Key objectives
The Regional SCP Roadmap will seek to promote initiatives that increasingly foster ways of living, social behaviours and choices that minimize environmental degradation while supporting equitable socio-economic development and better quality of life for all.
Asia Pacific is home to over 4.2 billion people, over 50 per cent of the world’s urban population and sixteen out of 28 mega cities. Many Asian economies achieved rapid economic development during the last few decades, accompanied by rapid population growth and urbanization. Millions of people have been lifted out of poverty and have improved their quality of life, with some 700 million people becoming middle-high income consumers. At the same time, millions remain impoverished and environmental degradation is increasing.
To promote a common framework of understanding for what constitutes sustainable lifestyles and more sustainable ways for achieving economic prosperity the roadmap will focus on the following objectives;
- Promote sustainable lifestyle principles and practices across regional and national platforms
- Develop tools and provide capacity building for achieving sustainable lifestyles and disseminating good practices
- Promote sustainable lifestyles through educational programmes and awareness-raising activities
Links to SDGs and the 10YFP
Activities in this sectoral work package will contribute the implementation of the following sustainable development goals (SDGs):
- 12.8, 12.1, 17.9
Roadmap activities
A. Regional/sub-regional policy dialogues, trainings and networking
- A1: Provide Sustainable Lifestyle and Education (SLE) awareness raising and capacity building through established sub-regional SCP fora, including stronger networking and dialogue through the 10YFP SLE Programme
- A2: Regional academic SCP programme for young professionals, private sector professionals or development consultants and young academics (SCP Winter School)
- A3: Development of Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) for SCP for Asia Pacific
- A4: Organise “Sustainable consumption week for low carbon lifestyles in Asia” to enable dialogue between policy makers and leaders from the private sector on the policy support required for the private sector to enable sustainable consumption and ensure sustainable production (national governments, NGOs, private sector)
B. Regional or national awareness raising campaigns
- B1: The 4 Billion Dreams Asia-Pacific Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) multimedia awareness-raising campaign for youth
- B2: SCRIPT (Sustainable Consumption and Recycling Interventions for Paper and Textiles) for Reducing Urban Climate Footprint
C. Regional and national technical analysis for policy development
- C1: Conduct an assessment of lifestyles and develop possible scenarios of future sustainable lifestyles in Asia Pacific, including pathways for realization
- C2: Develop a framework for monitoring programs and projects on sustainable lifestyles and their social and environmental impacts
- C3: Conduct an analysis of business models that can facilitate sustainable lifestyles, and recommendations for government and businesses
- C4: Collect and analyses case studies on government policies, instruments, and programs to promote sustainable lifestyles, highlighting the key features, institutional arrangements for implementation and social and environmental impacts
D. National training activities
- D1: National academic SCP programme for young professionals, private sector professionals or development consultants and young academics (SCP Winter School)
- D2: Development of training packages/curricula on SLE for national level adaptation, including trainings for policymakers
