Promoting Sustainable Consumption: Good practices in OECD Countries is part of the OECD contribution to the UN Marrakech Process on Sustainable Consumption and Production.
The report reviews the approaches taken in different OECD countries to promote sustainable consumption, categorising these approaches as follows:
- standards and labels
- taxes and charges
- subsidies and incentives
- communications campaigns
- education
- voluntary labelling
- corporate reporting
- advertising
- public procurement
- understanding consumer behaviour
- combining policy instruments
- institutionalising sustainable consumption
At the end of each of these it gives a few good practice case studies of specific actions taken by various countries.
The report concludes that the "complexity and array of government tools and initiatives directed at sustainable consumption underline the need for more integrated programmes as well as institutionalisation of sustainable consumption in sustainable development strategies"
For more about the Marrakech Process see here
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