An NGO blueprint for sustainable consumption and production (SCP) calls on governments, business and citizens to consume less and start living within Earth's limits.
The blueprint is born out of the "frustration" of knowing what to do but not doing enough, said the report's author, Doreen Fedrigo of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), an NGO.
SCP talks were launched at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and a framework for action was adopted at the Johannesburg Summit in 2002. But little political action followed these developments, Fedrigo explained. Moreover, the EU's SCP plans merely suggest "convenient truths" conditioned by technical progress, she deplored.
Reacting to the blueprint, Gunilla Blomquist, deputy director of the Swedish Environment Ministry, agreed that SCP lacked "political leadership". She also found it "unfortunate" that the EU's SCP plans did not focus on "priority areas" like housing, food and transport.
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