Lewis AKENJI

Status assessment of SCP Policy in Asia-Pacific region, in preparation for Rio+20 conference

Remarks: Funding for this project is provided by the Asian Development Bank

The basic idea behind EPR is that: the burden of responsibility for the end-of-life treatment of products placed onto the market should be taken by the producers. EPR is usually conceived as a comprehensive policy package, combining various instruments to simultaneously achieve three distinct objectives: - Improved waste management and resource...

Remarks: Presentation at the Second CORPUS project “Policy Meets Research” Workshop on Sustainable Housing, Helsinki, March 2012

The Global Outlook on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Policies, developed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) with the financial support of the European Commission, provides a non-exhaustive review of policies and initiatives that are promoting the shift towards SCP patterns. This report identifies examples of effective...

Remarks: Presentation at INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PRODUCT SUSTAINABILITY INFORMATION, Bangkok 16 Feb 2012

Remarks: This document was commissioned by the participants of the First ASEAN Forum on SCP on 25-26 April 2011 under the chairmanship of Indonesia as the 2011 Chair of ASEAN. It was coordinated by UNEP and developed by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan. The paper was made possible with the financial support of the EU through...