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UN Sustainable Development Goals - 12. Repsonsible production and consumption

 

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Sustainable consumption and production is about promoting resource and energy efficiency, sustainable infrastructure, and providing access to basic services, green and decent jobs and a better quality of life for all. Its implementation helps to achieve overall development plans, reduce future economic, environmental and social costs, strengthen economic competitiveness and reduce poverty.

 

Sustainable consumption and production  aims at “doing more and better with less,” increasing net welfare gains from economic activities by reducing resource use, degradation and pollution along the whole lifecycle, while increasing quality of life. It involves different stakeholders, including business, consumers, policy makers, researchers, scientists, retailers, media, and development cooperation agencies, among others.


It also requires a systemic approach and cooperation among actors operating in the supply chain, from producer to final consumer. It involves engaging consumers through awareness-raising and education on sustainable consumption and lifestyles, providing consumers with adequate information through standards and labels and engaging in sustainable public procurement, among others.

 

Read more about this goal on the website of the United Nations.


How do the Dutch universities work on this development goal?

Delft University of Technology, Leiden University and Erasmus University Rotterdam

Erasmus University Rotterdam  
Maastricht University

Open Universiteit

Radboud University I

Radboud University II

Radboud University III

Tilburg University

TU Delft I

TU Deflt II

TU Delft III

Twente University

University of Amsterdam

University of Groningen

Wageningen University & Research