What is Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP)?
SCP simply stands for Sustainable Consumption and Production. Every day we buy products and services that are produced by industry. SCP wants to green this cycle of manufacturing, buying and using of products.
Principles of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP):
There are many SCP practices that we use to make our lives more sustainable. It can be as simple as turning off unnecessary lights. Industry can implement SCP by recycling and not disposing waste. Demanding and buying green products is a positive and progressive move towards SCP.
Why SCP policies for Sri Lanka?
As environmental problems increase, it has become clear that communities across the world need to adopt more sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns in order to reduce both the use of natural resources and CO2 emissions. SCP focuses on more environmentally friendly and socially fair ways of designing, producing, using, and recycling of products and services. SCP strategies can improve the efficiency with which industry uses re-sources, and can change the consumption patterns of people so they live within the limits of the planet. Indirectly, SCP can alleviate poverty and provide social protection and access to basic needs and services. The SCP approach applies life cycle thinking, which considers the impacts from all life cycle stages of the production and consumption process.
The project employs SCP TOOLS such as green procurement, life cycle thinking, eco-labelling and eco-innovation. The project will introduce financial mechanisms to scale-up sustainable products and services.
The Government of Sri Lanka plays a significant role in promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production by encouraging specific models of economic development with its supporting policy and regulations.
The National Policy on Sustainable Consumption and Production for Sri Lanka has been developed and approved by the Cabinet of Ministers on 29.10.2019. This policy will be an overarching national policy in Sri Lanka on Sustainable Consumption and Production, which is coherent and integrated with related sectoral policies, is the need of the hour for achieving the desired goal of economic and sustainable development.
This policy will provide an effective framework and the necessary impetus to enhance the sustainability of the country‟s economic development drives through efficient and effective utilization of it natural resources.
Review of existing SCP Policies and institutional processes. Develop a draft national SCP policy framework through inter-ministerial consultations and capacity development.
This component will foster the application of the Sustainable Production Policy Framework and Sustainable Production principles in selected sectors.
This component will foster the Sustainable Consumption Framework and national innovation system through promotion of green public procurement, eco-labelling policies and innovative approaches.
This component will develop SCP awareness raising and SCP educational programmes, including an online knowledge and e-learning platform for maximum outreach.
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Meeting of the voluntary committee on IAEWG
National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP) 2022-2030
SCP Forum (IAEWG) Meeting (6th Meeting)
Sri Lanka SCP Multi-stakeholder Consultation
Workshop for developing Water Sector Green Accounts for Sri Lanka
Presidential Environment Awards-2019 for National Green Reporting System of Sri Lanka
National Policy on Sustainable Consumption and Production
Completion of e learning course on Sustainable Consumption and Production
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