Changing perceptions on consumption and production in the Mediterranean Region

From the 1st to the 3rd of June took place in Budva (Montenegro) a regional workshop within the framework of the Horizon 2020 capacity building programme.  The seminar was focused in the shift toward Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP).

Overall, the workshop succeeded in linking together all the interdisciplinary components of the subject at hand. It emphasized on Education for Sustainable Consumption (ESC), which is an important integral part of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and on raising public awareness, as strategies on SCP usually lack these necessary elements. Along the same lines, the group acknowledged that despite their extensive experience on sustainable consumption and production, they actually lacked at least part of the presented necessary tools, i.e. methodologies, to get the message through and raise institutional and public awareness, monitor and evaluate the results, etc.

The workshop successfully drew together a group of 34 individuals ranging from policy decision makers and opinion leaders to representatives from Ministries of environment, education, etc., academia and civil society. The trainees came from 12 countries including Albania, Algeria, Croatia, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Montenegro, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Serbia, Tunisia and Turkey.

The workshop was jointly organized by the Regional Activity Centre for Cleaner Production of the Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP CP/RAC), the Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO-ECSDE) and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) with the support of the Government of Montenegro.

More information: www.h2020.net

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