Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Responsible Consumption & Production


Goal 12 is about ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns, which is key to sustain the livelihoods of current and future generations.

Our planet is running out of resources, but populations are continuing to grow. If the global population reaches 9.8 billion by 2050, the equivalent of almost three planets will be required to provide the natural resources needed to sustain current lifestyles.

We need to change our consumption habits, and shifting our energy supplies to more sustainable ones are one of the main changes we must make if we are going to reduce our consumption levels. However, global crises triggered a resurgence in fossil fuel subsidies, nearly doubling from 2020 to 2021.

We are seeing promising changes in industries, including the trend towards sustainability reporting being on the rise, almost tripling the amount of published sustainability over just a few years, showing increased levels of commitment and awareness that sustainability should be at the core of business practices.

Food waste is another sign of over consumption, and tackling food loss is urgent and requires dedicated policies, informed by data, as well as investments in technologies, infrastructure, education and monitoring. A staggering 931 million tons of food is wasted a year, despite a huge number of the global population going hungry.

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

International Black Sea Club

IBSC 1992 Varna Bulgaria F

International Blaise Users Group

IBUG 1992 Ann Arbor MI USA E c

International Book Information Service

IBIS St Albans UK G

International Bowling Pro Shop and Instructors Association

IBPSIA Arlington TX USA N

International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers

1893 Kansas City KS USA G

International Bunker Industry Association

IBIA 1992 London UK C t

International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation

IBFD 1938 Amsterdam Netherlands C

International Business Alliance

Tbilisi Georgia N

International Business and Economic Development Center

IBEDC 2010 Tbilisi Georgia G

International Business and Management Education Centre

IBMEC Singapore Singapore G

International Business Aviation Council

IBAC 1981 Montréal QC Canada C y

International Business Brokers Association

IBBA 1982 Independence OH USA N

International Business Congress

IBC 1997 Berlin Germany F

International Business Ethics Institute

IBEI 1994 Washington DC USA N j

International Business Information Management Association

IBIMA N

International Business Law Consortium

IBLC 1996 Salzburg Austria F

International Businesses Standards Organization

IBSO Jerusalem Israel G

International Campaign for Responsible Technology

I-CRT 2002 San Jose CA USA G

International Card Manufacturers Association

ICMA 1990 Princeton Junction NJ USA G

International Catholic Stewardship Council

ICSC 1962 Dearborn Heights MI USA G

International Center for Banking and Corporate Governance

ICBCG 2010 Sumy Ukraine E v

International Centre for Conservation of Architectural Heritage

ICCARHE Ferrara Italy N

International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility

ICCSR 2002 Nottingham UK N

International Centre for Innovation and Industrial Logistics

ICIIL Vaasa Finland G ct

International Centre for Responsible Tourism

ICRT 2002 F

International Centre for Responsible Tourism-West Africa

ICRT-WA J

International Centre for Social Franchising

ICSF 2011 London UK G y

International Centre for Sturgeon Studies

ICSS Nanaimo BC Canada N

International Centre for Tax and Development

ICTD 2010 Brighton UK F

International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property

ICCROM 1958 Rome Italy F gy

International Chamber of Commerce

ICC 1919 Paris France B

International Chemical Secretariat

ChemSec 2002 Gothenburg Sweden G

International Chemical Trade Association

ICTA 1991 The Hague Netherlands E t

International Christian Union of Business Executives

1931 Paris France C

International Civil Aviation Organization

ICAO 1947 Montréal QC Canada B g

International Cleantech Network

ICN 2009 Copenhagen Denmark F

International Co-operative Alliance

ICA 1895 Brussels Belgium A y

International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect

ICRtoP 2009 New York NY USA E y

International Coalition of Library Consortia

ICOLC 1997 Atlanta GA USA F y

International Coffee Organization

ICO 1963 London UK B g

International Commission for Alpine Rescue

ICAR 1948 Zurich Switzerland D

International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas

ICCAT 1969 Madrid Spain E g

International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River

ICPDR 1998 Vienna Austria E gy

International Committee for Marine Conservation

ICMC 1997 Hochheim am Main Germany E

International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques for Speech Input-Output

COCOSDA 1991 Kyoto Japan J

International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics

ICCM 1977 Rome Italy D

International Committee for the Defence of the Breton Language

ICDBL 1975 E

International Committee for the Study of Bauxite, Alumina and Aluminium

ICSOBA 1963 Québec QC Canada E

International Committee of Analysis for Steel and Iron Industry

ICASI 1992 Beijing China C t

International Committee of the Decorative Laminates Industry

ICDLI Frankfurt-Main Germany E t

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