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The Global Goals & me > Kids4SDGs
a) Exploring Students' ideas about where they'd be living in 2030 and what they expect in terms of social order
b) Examples of Local Impacts
c) Information about GHG impact of various food
d) Example of GHG from various industries with analogy of blanket while sleeping
e) Example of local action, and toolkit for sustainable products
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Trash hack action learning for sustainable development: a teacher's guide
This guide is intended for lower-secondary education teachers, school administrators, staff and informal educators looking for ways to engage learners and communities around trash, waste management and, more widely, education for sustainable development. The guide’s contents and activities can be adjusted for older or younger ages.
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Guidelines on Environmental Product Information in E-Commerce
While consumers use the internet to look up information about a wide range of characteristics of products, online platforms often omit or provide inadequate and misleading environmental product information.
This resource provides some guidelines on how the content and the design of environmental product information should fulfill sustainability and good consumer information requirements while promoting transparency. Businesses are responsible for making appropriate product information available; stakeholders in government and civil society have the task of formulating and monitoring quality standards.
This brochure provides principles and quality criteria for credible environmental product information, with a special focus on digital media. It also aims at sensitising retailers, industry and service providers to the significance of environmental product information in e-commerce, and features an overview of options, tools and good practice examples.
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Recommendations for GPP Incentive Mechanisms
This report is one of the outcomes from the ‘Asia-Pacific Green Public Procurement Partnership Project’ launched by the Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI). The report has been prepared by SMaRT ECO Co., the Implementing Agency of the Project, under the close collaboration with the Pollution Control Department under the Ministry of Natural Resource & Environment of Thailand.
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Asia Pacific Green Public Procurement Partnership Project - Final report year 2
The Asia-Pacific Green Public Procurement Partnership Project aims to establish the foundation for Green Public Procurement (GPP) and promote its implementation by strengthening the capacities of partner countries and providing support for the creation of a market for environmentally-friendly products and services by transferring the experience of Korea in operating GPP and eco-labeling scheme.
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Asia-Pacific Green Public Procurement Partnership Project Final report for the 1st year
The "Asia-Pacific Green Public Procurement Partnership Project" is launched to provide
customized consultation and implementation assistance to the developing countries in the Asia-
Pacific region regarding Green Public Procurement (GPP). This pilot project aims to support the development of GPP-related policy basis and green market
through international cooperation in order to facilitate the implementation of GPP in the Asia-
Pacific region.
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Responsible Procurement Barometer 2020
The 2020 Barometer enables organizations in Québec and Canada to objectively self-assess and compare themselves to their peers and over time. In keeping with the political commitment to contribute to the attainment of sustainable development, the 2020 Barometer also evaluates the contribution of sustainable procurement to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out by the United Nations Environment Pro- gramme (UNEP).
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Case Study: On-Pack Recycling Label, facilitated by Worldwide Fund for Nature South Africa (WWF South Africa)
This case study provides a real-life example of how consumer information on plastic packaging can be aligned with the fundamental principles of the ‘Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information’ (UN Environment & ITC 2017).
The Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information are available here: http://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/resource/guidelines-providing-product-sustainability-information
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Case Study: UL Recycled Content Validation Mark
This case study provides a real-life example of how consumer information on plastic packaging can be aligned with the fundamental principles of the ‘Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information’ (UN Environment & ITC 2017).
The Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information are available here: http://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/resource/guidelines-providing-product-sustainability-information
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Case Study: PANT A,B,C
can be aligned with the fundamental principles of the ‘Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information’ (UN Environment & ITC 2017).
The Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information are available here: http://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/resource/guidelines-providing-product-sustainability-information
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Case Study: The Logo for Products with Reduced Packaging (LPRP)
This case study provides a real-life example of how consumer information on plastic packaging can be aligned with the fundamental principles of the ‘Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information’ (UN Environment & ITC 2017).
The Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information are available here: http://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/resource/guidelines-providing-product-sustainability-information
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Case Study: Australasian Recycling Label (ARL)
This case study provides a real-life example of how consumer information on plastic packaging can be aligned with the fundamental principles of the ‘Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information’ (UN Environment & ITC 2017).
The Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information are available here: http://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/resource/guidelines-providing-product-sustainability-information
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Key Messages for standard-setters and labelling organisations
The following key messages aim to guide standard-setters and labelling organisations to implement the Recommendations for Action from “Can I Recycle This?” A Global Mapping and Assessment of Standards, Labels and Claims on Plastic Packaging (UNEP & Consumers International 2020).
The key messages were developed through multi-stakeholder consultation facilitated by CI-SCP.
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Key Messages for Businesses
The following key messages aim to assist business leaders in implementing the Recommendations for Action from “Can I Recycle This?” A Global Mapping and Assessment of Standards, Labels and Claims on Plastic Packaging (UNEP & Consumers International 2020).
The key messages were developed through multi-stakeholder consultation facilitated by CI-SCP.
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Key Messages for Governments
The following key messages aim to assist governments in the implementation of the Recommendations for Action from “Can I Recycle This?” A Global Mapping and Assessment of Standards, Labels and Claims on Plastic Packaging (UNEP & Consumers International 2020).
The key messages were developed through multi-stakeholder consultation facilitated by CI-SCP.
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Recommendations for Supporting SMEs in the Transition to Circular Economy: A perspective on Thailand
Thailand's Ministry of Industry has proposed the circular economy framework as the future direction of “Factory 4.0” for Thai industries. Despite policies to promote circularity, Thailand has yet to achieve its full circular potential. SEI’s research highlights opportunities in: i) improving information and education; ii) encouraging regulation and policies; iii) financial incentives and penalties; and iv) improving access to technology and infrastructure for circularity.
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Phasing out Single-Use Plastic (SUP): Creating a New Default
Phasing out single-use plastics (SUP) in Thailand demands a commitment from different sector stakeholders - the private sector, as producer and purchaser of the material, plays an influential role in providing alternatives and realising sustainable consumption and production. The theory of change for effective cooperation around SUP sees the involvement of four parties: local government, community organisations, large corporations, and the wider business community.
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Sustainable Development Goals and Agro-Food System: the Case Study of the Future Food Institute
Food For Earth is an open source tool developed by Future Food Institute in order to model the climate crisis and regenerate the planet, starting from food. This is composed of five innovation areas (Food diplomacy, Circular living, Climate smart ecosystems, Food identity and Prosperity), which involve at different level the 2030 Agenda SDGs, and four action tools (Humana Communitas, Platforms, Models, and Metrics). This instrument seeks to bring both environmental and behavioral changes.
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Facilitating Collaborative Partnerships in Education Policy Research: A Case of Multi-Stakeholder, Co-Investigation for Monitoring and Evaluation of Education for Sustainable Development
The paper examines the wider debates regarding the research-policy
interface, and it identifies the learning features that were achieved in this collaborative partnership, as well as the benefits this had for the research and knowledge co-generation. The paper concludes with a discussion of the challenges and issues M&E raises about the relationship between research and policy in ESD and suggests ways to address them.
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Towards a Common Understanding of Sustainable Food Systems: Key approaches, concepts and terms
This publication puts into context related concepts and approaches that can be used to address the multiple food systems challenges, with the aim to facilitate a common understanding. This common understanding is expected to support a more rapid and robust transition to more sustainable food systems at local, national, regional, and global levels.
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Multinational dialogue: Assessing the Role of Youth in Achieving Responsible Consumption and Production
On Monday November 16, 3.00pm – 4.30pm Central European Time, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and United Nations Development Program's Environmental Governance Program (EGP) held an online webinar to discuss the role of youth in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 12. Participants from Uppsala University, the Swedish Development Forum, YOUNGO and other organisations in Sweden met with participants from the EGP's Young Environmental Journalist program to explore this issue.
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