Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and
production patterns
Targets (cont)
•
•
•
•
•
Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national
policies and priorities
By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for
sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to
move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable
tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
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
Ref:
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustaina
ble-consumption-production/
Demo Version, http://www.verydoc.com and http://www.verypdf.com