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SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
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Explore the latest strategic trends, research and analysis
The World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community, a network of young people who volunteer their time and experiences to drive dialogue, action and change celebrates its 10 Year Anniver...
81% of global crop production is performed on small farms. The pressure on small farms worldwide to produce food, fuel, and animal feed has increased.
Although significant improvements in social sustainability are expected soon, more can be done to improve transparency, monitoring and accountability.
Four key areas addressed last week at the United Nations General Assembly in New York will be crucial to for a substantive climate agreement at COP26 in just six weeks.
Recycling plastic is not enough beat the global waste crisis - we need more new ways to make food packaging, including using more compostable materials.
Solving the plastic pollution issue will require systemic change. Financing these solutions will require a collective, public-private approach.
As part of the Sustainable Development Impact Summit, we asked four executives prioritizing the circular economy about lessons learned from the transition.
Both corporations and consumers need to drive more responsible consumption. New research from JD.com and Kearney provides a simple framework for doing it.
During the pandemic, business worked towards more sustainable, inclusive business models. Now, we need to apply the lessons learned to the climate crisis.
This World Economic Forum report provides an alternative plastic waste-reduction model and presents the Reuse Viability Framework, a tool to help decision-makers address key questions abo...
Renting clothes leads to the highest carbon emissions. Researchers have discovered that out of five options, including discarding and recycling, renting clothes is the worst.
The ability to repair phones will be key to conserving resources, tackling e-waste and climate mitigation, and building a circular economy for electronics.
On the latest Meet the Leader, P&G's Europe president Loic Tassel explains how planet-friendly products are developed in Europe and how the market serves as a "lighthouse" for regulat...
Replacing one of concrete’s main ingredients with volcanic rock could cut carbon emissions by nearly two-thirds, a new study says.