Towards sustainable consumption patterns a progress report on member country initiatives
Addressing unsustainable patterns of consumption is a crucial challenge for OECD Member countries in tackling environmental problems. However, measures to influence consumer demand have, in the past, received less attention than measures to influence production patterns. This progress report provide...
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Paris, France :
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
[1998]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- Origins of report
- Scope of report
- 2. CONTEXT FOR CHANGING CONSUMPTION PATTERNS
- Trends in consumption patterns
- Trends in production
- Debates and national policies on sustainable consumption
- Role of other actors
- 3. ACTIONS BY OECD MEMBER COUNTRIES
- Types of initiatives to influence consumption patterns
- Choice of examples
- Regulation
- Economic instruments
- Social instruments
- Other government action
- Packages of measures
- Addressing small and medium enterprises
- 4. EVALUATING THE SUCCESS OF MEMBER COUNTRY INITIATIVES
- How successful overall are Member country initiatives in modifying consumption patterns?
- How successful are specific Member country initiatives?
- OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
- OECD work on Individual Travel Behaviour
- Australian experience
- Public information campaigns in the Netherlands
- Economic instruments
- Ecolabelling
- 5. NEXT STEPS
- Next steps for Member countries
- Next steps for the OECD
- APPENDIX A
- Paragraph 28 of the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21adopted by the UN General Assembly Special Session on Sustainable Development, New York, June 1997
- APPENDIX B
- OECD Work Programme on Sustainable Consumption and Production
