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Connecting Communities of Practiceon Sustainable Production & Consumption
Jeffrey Barber
Copenhagen Climate Exchange5 December 2009
How to transform the fossil-fuel dependentHow to transform the fossil-fuel dependentindustrial-consumer economy?industrial-consumer economy?
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Living Planet Report, WWF (2004)
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Policy interdependencies
Climatechange
Biodiversityloss
Air & waterpollution
Healththreats
Urbansprawl
Waste-pollution-depletion
Sustainability strategies &
initiatives
Waste-pollution-depletion
Production/consumption cycle
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
Production/consumption cycleProduction/consumption cycle
Production
Consumption
DistributionInvestment
Values
Lifecycle assessmentLifecycle assessment
Lifecycle assessmentLifecycle assessment
EmisssionsWasteInequities
Consumption Distribution
Production
Investment
Values
Policy perspectives
Production/consumption sectorsProduction/consumption sectorsgenerating GHG emissionsgenerating GHG emissions
Policies and practices Policies and practices
……and change the production/consumption and change the production/consumption cycle in each sectorcycle in each sector
TransportAutomobiles
Emission sources from automobile Emission sources from automobile production & consumptionproduction & consumption
Automobiles
Changing the system of Changing the system of production and consumptionproduction and consumption
Policies and practices Policies and practices
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.
Production-based practices:Sustainable manufacturing
• Competitiveness & profitability
• Green product portfolio
• Low-carbon products
• Carbon offsetting
• Lifecycle approach
• Emissions reduction
• Sustainable supply chain management
• Remanufacturing
Policies and practices Policies and practices
Consumption-based practices and communities
Key Terms:
• Simplicity
• Simple living
• Downshifting
• Frugality
• Sufficiency
• Quality of life
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
There is the footprint we leaveThere is the footprint we leave
And there are the steps we take forward.And there are the steps we take forward.