Abstract
The success of building sustainable consumption and production depends on creating a sufficient awareness and above all the involvement of all countries in the process of improving the environmental performance of products throughout their life cycle. Awareness and understanding of the social and economic dimension, influences building of sustainable consumption and production in the widest scale and makes it possible to encourage and motivate to socially responsible behavior. The article focuses on summarizing the basic attributes of sustainable consumption and production, as well as on the comparison of the progress of V4 countries in meeting the goal of "Responsible consumption and production" forming part of the Sustainable Development Agenda until 2030. We focus on indicators with quantitative target, where insufficient progress towards the EU target was achieved or there was a movement away from the target. The indicators are Primary energy consumption and Final energy consumption.
Highlights
The challenge today is a quality environment and sustainable development
We focused on the development of indicators of goal 12 „Responsible consumption and production“
Insufficient progress towards European Union (EU) target was recorded for the Primary energy consumption indicator
Summary
The challenge today is a quality environment and sustainable development. This can only be achieved by streamlining production and changing consumption patterns [1], enabling optimization of resource use and minimize waste [2]. They point out that there is currently an economic system that is in contradiction with natural laws, expecting someone else to resolve the consequences. In connection with the conditions of sustainable development of human society, the economic theory is faced with questions that need to be answered [7] These facts lead to the need to develop new concepts of wealth and prosperity, achieved through lifestyle change that will enable a higher standard of living with lower dependency on limited resources
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