Action Plan for Sustainable Production and Consumption - Report of the First Cycle of Implementation 2011 – 2014

The main objective of this report is to consolidate the information about the developed and/or implemented activities and initiatives for the promotion of sustainable production and consumption in the scope of the first cycle of implementation of the Action Plan for Sustainable Production and Consumption – PPCS (its abbreviation in Portuguese), from the time it was adopted until 2014. The report will not describe all initiatives and actions taken, both by government institutions and the private sector and by civil society in general; instead, it seeks to identify good practices and recommendations in order to adapt, replicate and disseminate existing policies and initiatives, as well as the challenges to be faced to strengthen the implementation of the Plan, thereby advancing its main goal which is the achievement of sustainable development in the country. In the construction of this new model, it is necessary to involve all sectors in the promotion of more sustainable production and consumption patterns. The tools used are dialogue and partnership, among others, and the strategies include the implementation of the Action Plan for Sustainable Production and Consumption – PPCS. The PPCS is an ambitious instrument that involves a number of complex and challenging priorities. However, even in its short implementation time, it has been possible to effect a clear change in patterns and practices that involve consumption and production in the country, in the sense that sustainability is now considered a paradigm of the development process. The challenge for the future is to strengthen and expand policies, programs, projects and initiatives that contribute to the goals of the Plan, identifying ways to monitor and evaluate them, and increasingly seek to involve all sectors of society in this fundamental e ort in order to assure a future with quality of life for present and future generations. This document was elaborated by conducting a data survey and collecting some of the information contained in reports and publications from government agencies, companies and non-governmental institutions, particularly the ones that are more involved with the implementation of the Sustainable Production and Consumption Plan. The results are organized according to the priorities established for the first cycle of implementation of the PPCS and they are supplemented with details on initiatives that contribute to other priorities and to the general objective of the Plan.