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Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) initiatives : List of initiatives |
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| Title: | Advisory Committee of Local Authorities (UNACLA) (2000-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | The advisory committee has been established by Habitat to act as a think tank for innovative ideas and as an early warning system on the future of cities. The committee members will work with national governments and other partners in civil society in [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unhabitat.org/committee/cover.html | ||||||||
| Title: | Advisory Support, Information Services and Training (ASIST) Programme (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Labour Organization | ||||||||
| Description: | ASIST - Advisory Support, Information Services and Training Programme promotes strategies for poverty reduction that optimise employment opportunities and local resource utilisation in the provision of sustainable infrastructure and services. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/recon/eiip/asist/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Best Practices Database (1996-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Together Foundation -UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | This searchable database contains proven solutions to common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanising and globalising world. Over 2700 practices from 140 countries demonstrate practical ways in which public, private and civil society [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.bestpractices.org/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Committee on Housing and Land Management (1947-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Economic Commission for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | The Committee is an intergovernmental body of all ECE member States; it provides a forum for the compilation, dissemination and exchange of information and experience on housing, urban development, land administration, national and local objectives and [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unece.org/env/hs/welcome.html | ||||||||
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| Title: | Energy Charter Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects (1994-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | Energy Charter | ||||||||
| Description: | The Energy Charter Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects (PEEREA) was negotiated, opened for signature (1994) and entered into force at the same time (1998) as the Energy Charter Treaty. Building on the provisions of the Treaty, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.encharter.org/index.php?id=4 | ||||||||
| Title: | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | US Department of Energy | ||||||||
| Description: | A gateway to hundreds of Web sites and thousands of online documents on energy efficiency and renewable energy. | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.eere.energy.gov/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN) (1994-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | TerraChoice Environmental Marketing Inc. | ||||||||
| Description: | The Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN) is a non-profit association of third-party, environmental performance labelling organizations founded in 1994 to improve, promote, and develop the "ecolabelling" of products and services. The mission of the GEN [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.gen.gr.jp/ | ||||||||
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| Title: | Healthy Cities Programme (Europe) (-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | World Health Organization - Regional Office for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | The WHO Healthy Cities approach gives comprehensive policy and planning solutions to urban health problems. Healthy Cities engages local governments in health development, through a process of political commitment, institutional changes and capacity building [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.who.dk/healthy-cities | ||||||||
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| Title: | Organisations for the Promotion of Energy Technologies (OPET) Network (1980-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | European Commission | ||||||||
| Description: | OPET Network has series of activities, aimed at promoting public awareness of current energy research results. The activities are intended to further the deployment of innovative technologies and increase the pace of market uptake in respect of research [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.cordis.lu/opet/home.html | ||||||||
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| Title: | Shopping for a Better World (2005/9-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | United Nations Environment Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | As a key link between producers and consumers, the retail sector is a major driver of production and consumption patterns. Retailers have a great influence on producers, suppliers and consumers and therefore can help contribute to the promotion of sustainability [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | www.unep.fr/pc/retail | ||||||||
| Title: | Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (1977-ongoing) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | International Energy Agency | ||||||||
| Description: | The IEA’s Solar Heating and Cooling Programme involves collaboration in the research, development and demonstration of solar thermal technologies for heating and cooling and daylighting technologies to reduce excessive reliance on imported oil, increase [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.iea-shc.org/ | ||||||||
| Title: | Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP) (1995-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Human Settlements Programme | ||||||||
| Description: | It is a facility for building capacities in urban environmental planning and management. The programme is founded on broad-based cross-sectoral and stakeholder participatory approaches. It contributes to promoting urban environmental governance processes, [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.unhabitat.org/programmes/sustainablecities/default.asp | ||||||||
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| Title: | Transport, Environment and Health Pan-European Programme (THE PEP) (2002/7-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Economic Commission for Europe | ||||||||
| Description: | THE PEP provides a cross-sectoral framework for promoting policy integration and sustainable transport development, in particular in urban areas. Its capacity building, awareness raising and information sharing activities aim at bringing particular benefits [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://www.thepep.org | ||||||||
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| Title: | UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (1992-) | ||||||||
| Lead organization: | UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat | ||||||||
| Description: | The Convention sets an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to tackle climate change. It establishes an objective and principles and spells out commitments for different groups of countries according to their circumstances and needs. It also [...] | ||||||||
| Web site: | http://unfccc.int/ | ||||||||
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