Sustainable Consumption and Production

IGES cooperates with central and local governments, businesses, international organisations and other development partners to guide the transition to a resource efficient, circular and low carbon economy.  
 
Changing consumption and production patterns remains crucial for achieving a climate-resilient future. We promote upstream and downstream solutions aimed at supporting behaviour change and advancing resource efficiency including through the design of integrated waste management strategies.
 

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Strengthening ASEAN+3 Efforts to Tackle Marine Plastic Pollution

The 6th ERIA’s Experts Working Group (EWG) on Marine Plastic Debris Meeting was held on 18 February 2025 in a hybrid format, co-organised by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)’s Regional Knowledge Centre for Marine...
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Global Dialogue & Youth Day: Circular Economy Model of Waste Management

The UNEP Global Dialogue & Youth Day: Circular Economy Model of Waste Management, co-organized by UNEP-IETC, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), and the Global Environment Centre (GEC), convened key stakeholders from around...

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Dr. Johan Rockström Visits IGES and Delivers Special Lecture

On 9 October, Dr. Johan Rockström, the globally renowned scientist on planetary sustainability and leading researcher on planetary boundaries (Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the...

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G20 (2024) Special webpage

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Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency

In recent years, circular economy (CE) and resource efficiency (RE) have become central to the G7 / G20 process and the sustainable development agenda, as well as the response to climate change. A circular economy aims to realise resource circulation...