Resolution adopted by the United Nations Environment Assembly on 15 March 2019

Innovative pathways to achieve sustainable consumption and production
The United Nations Environment Assembly,
Recognizing that achieving sustainable consumption and production is an essential requirement
for sustainable development, and that ensuring this change in consumption and production patterns is
reflected in a goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
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Underlining the importance of advancing sustainable consumption and production patterns,
including, but not limited to, through the circular economy and other sustainable economic models and
the implementation of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and
Production Patterns,2
Recognizing the variety of policies that countries implement to move towards sustainable
consumption and production, such as resource efficiency, the circular economy, sustainable materials
management and the “three Rs” (reduce, reuse, recycle),
Recognizing also that innovative approaches and solutions are necessary to move the world
closer to the vision set out in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development, entitled “The future we want”,
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and in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Recognizing further the commitment made under the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third
International Conference on Financing for Development4
to continue to support developing countries
in strengthening their scientific, technological and innovative capacity to move towards more
sustainable patterns of consumption and production, including through implementation of the 10-Year
Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns,