Abstract
Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) was adopted as a stand-alone goal and reflected as one of the cross-cutting objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a central role to address global resource consumption and its associated environmental impacts, as well as numerous social and economic issues. With this broad characterization of SCP, policy integration is crucial in addressing it at national level. This paper analyzes characteristics of SCP policy integration based on a survey of national government policies. It reveals that SCP is not fully integrated in national policy-making; high resource consumption sectors such as urban planning, building, and tourism are not fully incorporated into national SCP policies, and there is only limited participation of relevant government ministries other than environment ministries. We find that among countries with horizontal policy integration, those with Green Economy/Green Growth frameworks tend to have better sectoral integration; and those with SCP-specific frameworks are likely to have broader coordination of ministries. By conducting cross-analysis using income level and region, the different characteristics of SCP policy-making approaches were identified. The results of this study provide a better understanding of how SCP is integrated into policy for effective national policy-making and measurement of the SDG Goal 12.
Highlights
Global resource demand and environmental pressure have been drastically increasing as both population and per capita consumption reach historic levels [1]
The responses to the questionnaire survey from national governments were analyzed to assess the characteristics of policy integration of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP)
The results of our analysis revealed that both sectoral and organizational policy integration of SCP
Summary
Global resource demand and environmental pressure have been drastically increasing as both population and per capita consumption reach historic levels [1]. The 10-Year Framework of Programmes for SCP (10YFP) was adopted at the Rio+20 summit in 2012, calling for “fundamental changes in the way societies consume and produce” which is “indispensable for achieving global sustainable development” [2]. Having recognized it as a core and overarching objective of sustainable development [3], SCP was adopted as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 [4]. Policy interaction, collaboration, and cooperation can be considered as related terms; e.g., policy integration “could require increased collaboration or cooperation between the agencies in different policy fields, but not necessarily” [20]
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