Shaping the Economy of Sustainable Development
This series of regional reports presents an overview of policies and initiatives related to sustainable consumption and production advanced by the national governments of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin American and Caribbean and North America.
Although not pretending to present an exhaustive overview, those reports provide the most complete policy baseline ever developed in the area of SCP at national level. They were developed based on extensive literature review as well as on the results of a pilot survey conducted by UN Environment, serving as Secretariat of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes, end of 2015, to which nearly 50 countries responded. The reports provide key elements of the regions' socioeconomic and environmental profile, which sets the scene, an introduction to regional frameworks and networks promoting more sustainable consumption and production patterns, as well as an initial review of relevant national policy frameworks and instruments, with two objectives: understanding ongoing efforts to create the conditions for an economy of sustainable development, and laying the foundations for a baseline that can serve as a starting point to track progress on sustainable consumption and production policies, in the context of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals. The reports also present several case studies and country success stories from , as inspiring examples of government-led initiatives for sustainable consumption and production.
