A Key Solution to Climate Change: Sustainable Consumption and Production - Making The Link
his booklet has been published by the EU funding programme SWITCH-Asia: Promoting Sustainable consumption and Production. It is aimed at European and Asian businesses, organisations involved in developing sustainability solutions, policy-makers, and project developers wanting to help reduce the climate change impact of business in as broad a way as possible. It should be particularly useful to those interested in obtaining grant funds from the SWItch-Asia Programme, and in sharing the benefits of the network of SWITCH-Asia projects.
Its objectives are:
- to present a picture of how business and consumers are contributing to climate change, with particular reference to the situation in Asia;
- to outline the concepts of the Sustainable Consumption and Production approach;
- to present sustainable consumption and production technologies and approaches that can be used for climate change mitigation and adaptation;
- to provide ideas for policy-makers and project developers seeking funding under the SWITCH-Asia Programme;
- to show how SCP thinking can support the EU climate change position and goals.
This booklet has two sides – side one deals with the ‘challenges’ in understanding the causal relationship between economic activities and climate change, and the flip side highlights some practical ‘solutions’ that can be funded, at least in part, by the programme.