring of concrete projects,
especially in developing countries, which enables these
countries to leapfrog to sustainable consumption and production
patterns using life cycle thinking and resource efficiency
as guiding principles.
An overview of current activities can
be found on scp-centre.org.
Download programme
brochure (PDF - 822 KB)
UNEP representative in the Management
and Policy Committee (MPC) of the Centre is Mr. Bas de Leeuw,
Head, Integrated Resource Management.
The CSCP is located in Wuppertal, Germany.
It is supported by the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry
for Environment, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, the
German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation
and Nuclear Safety, and the Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development.
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"We should not be afraid
to wish that everyone in the world became a consumer.
The poor need more than food and shelter. They ultimately
need to be able to make choices for their material
and immaterial well being, just like we all can do
so. This is of course an enormous task. We call it
the challenge of sustainable consumption and production.
And nothing less is the focus of the new Wuppertal
Centre"
Dr. Klaus Töpfer, former
Executive Director of UNEP, 25 November 2005.
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