* GRF 2019 CONFERENCE *
Transforming Production and Consumption:
Bridging Sustainability Research with Policy and Practice
Wed 26 June - Sat 29 June 2019
Hosted by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Transforming Production and Consumption:
Bridging Sustainability Research with Policy and Practice
Wed 26 June - Sat 29 June 2019
Hosted by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Join us for an interactive and vibrant conference accelerating sustainable production and consumption with speakers including:
The conference is here! You can still register here and find out more about accommodation and logistics including daily bus shuttles from the hotels.
The final conference program can be found here.
Co-organizers: Asia-Europe Environment Forum, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), National Institute for Environmental Studies, SWITCH to Green Initiative, and the SWITCH-Asia Programme.
Contributing Partners: Future Earth Knowledge Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production, Institute of Development Studies, Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI), SCORAI China, SITRA (the Finnish Innovation Fund), and the World Resources Forum.
There is growing alarm and political tensions surrounding the ecological and social challenges reflected in the Paris Climate Agreement, IPCC report, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is a clear need to scale the translation of ‘know-how’ and solutions in order to transform systems of production and consumption towards sustainability.
Given this context, the fourth international conference of the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Production and Consumption (GRF) takes stock of sustainable production and consumption research, including cutting edge insights, and accelerates the engagement of researchers with knowledge users in business, policy and practice. The Hong Kong 2018 conference builds on many GRF regional meetings and workshops and the three previous international GRF conferences in Rio de Janeiro (2012), Shanghai (2014), and Brighton (2017).
The conference is organized to identify insights and linkages across the SPAC research themes and actively bridge research with policy and practice. The scope covers local and global issues and interconnections across scales, connecting regions, networks of practitioners and researchers.
The final conference program can be found here.
Co-organizers: Asia-Europe Environment Forum, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), National Institute for Environmental Studies, SWITCH to Green Initiative, and the SWITCH-Asia Programme.
Contributing Partners: Future Earth Knowledge Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production, Institute of Development Studies, Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI), SCORAI China, SITRA (the Finnish Innovation Fund), and the World Resources Forum.
There is growing alarm and political tensions surrounding the ecological and social challenges reflected in the Paris Climate Agreement, IPCC report, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is a clear need to scale the translation of ‘know-how’ and solutions in order to transform systems of production and consumption towards sustainability.
Given this context, the fourth international conference of the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Production and Consumption (GRF) takes stock of sustainable production and consumption research, including cutting edge insights, and accelerates the engagement of researchers with knowledge users in business, policy and practice. The Hong Kong 2018 conference builds on many GRF regional meetings and workshops and the three previous international GRF conferences in Rio de Janeiro (2012), Shanghai (2014), and Brighton (2017).
The conference is organized to identify insights and linkages across the SPAC research themes and actively bridge research with policy and practice. The scope covers local and global issues and interconnections across scales, connecting regions, networks of practitioners and researchers.
The Global Research Forum on Sustainable Production and Consumption (GRF) brings together individuals and organizations engaged in research and its applications on the transition towards sustainable production/consumption systems from various regions of the world. It builds on more than twenty years of research tradition on sustainable production and consumption by numerous researchers, institutes, and networks around the world, and on many successful attempts to apply research findings into policy, civil society, and business.
GRF ActivitiesGRF 3rd International Conference
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK 2017/06/27 - 29 GRF's 2017 conference, "Sustainable Lifestyles, Livelihoods and the Sustainable Economy", convened researchers, develop-ment practitioners, policy makers and representatives from business, government and civil society to explore critical links between the circular economy, sustainable lifestyles and livelihoods and the Sustainable Development Goals, examining the potential for, pathways to, and politics of advancing a global transition from the current linear “throw-away” model to sustainable production and consumption systems and practices in “circular economies.”
Mobilizing Research for Sustainable Lifestyles (MORE SL) launched! MORE SL is a project of the Research Consortium on Sustainable Lifestyles (RCSL), instituted in 2015 under the auspices of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP).
2015/11/20 - The Advancing Research and Education on Sustainable Lifestyles workshop in Vienna, Austria brought together key participants in MORE-SL in order to develop a coherent understanding of the role of sustainable lifestyle research and education within the transition to sustainable production and consumption systems and to develop strategies and working plans. |
SPaC in the News2018/07/09-18 - The United Nations High Level Political Forum (HLPF) met in New York with more than 125 high-level government representatives and more than 2,000 NGO representatives, including several GRF members.
2015/09/17 - The Huffington Post's recent piece on Sustainable Development Goals (What's Working SDG blog series) comments on new approaches to negotiating intergovernmental action on SPaC, and what it means for sustainable development as a whole.
2015/05/29 - The Guardian reports on a new study by Market Analysis, Brazil, which reveals the extent of greenwashing in the country's consumer market, with only 15% of green claims supported by third-party certifications.
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Upcoming EventsUnited Nations High Level Political Forum under the auspices of ECOSOC will meet in New York 9 - 18 July 2019.
United Nations High Level Political Forum under the auspices of the UN General Assembly will meet in New York 24 - 25 September 2019.
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