- Get help solving an important climate issue around consumption or production
- Figure out which part of the consumption or production problem you can solve in your community
WHAT IS SDG 12 ALL ABOUT?
Every community is impacted by SDG 12 issues. Here are some big ones you can relate to.
Are you thinking,
recycling
is the best solution?
Did you know there
are many more powerful
things you could work on?
START: UN SDG TARGETS
Click on each tab on the left to read each target. For each target, consider
- what is the main issue around this target?
- is this some
12.1 Implement the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries.
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This target might be too global to address.
12.2 By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.
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Natural resource management & use is a good target!
12.3 By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses. |
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Food waste and production food losses are good targets to work on!
12.4 By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment.
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Chemical and electronic waste is a good target to try to address.
12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.
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This is a good target, but perhaps focus on reduction and reuse, not recycling!
12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle.
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This target might be hard to address because it focuses on large companies
12.7 Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities.
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This target addresses national policies so might not be an easy target to focus on.
12.8 By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.
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This target is all about education and awareness, a good target!
12.A Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production.
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A good possible target, but might require interaction with government.
12.B Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products.
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Tourism is an interesting and different target to try to address.
12.C Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities
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Fossil fuel subsidies would be part of national policies, so not an easy target to work on.
As a summary, these targets could be good ones to start brainstorming for project ideas.
12.2 By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.
12.3 By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.
12.4 By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment.
12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.
12.8 By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.
12.B Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products.
NEXT STEPS
- Look at the SDG 12 targets.
- Choose some of interest.
- Start generating thoughts and ideas around each topic.
- Relate to issues in your own community.
- Connect ideas that relate.
Here is a brainstorming example.
Then
- From your map, select one or two particular areas to focus on.
- Dig deeper with some research into those particular ideas and topics.
For example, you might choose Food Waste and Textiles and Clothing to focus on.
ACTIVITY: BRAINSTORMING
Make a mind map to generate ideas around the SDG 6 targets
- Write down issues, ideas, organizations, people in boxes or bubbles
- Connect related boxes
- Review the ideas and themes.
- Select one or two main themes/issues that interest you and that you have seen in your community.
- Research those topics further and start to brainstorm solutions.
NEXT STEPS
Research
Start with the UN SDG 12 website to learn about the targets and follow links
Community
Connect issues you’ve discovered here to issues you know about in your community
People
Follow people who are working in this space on social media to learn more and even contact them
Document
Keep your links and notes organized using bookmarks and Google docs or folder
