1. Rio+20
Governance and the 10 Year
Framework of Programmes on
Sustainable Consumption and
Production:
Status, Challenges and prospects
Arab Hoballah
Chief of SCP Branch, UNEP

2. EU Green Week 2008

3. UNEP - 6 priorities & objectives
• To strengthen the ability • that countries utilize • that environmental
of countries to integrate the ecosystem approach governance at country,
climate change to enhance human well- regional and global
responses into national being levels is strengthened to
development processes address agreed
environmental priorities
Ecosystem Environmental
Climate Change
management governance
• that natural resources • to minimize the impact • to minimize
are of harmful substances environmental threats
produced, processed and hazardous waste on to human well-being
and consumed in a the environment and arising from the
more environmentally human beings environmental causes
sustainable way and consequences of
conflicts and disasters
Harmful
Resource Disasters and
substances and
Efficiency - SCP conflicts
Hazardous Wastes

4. The Challenge
Our current economic system is heading towards the point of
being self-destructive by overshooting the regenerative and
assimilative capacities of our natural ecosystem

5. Sustainable Consumption and
Production (SCP)
Promote increasing Res Efficiency & sustainable lifestyles
Improving process,
Underlying products and services
drivers for
consumption
 business
Modernizing
infrastructure and policy
Identifying framework
obstacles &
opportunities  governments
Influencing and
advancing
Creating awareness,
sustainable
consumption and dialogues and reflection
production  consumer groups
patterns

6. Resource Efficiency - SCP
1. Assess
4. Stimulate
demand 2. Take policy
action
3. Investment
opportunities
To accomplish:
 Increased  Enhanced
investment/Industry understanding/Capacity
Building
 Different consumption
decisions  Improved capacity

7. SCP Key Programmes and
activities
• Assessment/Science • Industry/Incentives contributing to a
– International Resource Green Economy
Panel – Resource Efficiency and Cleaner
Production (NCPCs)
– Life Cycle Management – Safer and Responsible Production
– Business and CESR
• Policy Frameworks/ Capacity • Stimulating Demand/Consumers
Building – Product Information tools and Eco-
labelling
– Marrakech Process (10 YFP) – Sustainable public procurement
– Mainstreaming SCP policies – SBCI (Sustainable Building and
in development policies Climate Initiative)
– Sustainable Tourism – Sustainable cities
Programme – Education and Lifestyles
– Sustainable Agri-food
supply chains
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8. Sustainable
Waste
resource
Management
management
Design for
Sustainable sustainability
lifestyles
D4S
Sustainable
Consumption Cleaner
Sustainable
marketing
and Production production &
Resource
Efficiency
Sustainable Sustainable
procurement transport
Eco-labelling
and
certification

9. The SCP global agenda
• Earth Summit - Agenda 21 (Rio de Janeiro, 1992)
– Call for action to promote patterns of consumption and production that reduce
environmental stress and meet the basic needs of humanity
• World Summit on Sustainable Development - JPOI (Johannesburg, 2002)
– SCP is an overarching objective of and essential requirement for sustainable
development
– Call for the development of a 10 Year Framework of Programme to support SCP
implementation at the regional and national level
• Marrakech Process on SCP initiatives/policies have steadily increased in most
regions (2003-2011)
– E.g. development of regional strategies, capacity-building and information sharing,
multi-stakeholder partnerships and project implementation SCP areas
• CSD18/19 (2010-2011) review a proposal for a 10YFP:
– however the CSD19 failed to adopt any decision leaving a gap in the Environmental
Decision & JPOI implementation:
• UN Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio+20, 2012: an opportunity to
take stock of progress in advancing SCP

10. Some key initiatives on SCP
• Joint UNEP/UNIDO Resource Efficient and Cleaner
Production Programme: 50 national cleaner production
centres and programmes worldwide
• Life-cycle assessment standards in the ISO 14000 series;
In 2002, UNEP joined forces with the Society of
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry to launch the Life
Cycle Initiative
• SWITCH Asia, funded by the European Commission:
support to SMEs in the Asia and the Pacific region
• OECD Environment Directorate project on the impacts of household consumption on
the environment (energy use, waste, transport, food and water).
• Regional and sub-regional SCP strategies: European Union SCP, African 10YFP, LAC
SCP strategy, Arab Region Strategy, Asia Green Growth Initiative, MERCOSUR SCP action
plan, etc.
• Green Growth initiative - UN ESCAP and Republic of Korea: five main tracks of green
tax and budget reform, sustainable infrastructure, sustainable consumption, green
business, and ecological efficiency indicators

11. The Marrakech Process (2003-
2011)
A global multi-stakeholder process to:
Respond to WSSD Johannesburg Plan of Implementation call to
develop a 10 Year Framework of Programmes to accelerate the
shift towards SCP, decoupling economic growth from
environmental degradation.
Main objectives:
1. Support the development and implementation o policies and
projects on SCP based on regional and national priorities, and
multi-stakeholder participation and partnerships
2. Provide inputs for the elaboration of the 10 Year Framework of
Programmes (10YFP), reviewed and negotiated by the CSD 18-
19 cycle in 2010 and 2011.

