This report analyzes the correlation between advertising to children, the commercialization of toys in Brazil and its effects on the consumption and disposal of plastic, as well as on children's health. Considering that 90% of toys worldwide are made of plastic and that toy advertising to children are predominant on TV and in Youtube, it exposes the challenges of children commercial exploitation by this sector and brings technical, political, environmental and pedagogical solutions to this issue.
A research carried out by the Federal University of São Carlos Green Chemistry, Sustainability and Education Research Group, commissioned by Alana Institute through the Child and Consumerism programs.

The SLE Programme has supported 25 projects (of which 17 were completed by 2019) that are fostering the shift to more sustainable ways of living, based on the unique contexts of local societies. This report elaborates on the essential points of these projects, including the challenges of sustainable lifestyles, opportunities utilised, actions taken, learning, and other achievements.

The Brief, which is part of a series of UN SG policy briefs, provides policymakers, Member States, Private sector and all stakeholders, an overview of the impacts of the pandemic on tourism, including the millions of livelihoods it sustains.

A report, published by the European Commission, written with support by ICLEI, collecting 71 good practice cases on how public buyers have implemented socially responsible public procurement (SRPP), in order to promote employment opportunities, decent work, social inclusion, accessibility, ethical trade, design for all and seeking to achieve wider compliance with social standards.

This infographic highlights how effective carbon labels can persuade consumers to make low-carbon choices and reduce their carbon footprint.

The Consumer Information programme has prepared six infographics which summarise some of the key findings of the report “Consumer Information Tools and Climate Change – Facilitating low-carbon choices in Tourism, Buildings and Food Systems”. Share these infographics to promote the findings of the report and help us spread the word!

This infographic highlights how social norms have the power to guide individual behaviour and individual behaviour can also influence social norms.

The Consumer Information programme has prepared six infographics which summarise some of the key findings of the report “Consumer Information Tools and Climate Change – Facilitating low-carbon choices in Tourism, Buildings and Food Systems”. Share these infographics to promote the findings of the report and help us spread the word!

The “Roadmap for national LCA database development — Guidance and recommendations from around the world” brings together the most recent efforts in supporting countries to develop
and implement roadmaps and action plans, as an approach to establishing national LCA databases. Such roadmaps are a practical tool to raise and align the support and multi-stakeholder efforts required to generate, structure, and disseminate LCA data while pursuing interoperability with other data sources.

Through Breaking the Plastic Wave, Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ provides a global analysis using first-of-its kind modelling, showing that we can cut annual flows of plastic into the ocean by about 80% in the next 20 years by applying existing solutions and technologies. No single solution can achieve this goal; rather, we break the plastic wave only by taking immediate, ambitious, and concerted actions.

This infographic highlights the importance of consumer information tools in the buildings sector.

The Consumer Information programme has prepared six infographics which summarise some of the key findings of the report “Consumer Information Tools and Climate Change – Facilitating low-carbon choices in Tourism, Buildings and Food Systems” related to different topics. Share these infographics to promote the findings of the report and help us spread the word!

The recommendations are addressed to tourism stakeholders with the aim of supporting them to continue fighting plastic pollution during the COVID-19 recovery. This document illustrates how reducing the plastic footprint, increasing the engagement of suppliers, working closer with waste service providers, and ensuring transparency on the actions taken, can significantly contribute to a responsible recovery of the tourism sector. The document builds on the key concepts underlying the common vision for a circular economy for plastic, the One Planet Vision for a Responsible Recovery of the Tourism Sector and the latest available guidance from the World Health Organizations (WHO), World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and leading business associations. These recommendations should be seen as complementary to national and local regulations.

This guidance aims to provide a methodological framework for identifying ‘hotspots’ of plastic pollution, finding the leakages and their impacts along the entire plastic value chain, and then providing recommendations for action once these hotspots are identified

Achieving low-carbon societies requires collaboration amongst international development partners, and there is currently an opportunity for UNDP and UNEP jointly to support developing countries in the enhancement of their NDCs.

Summary of the Sustainable Diner project in the Phillippines

Thailand as a global food production hub is driven by an unprecedented increase in forest land conversion to agriculture, especially for maize production, which is used as animal feed and is largely associated to the country’s environmental issues.

Implementation of IKI SCP Project in Indonesia aims to reduce GHG emissions by integrating principles of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in policies, business and civil society movements.

The document presents the approaches of several central governments in the region (i.e. China, Japan, Malaysia, Republic of Korea and Thailand) in order to show that setting up monitoring and evaluating systems for GPP and/or SPP is possible and beneficial.