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The One Planet network implements the 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP). |
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2021 was not an easy one, and the Secretariat of the One Planet network would first like to wish a safe end of the year to all. We also extend a gracious thank you to the thousands of you who make up the One Planet network. You have continued to push forward during these extraordinary times, and demonstrate the innovation and resolve needed to keep moving forward on the ambitious path to transform the ways we produce and consume. We would like to take a moment to highlight some your accomplishments below
10YFP Mandate is extended until 2030 |
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This year the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly approved the extension of the 10YFP mandate until 2030, noting that “…unsustainable patterns of consumption and production are key drivers of natural resource depletion, climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and malnutrition…” This recognition of the centrality of sustainable consumption and production to the planetary crises we face would not be possible without each and every one of you. The One Planet network has brought renewed focus to sustainable consumption and production, and inspired a tide of action that is only gaining more momentum. We look forward to growing this global movement for SCP together in the coming weeks, months and years. Read the full resolution from the Second Committee
Across the OPN Programmes The programmes of the One Planet network are on the ground and in the trenches for sustainable consumption and production every day. Here is a small taste of some big accomplishments from 2021
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Video promo of the Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information The Guidelines have been a flagship effort from the Consumer Information programme, inspiring businesses around the globe as a practical instrument to counter the proliferation of diverging and unchecked product sustainability information tools. This video presents the 10 principles that make up the Guidelines and provides concrete examples for each of them. Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information in E-commerce To better facilitate sustainable consumption patterns in online retail UNEP and adelphi have developed the Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information in E-commerce. In addition to a webinar presenting these new guidelines, there are a series of 2-page outlines, describing how each of the Guidelines Principles can be applied in E-Commerce. Launch of ‘Sustainable Consumption for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services’ This report summarises the state of knowledge on the impacts of current consumption patterns on biodiversity and ecosystem services and gives an overview of recommendations for policy action and proposed measures.
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Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism The official launch of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism took place on 4 November 2021 in the Blue Zone of UNFCCC COP26. The 466 (and counting!) signatories of the Glasgow Declaration agree on five shared pathways to ensure climate action is aligned across all of tourism sector: Measure, Decarbonise, Regenerate, Collaborate, Finance. The Recommended Actions report is available to provide a starting point for signatories to design an ambitious and effective climate action plan. The first Glasgow Declaration Newsletter which is reporting on progress implementing the Declaration was recently published. Subscribe here to receive the future editions. Interested organizations are encourage to learn more and join this voluntary commitment. Global Tourism Plastics Initiative The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative was officially launched in 2020. As of 15 December 2021, it has 113 signatories. In December 2021, the first annual report was launched which makes clear the significant progress made in tackling plastics pollution in tourism over the past year. Despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Accor, Club Med, Hong-Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Iberostar Group, Melco, Six Senses from the accommodation sector and deSter a member of gategroup and the leading supplier to the aviation, hospitality and foodservice industries have all reported continuous efforts to implement their commitments to tackle plastic pollution. In July 2021, Addressing pollution from single-use plastic products: A Life Cycle Approach – Key messages for tourism businesses was launched in order to educate tourism stakeholders and provide evidence-based guidance for decision-making to address pollution from single- use plastic products. Two panel discussions on Eliminate Innovate Circulate were organized in March 2021 and July 2021 to share some best practices from the GTPI signatories. Three GTPI Newsletters have been published in June, July and November 2021. If you want to stay up to date, you can subscribe here to receive the future editions.
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Circular Built Environment Reports The Sustainable Buildings and Construction programme has published regional reports on the state of play for circular built environment in Africa, Asia, Europe, Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania. In addition to regional outlooks, a global report has been produced to summarise and compare the state of play regarding circularity in different regions. A crucial role of the reports is not only to provide a benchmark but also recommendations on how to move forward towards a sustainable and circular built environment. Highlights from Asia, Africa and the Latin American and Caribbean region in 2021 provide a deep dive on policies, case studies and UN2030 Agenda Indicators in these regions based on a global survey and local consultations. New project: Transforming the Built Environment through Sustainable Materials The SBC programme is also happy to announce that in 2021 they signed on to a four year project in the programme’s core area of the Circular Built Environment. Germany’s Ministry of Development Cooperation (BMZ) has awarded the new project to UNEP, and it was launched at COP26. The project is linked to the SBC Programme and aims to support Ghana and Senegal in West Africa and Bangladesh and India in South Asia in promoting circularity in buildings through the creation of an enabling framework for the responsible acquisition of building materials while developing a sustainable materials market for the buildings and construction sector. The project will run for four years and seek also to underline the importance of sustainable materials in high level international processes such as the UNFCCC COPs and the G7.