12. Progress achieved through the MP
• An extensive multi-stakeholder consultation process 22 regional
consultations around the world, 3 international meetings and 8 national
roundtables
• SCP programmes or strategies elaborated in most regions: based on SCP
needs and priorities: e.g. the Regional SCP Strategy for Latin America and the
Caribbean developed in 2003; African 10YFP, developed in 2005; and the Arab
regional strategy on SCP launched in September 2009
• Implementation of 33 demonstration projects and development of
more than 30 SCP tools and methodologies with MP Task Forces (sust.
products, sust public procurement, sust tourism, sust. education and lifestyles,
sust buildings & construction, cooperation with Africa)
• Facilitated access to networks and funding, as well as strengthened
cooperation between regional and/or national implementation mechanisms
• Substancial inputs to the development of the 10YFP considered by
CSD18/19

13. Marrakech Process: Regional outcomes
strategies and programmes
• Africa • Latin America
– African 10YFP on SCP – Regional Strategy on SCP
(AU, NEPAD, AMCEN, UNECA (implementation, LAC Forum)
) – Regional Government Council
– African Roundtable on SCP on SCP
– MERCOSUR – SCP Action Plan
– Task Force: Cooperation
with Africa • North America
• Asia Pacific – Regional Consultations and
development of activities on
– Regional Help Desk on SCP
SCP at regional level
– Linked to Green Growth
Initiative (Korea & • West Asia
UNESCAP) – Regional Strategy on SCP
– SWITCH ASIA project on SCP
• Europe
– EU SCP Action Plan

14. Marrakech Task Forces
Sustainable
Sustainable Sector-
Buildings &
Tourism focused
Construction
Sustainable Seven Sustainable
Products Marrakech Lifestyles
Task Forces
Sustainable Education for
Public Sustainable
Procurement Cooperation Consumption
with Africa
Policy tools and Social & behavioural
programmes issues
Regional-focused

15. Seven Dynamic Task Forces
Some outputs: policies, tools and implementation
• Policy recommendations • National projects
– Sustainable Building and Construction and – Training on Sustainable Public
Climate Change Procurement (14 countries before 2011)
– Sustainable Tourism – Workshops on Creative Communities for
sustainable lifestyles in China, India and
• Tool Kits and Guidelines Brazil
– Sustainable Public Procurement • Regional projects
– Sustainable Coastal Tourism Development – Establishing an Eco-labelling Mechanism
– Education for sustainable consumption for Africa
• Reports and Analysis – Implementing the African 10 YFP on SCP
(launched in 2006)
– Tourism and Climate Change – mitigation
and adaption – Regional workshop on lifestyle survey in
Korea
– Global Survey on Sustainable Lifestyles
(8000 questionnaire responses) – Implementation of Latin American
regional SCP strategy

16. Resource Efficient & Cleaner Production
Programme
• The International Programme of National Cleaner
Production Centres launched in 1994
– 46 National Cleaner Production Centres/ Programmes
established worldwide;
– Technical tools and training materials produced and thousands
of national and industrial experts trained;
– Regional roundtables and networks of NCPCs established and
promoted in Africa, Asia and Latin America .
• A Joint UNEP-UNIDO programme on
RECP developed building upon the lessons
and experiences from the NCPC programme

17. Safer Production
• Flexible Framework for Chemical Accident Prevention and
Preparedness
– Aims at providing guidance for governments wishing to develop,
review, strengthen or improve their chemical accident prevention
and preparedness programme
 National level
• APELL Programme
– Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies
at Local Level
 Community level
• Responsible Production
– Responsible Production Handbook for SMEs
Sectoral approach: chemicals industry
• Produced in collaboration with ICCA and ICMM
• Value Chain focus
• Aligned with the Responsible Care Programme

