Transform Together — The 2030 Initiative for Sustainable Consumption and Production

Coordination on SCP

• Transform Together - multi-stakeholder partnership promoting scaleable and replicable SCP practices
  Transform Together - multi-stakeholder partnership promoting scaleable and replicable SCP practices

  Regions

  Global / All regions

  Lead organization

  Bioregional

  Objective

  Establish Transform Together as a widely recognised global multi-stakeholder initiative that works to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by identifying sharting and advocating - through existing networks and policy processes – scaleable and replicable sustainable consumption and production (SCP) practices

  Achievements

  Transform Together selected consumer goods as its first priority and decided to focus on smartphones, one of the most widely used consumer goods, and established a Working Group on sustainable smartphones in 2016. The partnership now has over 50 experts on its mailing list of which around 25-30 are active members of the group. The partnership convenes 3-4 times a year to work on specific activities and seek input from its members. The group has worked during 2016-18 to draw out replicable and scalable solutions for sustainable smartphones; these were summarised in a report "Creating sustainable smartphones: Scaling up best practice to achieve SDG 12" published in May 2018. This work was subsequently considered and further developed in a workshop of the group in Brussels on 19 June 2018. Seven of the solutions identified were also presented by the group members at a side-event at the UN High Level Political Forum for the Sustainable Development on 9 July 2018. As the result of these activities, Transform Together has now extended the scope of the smartphones working group to cover ICT products more broadly and created a vision for a global ecosystem change for sustainable smartphones and ICT by 2030. The strategy to achieve the vision has a strong focus on leveraging the power of volume buyers and procurers of ICT products, who have the opportunity to create a powerful market pull for more sustainable products and encourage sustainable practices in the global ICT supply chains. Transform Together is now finalising this approach and planning the practical actions that are required to achieve the 2030 vision.

• Building a partnership for sustainable ICT and smartphones
  Building a partnership for sustainable ICT and smartphones

  Regions

  Global / All regions

  Lead organization

  Transform Together has been led by the Governments of the Netherlands, Finland and German and coordinated by Bioregional (a UK-based NGO)

  Objective

  Transform Together is a multi-stakeholder partnership that drives the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -especially Goal 12 Responsible Consumption and Production.

  Achievements

  The concept is, that we already know, in so many ways, how to be sustainable. There are many great examples of best practice around the world. We need to replicate and scale these best practices with urgency in order to achieve the SDGs. We are currently working on consumer goods, with focus on ICT products and smartphones in particular. Our vision is of a world in which individuals, business, and governments work together to consume and produce sustainably.