Sustainable consumption and production
Actions by Stakeholders include voluntary initiatives such as policies, plans, programmes, projects, actions and partnerships that advance sustainable development and the implementation of Rio+20 (the Future We Want), Agenda 21, Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI), and outcomes of other sustainable development conferences. These include Rio+20 Voluntary Commitments, Partnerships for Sustainable Development (CSD11/WSSD), Green Economy policies, and other initiatives emanating from action networks such as Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All), Every Woman Every Child, Higher Education Sustainability initiative, Sustainable Transport, Sustainable Cities, UN Global Compact, etc.
Achieving more with less
Henkel AG
To successfully implement our strategy and drive sustainability in our business process, we have defined three strategic principles - products, partners, and people. Our products d...
Awareness raising and training on sustainable consumption and production
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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BioTrade Facilitation Programme for Biodiversity Products and Services (BTFP)
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
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Cement Sustainability Initiative, The
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
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CGIAR Challenge Program: 'Water and Food'
International Water Management Institute
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CO2 reduction in steelmaking
ArcelorMittal
Process improvements to increase energy efficiency, please see our 2011 Corporate Responsibility report at:

Cut Energy
NIKE, Inc
This target will be achieved by doing the following: -Increase contracted manufacturer participation in Nike's energy and carbon continuous improvement program -Expand use of renew...
Elaboration and implementation of Secondary Raw Materials Policy of the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Preparation and implementation of a Secondary Raw Materials Policy.
Creation and implementation of an Action Plan that will set specific goals for execution of the Secondary Ra...
Global voluntary corporate goals
BASF SE
This project wants to achieve these goals by continuing optimization of the facilities and by investing in new plants. With the Verbund concept BASF closely interlink BASF producti...
Increasing take back volume
Dell Inc
Supporting resources will be devoted in order to help achieve the targeted goals, for which please kindly refer to the website or the following deliverables.

International Partnership for Sustainable Resource Management
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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Liugong Remanufacture Production Base
Guangxi Liugong Machinery Co., Ltd.
For the first installment, Liugong has built a remanufacture production base for 6300 square meter. The remanufacture business focuses on developing transmission and hydramatic key...
Marrakech Process Task Force on Cooperation with Africa
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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One Planet Living - a commitment to deliver China's most advanced sustainable building centres of excellence
BioRegional Development Group
We will build 5 platforms to facilitate the realisation of these commitments:

· A platform for showcasing Green Products
· A platform for demonstratin...
One Planet Living - a commitment to deliver energy and ecological improvements across range of refrigeration products
BioRegional Development Group
1) Reduce energy consumption across full range of refrigeration and cooling products by 20% by 2015 (using a baseline from 2010)
2) Use ecological refrigerant gases in 50% of u...
One Planet Living - a commitment to deliver, with partners, a decentralised energy network in the Hackbridge Sustainable Suburb with a pilot by 2015 and a full network by 2020.
BioRegional Development Group
London Borough of Sutton, the first to pledge to become a One Planet Borough in 2008 including zero carbon buildings by 2025 commits with its partners to deliver a decentralised e...
One Planet Living a framework to deliver an aspirational lifestyle for nine billion people within the carrying capacity of the planet.
BioRegional Development Group
Commitment 1. We commit to work with five countries and stakeholders to pilot the one planet living approaches at a national level to draw out lessons for the proposed Sustainable ...
P&G 2020 Sustainability Goals - Operations
Procter & Gamble
One critical way we are executing this strategy is to reach and serve five billion people with our products and services by the midpoint of this decade, up from less than four bill...
Partnership for the Launch of the Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council
Rainforest Alliance
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Powering the Possible for the Environment
Dell Inc
Please kindly refer to the following deliverables.


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Promote Tourism Towards Sustainable Development
Indonesia
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Promotion of Green Productivity for Sustainable Development
Asian Productivity Organization (APO)
The Asian Productivity Organization (APO) was established on 11 May 1961 as a regional intergovernmental organization, to contribute to the sustainable socioeconomic development of...
Protecting Ecosystems and Brand Integrity: Scaling up Patagonia’s Commitment to the bluesign® Standard
Patagonia
The bluesign® Standard sets “best practices” for the use of chemicals and resources – including water and energy – in the textile industry. Textile manufacturers who are bluesign® ...
Reduction of 30% in energy consumption in networks per equivalent access by 2015
Telefonica
To reduce the carbon footprint in line with its strategy to maximize revenue, reduce operational costs and provide services at attractive prices, Telefónica assesses, defines and i...
Reject Toxics
NIKE, Inc
This target will be achieved by doing the following approaches,:

-Establish industry-wide management coalition

-Expand chemicals management and awareness trainin...
SKF launches aggressive new climate strategy and partners with WWF to reduce greenhouse gas emission
SKF AB
SKF has had a long history of working on enviromental issues in general and climate change in particular, but with this new strategy (acknowledged by WWF) the Group has raised the ...
Slash Water Use
NIKE, Inc
This target will be achived by doing the following:

-Increase participation in Nike Water Program across NIKE, Inc. brands

-Drive industry change through expanded...
Sustainable business commitments
ABB Asea Brown Boveri Limited
More about these key focus areas, and progress to date can be seen in the ABB Sustainability Report:

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Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
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Towards 100% sustainable materials
Bridgestone Corporation
In order to realize a sustainable society, all players in the automotive industry must make efforts to reduce the volume of CO2 emitted by automobiles. The Bridgestone Group is pro...
Unilever Sustainable Living Plan: enhancing livelihoods
Unilever
Unilever’s future success depends upon being able to decouple our growth from our environmental footprint, while at the same time increasing our positive social impacts. Meeting th...
Unilever Sustainable Living Plan: reducing environmental impact
Unilever
We have developed a metric which measures the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the whole lifecycle of a product on a ‘per consumer use’ basis, e.g. the GHG impact of making...
VinylPlus
Vinyl 2010 Partnership
In line with the Agenda 21 chapter 30 Strengthening the role of business and industry, the VinylPlus Voluntary Commitment has been developed bottom up with an open process of stake...
Water & Nature Initiative
Water and Nature Initiative
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Youth dialogue on consumption, lifestyles and sustainability
Youth dialogue on consumption, lifestyles and sustainability
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