The winter school obejective is to improve the knowledge of future decision makers in the area of Sustainable Consumption and Production and thus contribute to the design and implementation of policies, business models and practices that can promote sustainable resource management in a life cycle perspective for goods and services produced and used by governments, business and civil society.
Specific Objectives:
- To provide credible knowledge on SCP to post-graduate students and equip them with skillsthat can support their research and professional activities.
- To increase the understanding of the need for - and challenges to - implementation of SCP indifferent sectors and thereby enable participants to effectively engage with and contribute tomainstreaming and upscaling of Sustainable Consumption and Production through their dailymanagement practices.
- Enhance the capacity level of junior governmental professionals from developing countries towork with projects that promote SCP.
- Assist future decision-makers from developing countries and countries with economies intransition to respond better in the growing needs to mainstream SCP by raising theirknowledge in this field.
- Create networks of junior professionals from developing and industrialised countries and thus promoting North-South and South-South cooperation mechanisms in the field of SCP.
Learning Benefits :
After the completion of the course participants will be able to:
1. Clearly understand what SCP and resource efficiency is and how they contribute to sustainable development, poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods (and the relative contributions by different socio-economic sectors, geo-political countries, etc.)
2. Know how to use alternative policy instruments, strategy options and institutional arrangements(including networks) for achieving resource efficiency and its subsequent development, climate and environmental conservation outcomes (e.g. regulatory, market based, information, etc instruments in environment, industry, technology, education, training and other policy domains).
3. Developing analytical, advocacy and implementation capabilities and skills, in particular through practical piloting of selected resource efficiency methods, techniques and policy instruments, as appropriate to the backgrounds and interests of participants
4. Have a better understanding and appreciation of the different perspectives and interests of various stakeholders as these are affected by, and could potentially contribute to, resource efficiency and its development, climate and environmental benefits.
