Product Sustainability Information: State of Play and Way Forward

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-11T20:15:30Z
dc.date.available2016-10-11T20:15:30Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionUnsustainable patterns of consumption and production threaten global development and environmental wellbeing. Ensuring sustainable consumption and production should take a life cycle approach, and central to this is the development of product sustainability information (PSI). This publication provides four key recommendations in order to advance a coherent and context-relevant use of PSI that is useful for consumer decision-making: 1. Provide a global guidance for inter-operability of PSI tools (their development and use), and manage concerns over trade barriers while reducing uncertainty in the information that the tools produce. This can be done under the umbrella of the Consumer Information Programme under the 10 Year Framework of Programmes. 2. Encourage major PSI actors, i.e. label and tools associations to use life cycle-based principles as criteria for the alignment of their work. 3. Facilitate the inclusion and engagement of representatives of developing and emerging economies in international efforts on PSI. 4. Create an international dialogue between brand owners, retailers, consumer organisations and policymakers in order to acknowledge the different cultures and contexts to develop a better understanding of what consumers will recognise to be information that is credible upon which they can act.en
dc.formatpdf
dc.identifier.isbn978-92-807-3478-2
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/9725
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subject.sdgSDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
dc.titleProduct Sustainability Information: State of Play and Way Forwarden
dc.typeTechnical report
wd.identifier.old-id11754
wd.identifier.sdgiohttp://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000046

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