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Boosting Circular and Fair IT Together On June 14th the Circular and Fair ICT Pact (CFIT) was officially launched under the leadership of the Netherlands, as a key initiative contributing to the SPP Programme. Seven countries have officially joined the pact committing to working together and using their collective procurement power to make laptops and smartphones more circular and fair. The pact connects relevant stakeholders on an international level to facilitate knowledge sharing between them. The focus lies on setting up buyer groups, capacity building, joint market consultation, a collective tender calendar and the sharing of best practices and lessons learned across borders. In addition, representatives will engage in high level dialogue with the industry, NGOs and other organizations to work towards ambitious circular and fair innovations.
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Contributions to the UN Food Systems Summit The SFS programme spent 2021 engrossed in the the preparations for, and follow up to, the first ever UN Food Systems Summit, which took place in September of this year. Through its members, the SFS programme was present in several of the coalitions that emerged in the context of the UNFSS (e.g. coalitions on agroecology, healthy diets, food losses and waste) and actively supported these, in particular by strengthening the systems perspective as well as participatory approaches. The programme is positioning itself to take a role in the important follow up actions to the Summit, to support countries, who are already showing their motivation. The December 2021 UNGA Agriculture development resolution specifically mentioned the 2021 Food Systems Summit and the SFS Programme, and urged Member States to implement their respective voluntary commitments made during the Summit. The resolution further urges Member States to promote integrated, balanced and holistic food systems approaches and multi-stakeholder dialogue, and cooperate to strengthen agroecological and other innovative approaches. These are all areas where the SFS programme has deep knowledge and commitment from it’s membership, and they look forward to contributing to this ambitious agenda moving forward. Multi-Stakeholder Mechanisms (MSMs) Initiative and Online Course on SFS The SFS Programme launched this initiaitve in 2021, which examined how MSMs, through a whole of society and a systems approach, can help tackle intertwined problems of climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, poverty, and health to meet sustainable food systems. Multi-Stakeholder Mechanism Initiatives bring together diverse food systems actors with different food-related agendas, from all stages of the value chain in an inclusive way to collaborate in pursuit of sustainable food systems. This initiative’s first report analyzes national and sub-national MSMs to understand how they are designed, how they function, who participates, what works and what doesn’t, and how they are contributing to the transition toward sustainable food systems. A series of three e-learning courses on Sustainable Food Systems was developed in collaboration with FAO. The course series highlights how systems thinking, and taking a sustainable food systems approach, can help to significantly improve project and policy design, and it is oriented to policy-makers and practitioners. Both resources are part of the SFS Programme’s broader suite of tools for an inclusive and sustainable transformation of food systems. Dialogue series on food systems and the post-2020 biodiversity framework (post-2020 GBF) The SFS Programme convened a series of three dialogues aimed at building consensus and key recommendations for the inclusion of targets related to food systems in the forthcoming post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The final stage of negotiations in the frame of the Conference of Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity will take place in March 2022. The dialogues built alignment and consensus among Parties to the CBD, key stakeholders and CBD support bodies, which materialized in a discussion paper that set out recommendations to strengthen current targets 10 and 16 of the draft post-2020 GBF. Recommendations focus on the transformation of food production systems, including, among other, through agroecology and reducing post-harvest losses, and the enabling of better consumption choices, including food waste mitigations and promotion of sustainable diets.
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Leading on Sustainable Lifestyle knowledge The SLE programme continued in 2021 to develop knowledge products to help identify and build on opportunities to promote sustainable lifestyles for an effective and inclusive shift towards sustainability. The report Co-Creating Sustainable Ways of Living 24 Stories of On-the-Ground Innovations draws key lessons from the 24 Trust Fund projects that the programme implemented over the past several years. The report highlights different strategies taken from around the world and brings them into one publication, to provide others with the achievements, lessons learned, and opportunities moving forward. The SLE programme also released the 1.5-Degree Lifestyles Magazine, which shares everyday stories about sustainble living, in order to inspire others to do the same. The topics covered include creativity, building communities, strength, stability, self-sufficiency, the snowball effect, and more!
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HAPPY NEW YEARS TO EVERYONE!!! |
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