18. Mission: present the common voice of
building sector stakeholders on
buildings and climate change, drawing
on UNEP’s unique capacity to provide a
global platform for collective action.
Our members: International and
national companies; Federations;
Green building councils; Local
authorities; Research Institutions;
Associations and NGOs

19. Global Initiative for Resource Efficient Cities
UNEP’s
Approach
to
Resource
Efficient
Cities

20. United Nations-backed international
initiative dedicated to promoting Policy Poverty
frameworks
sustainable tourism practices around alleviation
the world Cultural &
Climate
natural
change
heritage
ONLINE PLATFORM :
www.globalsustainabletourism.org
Biodiversity Private sector
THEMATIC Finance &
investments
AREAS
80 MEMBERS
CORE STRATEGIES
NPO/NGO
18%  networking and cooperation
42% Government
 knowledge sharing
13%  project development -
Private
adapting, replicating, and scaling-up
27% Sector
Other successful projects

21. Diagram 1: Lifecycle Perspective to a 10YFP
Enabling policy framework – governments at all levels
• Laws & Regulations
• Education & Awareness Raising • Sustainable Public Procurement
• Investments • Fiscal Instruments
Planning and Strategies
Disposal
Product Design
Reduce
Techno-
Values and Re-use & Recycle (3Rs) *Natural Resource logical
Life Cycle Use and Extraction and
Lifestyles
Perspective social
Consumption/Use
innovation
Manufacturing
Distribution/
Marketing
Market Forces
Governments & Major Groups (such as Business & NGOs)
• Pricing / Marketing • Corporate Environmental •Consumer Behaviour • Sustainable Private
• Quality
& Social Responsibility & Information Procurement

22. CSD18 and CSD19 –May 2010 -2011
• Marrakech Process was acknowledge as a sound basis for the
development of 10YFP
• Full agreement was found on the whole of the text of the
10YFP perceived by many governments as unique in the
history of the CSD, with a framework and means for
implementation.
• CSD19 failed to adopt a decision due to divergences not
related to SCP or the 10YFP leaving an important gap in the
implementation of the JPOI.
• Since the closure of the CSD19, SCP and its 10YFP have gained
even more interest and visibility, as shown by the various
regional and national submissions and negotiations for Rio+20.
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23. Objectives of the 10YFP
• Provide a platform for international
cooperation on SCP to deliver more technical
and financial support at the
local, national, regional and global levels
• Promote creation of new eco opportunities &
the engagement of the private sector
• Provide coherence and coordination between
SCP initiatives and activities, fill the gaps
• Promote knowledge and experience sharing to
extend, replicate and scale up good practices
• Foster partnerships and networking for SCP
• Consolidate and channel technical and
financial support where needed

24. Proposed Structure for the 10YFP
• Secretariat: UNEP requested to serve, within its current
mandate, as the 10YFP Secretariat, cooperating and responding to
member states, and collaborating with relevant UN bodies
through an interagency coordination group.
• Small board and national SCP focal points
• Trust fund: UNEP is invited to establish a trust fund for SCP
programmes to mobilize voluntary contributions from multiple
sources; and to support the implementation of the 10YFP in
developing countries.
• Initial and non-exhaustive list of programmes that would
have built upon the experience gained through the Marrakech
Process, this includes: consumer information, sustainable lifestyles
and education, sustainable procurement, sustainable buildings and
construction, sustainable tourism including eco-tourism.

25. Why a formal endorsement of the 10YFP at Rio+20?
• A global framework to support and scale-up SCP activities at national and
regonal levels
– Regional SCP Strategies in LAC, Africa, Asia, Arab Region and Europe identifying key SCP
priorities for the regions
– Scale up successful initiatives and centers of expertise such as NCPCs, Roundtable on SCP
in Africa and Asia and the Pacific and others which are enhancing implementation of SCP
– Launch new programmes and initiatives: agri-food, resource efficient cities, product
sustainability, etc
– SCP capacity-building and implementation activities: e.g. national SCP programmes in
various areas such as eco-labeling, procurement, tourism, education, lifestyles, etc.
• Rio+20 : unique opportunity to endorse and launch an effective 10YFP
– A formal adoption of the 10YFP as negotiated and agreed upon at CSD19 would provide a
powerful tool to effectively support the mainstreaming of SCP objectives and policies at
international, regional and national levels.
• Promoting SCP to for transition to Sustainable Development
– SCP is about creating the operational conditions for clean, resource efficient, economically
competitive and responsible consumption and production patterns through a broad range
of policies, initiatives and tools developed in close cooperation with the key actors and
sections of society, building from the bottom up.