Assessing impact of unsustainable production and consumption patterns

In the follow-up to the implementation of Agenda 21, reviewing the role and impact of unsustainable production and consumption patterns and lifestyles and their relation to sustainable development should be given high priority.

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Promoting strategic environmental impact assessment
2. Changing consumption patterns
3. Achieving sustainable production and consumption

1. Using production to serve consumption needs

1. Replicating patterns of unsustainable consumption

1. Unsustainable
2. Unproductivity
3. Underproduction
4. Overproduction
5. Overconsumption
6. Consumption