A short history behind the “10-year framework”

Jeffrey Barber, Integrative Strategies Forumand Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED)“3rd International Experts Meeting on the 10-Year Framework”

26 June 2007, Stockholm, Sweden

Setting the contextSetting the context

Déjà vu – Fr. “already seen”

The experience that one has witnessed or experienced a new

situation previously. Amnesia1 : loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness.2 : a gap in one's memory.3 : the selective overlooking or ignoring of events or acts that are not favorable or useful to one's purpose or position.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

-George Santayana

Timeline: 1972-2022

“Long-term environmental strategiesfor achieving sustainable development

to the year 2000 and beyond”

– Brundtland Report

Agenda 21:Programme of Action for the 21st Century

Growing public concern about energy crisis, oil spills, toxic disasters, cancer rates, nuclear meltdown…

“A matter of grave concern…”

The major cause of the continued deterioration

of the global environmentis the unsustainable

pattern of consumption and production,

particularly in industrialized countries …

a matter of grave concern.

- Agenda 21, Chapter 4 (1992)

“To achieve sustainable development and a higher

quality of life for all people, States should reduce and eliminate

unsustainable patterns of production and

consumption…”

Rio Principle 8

In Agenda 21, Ch. 4, one type of “framework” is a key objective:

Develop a domestic policy framework

that will encourage a shift to more sustainable patterns of production and consumption.

[4.17b]

Agenda 21, Chapter 4 objectives

1. Reduce stress and meet needs.2. Develop a better understanding of

consumption.3. Promote efficiency and reduce waste.4. Develop a domestic policy framework

that will encourage a shift.5. Reinforce values and policies.

International meetings on consumption

1994 - Soria Moria Symposium (Oslo)

1995 - Oslo Ministerial Roundtable

1995 - Clarifying the concepts workshop (Rosendal)

1996 - Workshop on patterns & policies (Brasilia)

1998 - Workshop on indicators for sustainable production & consumption (New York)

1998 - Consumption in a sustainable world (Kabelvag)

CSD NGO SPAC CaucusImportant tool for NGOs

attending CSD to organize and advocate common SPAC priorities:

• Beyond efficiency to sufficiency• Under- and over-consumption• Targets and timetables.• National SPAC policy frameworks.• Policy guidelines on SPAC.• Corporate responsibility and

accountability.

Message to governments:Implement Agenda 21!

• Review progress towards SPAC• Develop national SPAC policy

frameworks.• Right to know & access to

justice.• Eliminate destructive subsidies.• Promote Producer Take-Back

programs.• Re-define the topic: Adopt new

concepts & measures of wealth & prosperity.

- SPAC Caucus at CSD-7 (1999)

Soesterberg 1999: “From Consumer Society to Sustainable

Society”

NGO preparatory conference for the CSD’s 7th session focusing on

production and consumption.

A new international partnership initiativeto engage civil society to review progress towards sustainable production and consumption…

International work program

1. Policy implications of projected trends.

2. Impact on developing countries.3. Effectiveness of policy measures.4. Time-bound commitments from

countries.5. Revision of UN Consumer

Guidelines. CSD-7 (1999)

Timeline: 1972-2022

Agenda 21:Programme of Action for the 21st Century

“Implementation crisis”

10-Year Review of Progress on the Implementation of Agenda

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2002: World Summit onSustainable Development

Report of Secretary-General:

“No major changes have occurred since UNCED in the unsustainable patterns of consumption and production which are putting the natural life support systems at peril.”- Report of the Secretary-General,

“Implementing Agenda 21” (2002)

2001-02, SPAC Watch roundtables organized in Bali, New York,

Johannesburg, helping explore and promote idea of 10-year

work program on SPAC.

SPAC Watch report, Waiting for Delivery, presented at WSSD.

What is the “10-Year Framework?”

Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, Para. 15:

“Encourage and promote the development of a 10-year framework of programmes in support of regional and national initiatives to accelerate the shift towards sustainable consumption and production…

(Now that it was no longer a 10 year program of work!)

Government procurementSubsidy reform Eco-taxes/shiftingInvestment guidelinesSocially Responsible InvestmentFinancial institutions reforms

Integrated Product Policy/Life Cycle AnalysisHealth & safety standardsClean productionIndustrial ecologyExtended Producer ResponsibilityPrecautionary PrinciplePolluter pays

Sustainability Assessment:Analysis of impacts of current

practicesAnalysis of effectiveness of policies

Identification of obstacles Strategies for overcoming obstacles

Advertising reformEco-labeling

PackagingPricing

TransportationTrade

Analysis of behavior & trends;Consumer information

Right-to-KnowEducation for sustainability

Needs analysis;Impacts of consumption

practicesValues, norms & behavior

A framework of programs and policy tools

What is the Framework of Programmes?

1. What kind of support do regional and national initiatives need from the UN?

2. What kind of programs are needed to provide this support?

Programs to supportregional & national initiatives

Timeline: 1972-2022

Agenda 21:Programme of Action for the 21st Century

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Worsening so

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trends

MarrakechProcess

What is the “Marrakech Process?”

• “A basic step towards the development of a 10-year framework of programmes…” - (1st Expert Mtg Rpt, 2003)

• “Initiated as an implementation of JPOI by UNEP and UNDESA at the international level to coordinate activities in support of regional and national initiatives for the 10-year framework of programmes.” - (Category 1 paper, prepared by Sweden/UNEP, January 2007)

Timeline: 1972-2022

MarrakechProcess

Reverse the trends!

If the trendsare not

reversed…we lose.

SPAC Watch 20101. A civil society review of progress

towards sustainable production and consumption

2. Regional civil society perspectives.

3. Consideration of action vs. worsening trends in 2002-2012.

4. Progress implementing Agenda 21 objectives: 1992-2010

5. Analysis of obstacles blocking progress.

6. Consequence of inaction.

7. Recommendations for next 10 year period

Some next steps1. Develop NGO strategy for

influencing CSD in 2010-11.2. Build not only our capacity

as an individual organization but as part of an international NGO SPAC community.

3. Build and strengthen national, regional and global networks & communication on SPAC.

4. Discuss and agree on strategic goals – immediate and long-term

5. Do not allow ourselves to be isolated and competitive with each other.

6. Join online discussion forum http://sdissues.net/cs/forums/

7. Participate in SPAC Watch 2010 review project.

8. Help us build ICSPAC as a tool for NGO cooperation and collaboration.

9. Share news and information about your activities and region on www.icspac.net

Timeline: 1972-2022

“Long-term environmental strategiesfor achieving sustainable development

to the year 2000 and beyond”

– Brundtland Report

Agenda 21:Programme of Action for the 21st Century Marrakech

Process

?

“Implementation crisis”

10-Year Review of Progress on the Implementation of Agenda

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