English - Regional Activity Centre for Cleaner Production

More documents

Recommendations

Info

14 | III. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 2009 ANNUAL REPORT CP/RAC 2009potential for exceptional action in all areas: to carryout actions with a more global impact with aview to improve our behaviour towards our physicaland social surroundings.In this context, over the last few years societieshave increased their perception of the inseparablerelationship that exists between production andconsumption. This is due, to a large extent, to theever more important role that unsustainable consumptionhas had as a motor for impacts at environmental,economic and social levels: impacts thatare not caused directly by production per se, but byregularly increasing consumption, with which anincreasing amount of energy and resources isdirectly associated.Consequently, more and more public policies arebeing carried out which integrate both sides of thesame coin, consumption and production, whichcan now no longer possibly be seen as manageableseparately. An indication of this increasingperception is the number of national strategiesthat many countries have recently developed onSustainable Consumption and Production. All thesehave been driven by the United Nations, sincethe Johannesburg Summit in 2002, through theMarrakech Process. The Marrakech Process, inwhich the RAC/CP collaborates, promotes a changein production and consumption patterns at worldlevel, in order to achieve a change in the presenttendencies and make them compatible with theplanet and human activity.This tendency arrives at the same time as the greatestchallenge that humanity has ever faced, climatechange, and it is widely known that this challengerequires additional efforts, and effective forcefuland innovative action at all levels, immediate incharacter. This is why climate change was definedas a priority working area on government agendas,the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) and the Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP),amongst many others. 2008 and 2009 are keyyears in world politics, given that the route to followwas being prepared in 2009, the most ambitiousand global policy ever adopted with respectto environmental questions and lifestyle in general,directly affecting our models of production andconsumption.
ANNUAL REPORT CP/RAC 2009 III. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 2009 | 15Activities1.1. Review of the tendencies of theMediterranean countries in the areaof Sustainable Consumption andProduction (SCP), in the industrial sector1.2. Evaluation of consumer tendenciesin the MediterraneanIn 2008, an updated Report on the Situation ofSustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) inthe Mediterranean Region was prepared.During the first half of 2009, the report wasfinalised and revised. It includes profiles for 18countries in the Mediterranean and a regionalreport. The document constitutes an essentialsource of information for the analysis of generaltendencies in the Mediterranean Region in thiscontext. The information contained in the reportdistinguishes between three different groups in theMediterranean; The Balkans, The EU States andthe countries of the South and Middle East.The most notable conclusions of the report referto the main environmental impacts caused byindustrial development, and the progress madeby Mediterranean countries in the promotion andadaptation of cleaner production processes and efficiencyin industry, together with other mechanismssuch as ecological labelling, green public purchasingand corporate social responsibility in companies,which introduce sustainable criteria into systemsof production and consumption.The report will be published with the title Stepstowards Sustainable Consumption and Productionin the Mediterranean on the web page of theRAC/CP, in English, Spanish and French, and will bedistributed to all the Mediterranean institutionsinterested in this question.Global Survey into Sustainable LifestylesThe RAC/CP collaborated with the UNEP the diffusionof Global Survey into Sustainable Lifestyles.The objective of the survey was to obtain real informationon how people use energy, how they reactto advertisements and what they think of sustainablelifestyles. The survey has a global objective,and divides the objectives according to countries,ages, and place of residence. The RAC/CP hastranslated the report into Arabic with the aim ofhelping Egyptian consumers participate in the survey.The Centre also published the survey in Spainand Malta through online instruments such as electronicmail or Facebook.Study Sustainable Fishing in theMediterraneanThe RAC/CP has published the study SustainableFishing in the Mediterranean which analyses the
Page 3 and 4: Annual report CP/RAC 2009UNEPMAPReg
Page 6 and 7: 4 | INDEX ANNUAL REPORT CP/RAC 2009
Page 9: II. Main achievements
Page 13: III. Report on activities 20091. Su
Page 18 and 19: 16 | III. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 2009
Page 45: IV. Annexes
Page 48 and 49: 46 | IV. ANNEXES ANNUAL REPORT CP/R
Page 51: Regional Activity Centre for Cleane

English - Regional Activity Centre for Cleaner Production

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?