This year’s theme focuses on
Solutions for a more equitable and sustainable society
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The One Planet network is a global community of practitioners, policymakers and experts, including governments, businesses, civil society, academia and international organisations, that implements the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production and works towards achieving SDG 12: ensuring sustainable patterns of consumption and production.
It is comprised of thousands of individual members; six thematic programmes and their partner organisations; numerous working groups; and over 140 national focal points for sustainable consumption and production within country governments. Serving as the secretariat of the 10YFP, the United Nations Environment Programme facilitates the One Planet network.
Collectively, the One Planet network holds enormous experience and expertise on sustainable consumption and production, and houses a global repository of projects, policies, tools and resources.
The One Planet network inspires a global movement for sustainable consumption and production, facilitating collaboration, cooperation and coordination to increase our combined knowledge, effectiveness and impact.
The 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP) is a global commitment made by the 193 United Nations Member States to accelerate the shift to sustainable consumption and production in both the developing and developed world.
It is the product of decades of multilateral cooperation on sustainable development and reflects a broad, global consensus on the need to fundamentally change the way we produce and consume in order to achieve social and economic development within planetary boundaries.
Today, unsustainable patterns of consumption and production are the root causes of the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution that the world is facing, threatening the prosperity and peace of present and future generations.
Systemic and structural changes in the way societies produce and consume are imperative for overcoming these crises and achieving global sustainable development; and international collaboration and coordination is crucial if we are to achieve such change.
The 10YFP is the only universal multilateral cooperation framework adopted by the UN to support this shift to sustainable consumption and production, and is founded on the understanding that this requires cooperation amongst diverse actors from all countries, regions and sectors of society.
Implementing the Global Commitment
Since 2012, the intergovernmental mandate provided by the 10YFP has strengthened multi-stakeholder cooperation on sustainable consumption and production at international and national levels, and embedded the sustainable consumption and production agenda within relevant global and domestic institutions.
The framework anchors the sustainable consumption and production agenda within the United Nations system and engages all countries; developed and developing. One-hundred-and-forty Member States have nominated 10YFP National Focal Points to connect international cooperation with national action for sustainable consumption and production.
The One Planet network implements the 10YFP by catalysing multi-stakeholder cooperation amongst all sectors and actors, facilitating collaboration between governments, civil society and the private sector on sustainable consumption and production in order to achieve scale and increase impact.
The 10YFP and its One Planet network provide the foundations for extending, broadening and strengthening the action of the international community on sustainable consumption and production in a transformational way.
The OPN Forum will be held under the overarching theme of ‘Reducing inequalities and achieving just transitions for all through sustainable consumption and production, including circular economy’.
This two-day event promises to be an immersive experience on concrete solutions for reducing inequalities and fostering just transitions for all through sustainable consumption and production, with a spotlight on the transformative power of the circular economy.
Regional Consultation on the Global Circularity Protocol for Business
11 September 2024, Eletrobras Premises Quitanda Street, 196, 2nd floor, Rio de Janeiro, 1400-1710hrs
The Global Circularity Protocol for Business (GCP) is a business-led initiative spearheaded by the WBCSD in collaboration with the One Planet Network Secretariat (OPN) which presents a comprehensive framework to accelerate the transition towards a circular economy. It is a voluntary framework that aims to address key accountability and policy gaps currently impeding the scaling of circularity globally.
