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IISD publishes brief on ensuring sustainable consumption and production

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Published on: 17 August 2021

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LNB News 17/08/2021

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Issue Date: 17 August 2021

Published Date: 17 August 2021

Jurisdiction(s): United Kingdom

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The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has published a brief on ensuring sustainable consumption and production, per the United Nation's 'Sustainable Development Goal 12'. IISD has stated that policymakers must change today's linear material flows, from extraction to use and disposals, and replace it with circular flows through intelligent design of products. The economic debate on value must be resolved in favour of socio-ecological regeneration to allow market and pricing mechanisms to be applied to biodiversity, forests, land can produce long-term shifts in consumption practices.

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