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Connecting Communities of Practice on Sustainable Production & Consumption

Connecting Communities of Practice on Sustainable Production & Consumption. Jeffrey Barber Copenhagen Climate Exchange 5 December 2009. How to transform the fossil-fuel dependent industrial-consumer economy?. Global footprint keeps growing. Billion global ha. Living Planet Report , WWF (2004).

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Connecting Communities of Practice on Sustainable Production & Consumption

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  1. Connecting Communities of Practiceon Sustainable Production & Consumption Jeffrey BarberCopenhagen Climate Exchange5 December 2009

  2. How to transform the fossil-fuel dependentindustrial-consumer economy?

  3. Global footprint keeps growing Billion global ha Living Planet Report, WWF (2004)

  4. Policy interdependencies

  5. Climatechange Air & waterpollution Biodiversity loss Healththreats Urbansprawl Production/consumption cycle Waste-pollution-depletion Sustainability strategies & initiatives Waste-pollution-depletion

  6. What drives the cycle? Distribution – product pricing, marketing/ advertising, packaging, transport,sales/trade Investment of resources (money, natural, labor, knowledge) Values – Root priorities which ultimately shape all other decisions

  7. Production/consumption cycle Production Investment Distribution Values Consumption

  8. Lifecycle assessment

  9. Lifecycle assessment Investment Production EmisssionsWasteInequities Values Consumption Distribution

  10. Policy perspectives

  11. Production/consumption sectorsgenerating GHG emissions

  12. Policies and practices

  13. …and change the production/consumption cycle in each sector Automobiles Transport

  14. Emission sources from automobile production & consumption Automobiles

  15. Changing the system of production and consumption

  16. Policies and practices

  17. Communities of Practice A group that tends to evolve around an issue with its own unique culture. It has its own language (jargon and acronyms), conferences, friendships and journals. They work at different scales from the local level to the national to the international.

  18. Production-based practices:Sustainable manufacturing • Competitiveness & profitability • Green product portfolio • Low-carbon products • Carbon offsetting • Lifecycle approach • Emissions reduction • Sustainable supply chain management • Remanufacturing

  19. Policies and practices

  20. Consumption-based practices and communities • Key Terms: • Simplicity • Simple living • Downshifting • Frugality • Sufficiency • Quality of life

  21. Communities of practice • Concepts and principles • Literature (key books, papers) • Skills, training, education • Terminology or jargon • Gatherings (conferences, study groups) • Goals or aims • Saints and heroes • Personal friendships • Collective history

  22. There is the footprint we leave And there are the steps we take forward.

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