The United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs has published a short report that highlights trends in resource extraction and use, as well as key stresses on the world's ecosystems and life-support systems to which human activities are contributing.
It then highlights major policy and voluntary initiatives which have been designed to move economies and societies towards sustainable patterns of consumption and production, illustrated with cases from around the world. Finally, it examines trends in technology and finance and what their contribution can be to putting economies on a more sustainable path.
Chapter four provides some interesting information on public and voluntary initiatives that are taking place around the world, focusing on approaches to eco-taxation, infrastructure and buildings, public procurement, and standards and labelling.
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