Sustainable Development Goal 12
GOAL 12: Sustainable production and consumption
Guarantee sustainable production and consumption patterns:
One of the greatest global challenges is integrating environmental sustainability with economic growth and well-being by decoupling environmental degradation from economic growth and doing more with less. Resource decoupling and impact decoupling are necessary to promote sustainable consumption and production patterns and to transition to a more environmentally and socially inclusive world economy.
Ensuring sustainable consumption and production practices necessarily implies respecting the biophysical limits of the planet and reducing current global consumption rates to adapt to the biophysical capacity to produce ecosystem services and benefits.
UNEA 4. Resolution 1 (UNEP / EA.4 / Res.1) specifies that the circular economy is one of the current sustainable economic models, in which products and materials are designed in such a way that they can be reused, remanufactured, recycled. or recovered and thus maintained in the economy for as long as possible, together with the resources from which they are made, and the generation of waste, especially hazardous waste, is avoided or minimized, and greenhouse gas emissions are prevented or reduced .
The UNEP Economics Division has a project on Global Opportunities for the Sustainable Development Goals (GO for the SDGs) which aims to strengthen the capacity of countries to achieve the SDG 12.
SDG 12 on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) and the implementation of SCP and the circular economy by UNEP are fully aligned. Currently, UNEP is developing an SDG 12 Hub that will provide visualization and coordination through SDG 12. This links to UNEP's OnePlanet Initiative for Sustainable Consumption and Production. The initiative OnePlanet and the SDGs are fully aligned in terms of the monitoring approach. Besides, the SCP Hot Spot Analysis Tool (SCP-HAT) Recently developed is an online application with data on the environmental and socioeconomic performance of 171 countries during the last 25 years. It enables countries to quickly identify and analyze hotspots at the country and sector level and provides key country information in the context of the most relevant policy issues.
Presented at HLPF on July 7th 2021, the SDG 12 Hub is built to assist member states in achieving SDG 12, and is the central place to access official government reports against SDG 12 indicators. The SDG 12 Hub consolidates and visualizes the results of national reports on the SDG 12 indicators and makes them publicly available, allowing Member States to review progress on SDG 12 by individual targets or by country.
The SDG 12 Center also provides governments, businesses, civil society and the public with direct and transparent access to data reported by Member States on the SDG 12 Targets, as well as links to knowledge platforms, databases and existing networks through which stakeholders can share progress. knowledge and solutions for sustainable consumption and production.
Access the Hub here: https://sdg12hub.org