We cordially invite you to
International Conference
on
Strategies to Promote Sustainable Consumption
on 23rd & 24th April, 2012
Sessions during the Conference
23rd April: Sessions on Eco-Labelling, Life Cycle Assessment and Green Public Procurement & Consumer Awareness
24th April: Comparative Testing & Role of Business for Sustainable Consumption
Present at the Inaugural Session
Mr. Manoj Parida, Jt. Secretary, Ministry of Consumer Affairs;
Mr. Surjit Singh, Jt. Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forests;
Dr. Antje Gölner-Scholz, First Secretary, Economic Cooperation & Development, German Embassy;
Mrs. Swarn Kohli, Trustee, Consumer Education & Research Centre (CERC); &
Mr.Patrick von Braunmühl, Senior Advisor, Deutsche Gesell-schaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Programme Details – Inaugural
Date & Time: 1O AM on Monday, 23rd April, 2012
Venue: Casuarina, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
About the Conference: Consumers
play a key role in making progress towards more sustainable consumption
and production patterns. But due to a lack of independent and reliable
information on the environmental quality of products, low awareness of
consumers and misleading green claims, the consumers’ possibilities to
make the right purchase decisions are very limited. There is an urgent
and increasing necessity to educate and motivate consumers to change
their consumption patterns towards more sustainability as rising incomes
and consumer-spending in India increase the negative impact of
consumption on the environment and climate.
Governments,
civil society organisations as well as businesses can make major
contributions towards the promotion of sustainable consumption by
raising the consumers’ awareness and providing useful information to
influence their consumption behaviour. Eco-labelling, Life Cycle
Assessment, awareness campaigns, comparative testing and responsible
advertising are effective instruments to foster sustainable consumption
patterns. Also governments and businesses themselves can take conscious
decisions to purchase sustainable products and act as role models for
consumers via the establishment of sustainable public procurement as
well as green supply chains and Corporate Social Responsibility.
CERC
in cooperation with GIZ organises a two day conference on “Strategies
to Promote Sustainable Consumption” to suggest ways for the revision of
Ecomark, the eco-labelling scheme with unfortunately little success, and
to identify possible synergies between different stakeholders towards
the promotion of sustainable consumption.
For further queries, please contact:
Le Communiqué Consultancy
Yusuf uz Zaman / Shakti Raj Vidyarthi / Suniti Kr Bhattachrjya
+91 9891 6535 47 /+91 9711 1181 89 / +91 9818 4231 48
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