Workshop on Sustainable Consumption for Latin America and Caribbean: Meeting Report

The workshop was an initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), through its Regional Office for Latin America & the Caribbean (ROLAC, based in Mexico) and the Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, Production and Consumption Branch (DTIE, based in Paris), with the support of Carl Duisberg Brasil, part of the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft group. This event was also made possible thanks to the support of the Brazilian Environmental Ministry, the São Paulo State Secretariat, the São Paulo State Environmental Agency (CETESB) and UNESCO Brazil. The workshop lasted two days and took place in the city of São Paulo, on the São Paulo State Environmental Secretariat’s premises and had approximately 80 participants among professionals from academia, government, non-governmental organizations, the business sector, and media from 11 different countries from the Latin America and the Caribbean region, namely Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Jamaica, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Costa Rica and Colombia. The main objective of the workshop was to promote discussions, gather information and establish a working plan on sustainable consumption issues for the region. The main findings of the meeting will be compiled together with other contributions from other parts of the world to integrate a global status report on the issue of sustainable consumption to be presented at the World Summit on Sustainable Development to take place in Johannesburg in 2002.