[Itenv] 23rd-25th Nov: Major Sustainable Consumption and Production Conference

[martin charter]

EXCUSE ANY CROSS-POSTINGS

Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP): Opportunities and Challenges 
23rd-25th November 2006
Wuppertal
Germany

The official launch of EC funded SCORE project (www.score-network.org)

Supported by:
EC
UNEP
UNEP-Wuppertal Institute Collaborative Centre on Sustainable Consumption
and Production (CSCP)

Organised by: The Centre for Sustainable Design and TNO

Registration (free of charge): www.score-network.org, click on 'register'
in conference section
Deadline for registration:       09.00 GMT  on 17th November

Background
SCORE! (Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges) is an EU-funded network
project that supports the development of the 10 Year Framework of
Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). The mission of
SCORE is to organise a leading science network that provides input to this
framework. SCORE runs between 2005 and 2008, consists of 28 institutions,
and will involve and structure a larger community of a few hundred
professionals in the EU and beyond.

The development of the ten-year framework is led by UNEP and UN DESA
through the Marrakech process. Marrakech Taskforces - initiated by national
governments with participation from all regions in the world  - have been
established to develop and test policies on Sustainable Procurement,
Sustainable Product Policy, Sustainable Tourism, Sustainable Building and
Construction, Education for SCP, SCP cooperation with Africa and
Sustainable Lifestyles.

Conference concept
The conference will:
*  Mark the official launch of the SCORE Network
*  Provide an opportunity for input of case studies on mobility, food, and
housing for the next, practical phase of SCORE
*  Build a broad platform for presenting work of science and scientists
that may be of direct relevance for the activities of the 10 Year Framework
Task Forces

The conference is organised back to back with a dedicated UNEP/CSCP
invite-only event (November 22/23) where policy makers and other
stakeholders directly involved in the 10 Year Framework discuss key
questions they face in moving the SCP agenda forward and which scientific
support this would require.

Invited speakers
A number of leading-edge speakers will present at 'Sustainable Consumption
and Production (SCP): Opportunities and Challenges' 
* Professor Dennis Meadows, President, Laboratory for Interactive Learning,
US
* Nic Marks, Director, New Economics Foundation , UK
* Dr Kerry  Mashford,  Head of Sustainable Manufacturing and Construction,
Arup, UK
* Bas de Leeuw, Head, Sustainable Consumption and Production, UNEP, France
* Michael Kuhndt, Head, CSCP, Germany

Conference topics
Over eighty conceptual and research-based papers and over twenty posters
covering SCP in the context of a range of issues will be presented:
* Consumers, behaviour and lifestyles
* Products, services and product-services-systems (PSS)
* Procurement and supply chains
* Developing country perspectives
* Education
* Tourism and travel
* Construction and buildings
* Mobility
* Agro-food
* Energy and electronics

Benefits 
Benefits to delegates atteending 'Sustainable Consumption and Production
(SCP): Opportunities and Challenges' will include:
* 'State of the Art': over 220 delegates have already registered
* Unique: forum for new ideas and concepts
* Leading-edge: presentations from key international researchers,
practioners and policy-makers
* Research: access to new results and thinking
* Networking: opportunities to meet business, government and academia

Contact
For more information, please contact:

Arnold Tukker
Project Director: SCORE
TNO
Netherlands
Tel:  +31 15 2695450; Fax: 31 15 276 30 24;
Email: arnold.tukker at tno.nl
Website: www.score-network.org

Martin Charter
Director
The Centre for Sustainable Design
University College for the Creative Arts
UK
Tel:  + 44 (0) 1252 892772
Fax: + 44 (0) 1252 892747
Email: mcharter at ucreative.ac.uk
Website: www.cfsd.org.uk