This paper contributes to the SDG target 12.7 by identifying barriers and enabling conditions for sustainable public procurement (SPP), based on a systematic literature review, incorporating emerging literature on SPP experiences from low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). A conceptual framework is developed, building a typology of barriers and conditionalities across four dimensions.

RECP Assessment in Ceramic Sector has a primary focus on Resource Efficiency Assessment of Ceramic manufacturing Industries of Gujarat ( India). The objective of the project is to create opportunities for improving resource efficiency and preventing the emissions to the air, water and land; with that, reducing the waste generation and creating better work environment. The target of the project to prepare sector specific Resource Efficiency Guideline.

The intention of this UNEP report is to apply an evidence-based value chain approach, mapping the textile value chain with its stakeholders, as well as environmental and socio-economic impacts along different value chain stages. Based on this analysis, the report identifies associated hotspots in all sustainability dimensions. Giving examples of the many initiatives that are already being undertaken, the report outlines gaps, barriers and opportunities to work towards a more sustainable and circular textile value chain, highlighting priority actions.

Top insights:

• Increasing consumption, manufacture and use of textile products affect the global climate, the quality of ecosystems and human health, through their high use of energy, chemicals, land, and water
• High social risks despite the much-needed employment and essential human services it provides
• High use of energy and/or natural resources: extensive use of chemicals in cotton cultivation & wet textile processing particularly impacts on human health & ecosystems
• Priority actions are 1) the need for stronger governance to drive the change; 2) the need for collaboration and financing to implement solutions; and 3) the need to change consumption habits

Circularity goes beyond incremental improvements, e.g. increasing resource efficiency, increasing recycling rates and decreasing hazardous chemical use, and requires a system-wide approach, transforming the way textiles are designed, produced, consumed, and disposed of. Achieving systemic changes will require coordinated actions by all stakeholders and across regions.

This kit has been assembled to support parents and families interested in learning more and living more sustainably at home.

This pack has been carefully designed to provide maximum accessibility and relatability no matter your location in the world, including resources that can be reused and adapted to continue to continue conversations around sustainability and nutrition.

It includes storybooks, games, conversation starters, guides, activities, worksheets and more.

CHSB is the hotel industry’s largest annual benchmarking of energy, water, and carbon, open to hotels and hotel companies of all sizes and published in a freely available index every year. CHSB offers participants a peer-based reference for analyzing their hotels, maintaining a confidential data set published through an academic research center that does not share individual hotel data with third parties or used commercially.

CHSB is the hotel industry’s largest annual benchmarking of energy, water, and carbon, open to hotels and hotel companies of all sizes and published in a freely available index every year. CHSB offers participants a peer-based reference for analyzing their hotels, maintaining a confidential data set published through an academic research center that does not share individual hotel data with third parties or used commercially.

El presente estudio de la FAO ofrece un análisis general del caso brasileño y el proceso de aprendizaje con respecto a los programas de compras institucionales de alimentos, a saber, el Programa de Adquisición de Alimentos (Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos [PAA]) y el Programa Nacional de Alimentación Escolar (Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar [PNAE]).

This study is part of FAO work on sustainable public food procurement. It provides an overview analysis of the Brazilian case and learning process with regard to institutional food procurement programmes, by examining both Brazilian IPPs from a comparative perspective: Food Procurement Programme [PAA] and the National School Feeding Programme [PNAE]. The analysis also views the IPPs from a legal perspective.

This paper is part of FAO and WFP joint "Purchase from Africans for Africa - PAA Africa" project. It aims to assess the impact of existing policy, institutional and regulatory frameworks on the implementation of decentralised public food procurement programmes in Mozambique. It also looks at how the key challenges and barriers. It also looks at how the key challenges and barriers to the access of smallholder farmers to these programmes relates to these frameworks.

This study is part of the FAO project on "Policy Support for Public Food Procurement for Government-led Home Grown School Feeding initiatives". Building on the experiences of various countries and on an in-depth analysis of Ethiopia's public procurement rules and practices in the context of school feeding, the report provides recommendations on the development of a conducive public procurement regulatory framework to support the implementation of HGSF initiatives in the country.

Building on the experiences of various countries and on an in-depth analysis of Senegal's public procurement rules and practices in the context of school feeding, this report provides recommendations on the alignment of public procurement rules and practices and on the development of a conducive public procurement regulatory framework to support the implementation of Home Grown School Feeding initiatives in the country.

Understanding what information consumers respond to - and how they behave - is essential to get consumers recycling more often. This document draws on four major pieces of consumer insight research undertaken for OPRL Ltd (the UK's on-pack recycling label) by Tangible Branding, a consumer research company.

This extensive body of work, undertaken in the UK using a variety of online and face-to-face methods between April 2017 and October 2019, is distilled into 7 key insights.

As a small not-for-profit working to improve the circularity of consumer packaging and transform packaging resource efficiency in the UK, OPRL Ltd is committed to supporting delivery of the SDGs within its limited resources + capacity. This baseline report uses the UN Global Compact and B Corps' SDG Action Manager to baseline performance, map key SDGs and prioritise early actions. It demonstrates that even small companies can make a real difference, particularly through their services.

In the framework of the 2020 review of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, this guide aims to provide countries with advice on how to enhance ambition and address the six elements of ‘Action for Climate Empowerment’ (ACE) – Education, Training, Public Awareness, Public Access to Information, Public Participation and International Cooperation – in their respective NDCs.

This brochure presents the main findings from GAP Key Partner monitoring surveys which capture the achievements of the GAP between 2015 and 2019.GAP Key Partners working in five Priority Action Areas reached 9 out of the 10 targets they set in 2015. This represents an important and impressive achievement in progress towards SDG Target 4.7 as well as the 2030 Agenda more widely, with ESD an important element of quality education and an instrument to make progress on all SDGs.