12. Responsible Consumption and Production – SDG Report
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ENSURE SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION PATTERNS.

Worldwide consumption and production — a driving force of the global economy — needs to rest on the use of the natural environment and resources in a way that does more with less resources. Today we consume much more than what is sustainable for the planet. For example, a third of the food produced is not eaten.

To ensure sustainable living conditions for current and future generations, all consumers must change their lifestyle to reduce resource use, environmental damage and climate emissions as a society and as an individual. Learn more

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Target 12.1: Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries.

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Target 12.2: Achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.

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Target 12.3: Halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.

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Target 12.4: Achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment.

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Target 12.5: By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.

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Target 12.6: Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle.

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Target 12.7: Promote sustainable public procurement practices, in accordance with national policies and priorities.

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Target 12.8: Ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.

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Target 12.A: Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production.

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Target 12.B: Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products.

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Target 12.C: Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the needs and specific conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and affected communities.

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