Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Responsible Consumption & Production


Sustainable consumption and production is about promoting resource and energy efficiency, sustainable infrastructure, and providing access to basic services, green and decent jobs and a better quality of life for all. Its implementation helps to achieve overall development plans, reduce future economic, environmental and social costs, strengthen economic competitiveness and reduce poverty.

At the current time, material consumption of natural resources is increasing, particularly within Eastern Asia. Countries are also continuing to address challenges regarding air, water and soil pollution.

Since sustainable consumption and production aims at “doing more and better with less,” net welfare gains from economic activities can increase by reducing resource use, degradation and pollution along the whole life cycle, while increasing quality of life. There also needs to be significant focus on operating on supply chain, involving everyone from producer to final consumer. This includes educating consumers on sustainable consumption and lifestyles, providing them with adequate information through standards and labels and engaging in sustainable public procurement, among others.

Name Acronym Founded City HQ Country/Territory HQ Type I Type II

Convention for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna

 1993 T g

Convention for the Conservation of the Biodiversity and the Protection of Wilderness Areas in Central America

 1992 T g

Convention for the Conservation of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Environment

 Jeddah convention 1982 Jeddah Saudi Arabia T g

Convention for the Establishment of Stations for Agricultural Experiments and Animal Industries

 1923 T g

Convention for the Maintenance, Preservation and Reestablishment of Peace

 1936 T g

Convention for the Mutual Recognition of Inspections in Respect of the Manufacture of Pharmaceutical Products

 PIC 1970 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds and Fish in Africa

 1900 T g

Convention for the Protection of Commercial, Industrial, and Agricultural Trade Marks and Commercial Names

 1923 T g

Convention for the Protection of Patents of Invention, Designs and Industrial Models

 1910 T g

Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms

 Geneva Convention 1971 Paris France T g

Convention for the Regulation of Transit and Communications on the System of the Danube-Save-Adriatic Railway Company

 1923 T g

Convention for the Settlement of Certain Conflicts of Laws in Connection with Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes

 1930 T g

Convention for the Unification for the Law of Bills of Exchange and Cheques

 1912 T g

Convention Internationale sur la Responsabilité et L'indemnisation pour les Dommages Liés au Transport par Mer de Substances Nocives et Potentiellement Dangereuses

 Convention SNPD 1996 T g

Convention Limiting the Hours of Work in Industrial Undertakings to Eight in the Day and Forty-eight in the Week

 1919 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention of Mutual Assistance in Respect of the Collection of the Turnover Tax, the Purchase Tax and other Similar Taxes

 1964 T g

Convention on Agency in the International Sale of Goods

 1983 Rome Italy T g

Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Caused During Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road, Rail and Inland Navigation Vessels

 CRTD 1989 T g

Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to the Environment

 1993 Strasbourg France T g

Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage Resulting from Exploration for and Exploitation of Seabed Mineral Resources

 1977 T g

Convention on Conservation of Nature in the South Pacific

 1976 T g

Convention on Export of Guano, 1857

 1857 T g

Convention on fisheries and the conservation of living marine resources in the Black Sea

 1993 J gp

Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources in the Baltic Sea and the Belts

 Gdansk convention 1973 T g

Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas

 1958 T g

Convention on International Financial Leasing

 1988 Rome Italy T g

Convention on Inventions, Patents, Designs and Industrial Models

 1910 Washington DC USA T g

Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Cooperation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children

 1996 The Hague Netherlands T g

Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims

 LLMC 1976 London UK T g

Convention on Nature Protection and Wild Life Preservation in the Western Hemisphere

 1940 T g

Convention on Patents of Invention, Drawings and Industrial Models, Trademarks, and Literary and Artistic Property

 1906 Washington DC USA T g

Convention on Reduction of Cases of Multiple Nationality and Military Obligations in Cases of Multiple Nationality

 1963 Strasbourg France T g

Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects

 1995 Rome Italy T g

Convention on the Avoidance of Double Taxation on Personal Income and Property

 1977 T g

Convention on the Avoidance of Double Taxation on the Income and Property of Corporate Bodies

 1978 T g

Convention on the Ban of the Import of Hazardous Wastes into Africa and on the Control of Their Transboundary Movements within Africa

 Bamako Convention 1991 T g

Convention on the Conservation and Management of Fishery Resources in the South-East Atlantic Ocean

 2001 T g

Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific Ocean

 2009 T g

Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

 Pacific tuna convention 2000 T g

Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock in the Central Bering Sea

 1994 T g

Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

 CCAMLR 1980 Hobart TAS Australia T g

Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats

 Bern convention 1979 Strasbourg France T g

Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals

 Bonn Convention 1979 Bonn Germany T g

Convention on the Conservation of the Living Resources of the Southeast Atlantic

 1969 Rome Italy T g

Convention on the International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects

 1972 T g

Convention on the Law Applicable to Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

 1986 The Hague Netherlands T g

Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations

 1980 T g

Convention on the Law Applicable to International Sales of Goods

 1955 The Hague Netherlands T g

Convention on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations

 1973 The Hague Netherlands T g

Convention on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations Towards Children

 1956 The Hague Netherlands T g

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