Sustainability

May 15 2012
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People and the planet: Royal Society Report

The Royal Society has published a new report arguing that the most developed and the emerging economies must stabilise consumption levels, then reduce them, to help the poorest 1.3 billion people to escape absolute poverty through increased...

March 25 2012
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Paper: critique of ‘green growth’

This discussion paper questions the idea that ‘greener’ economic growth can achieve the reductions in GHG emissions that are necessary – a point that was also powerfully made by Tim Jackson in his 2009  book...

February 29 2012
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Danish Environmental Protection Agency: Policies to promote SCP via the food retail sector


The Danish EPA has compiled guidance for policy-makers aiming to promote SCP in the food retailing sector. It states that  “Government has an important enabling role to play in using policy levers to support the development of a business...

January 24 2012
Paper on the effects of resource efficiency on GHG emissions

This paper looks at both production and consumption side resource efficiency measures focusing on a range of measures as summarised in this table:

Reference and abstract as follows:

Barrett J and Scott K (2012). Link between climate...

January 24 2012
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JRF report: Sustainable income standards: Towards a greener minimum?

This report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation asks whether changes towards ‘greener’ forms of consumption are compatible with preserving a minimum acceptable standard of living. Previous analysis of the Minimum Income Standard for the UK (...

January 24 2012
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JRF report: Climate change and sustainable consumption: what do the public think is fair?

This study was written by Tim Horton and Natan Doron and published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.  Through a series of focus groups, it explores ways that people's sense of fairness around sustainable consumption and climate change could be...

November 21 2011
Unilever launches Sustainable Living Plan

Unilever has published a Sustainable Living Plan, which sets out three overarching goals it wants to achieve by 2020.  These are to:

  • Halve the environmental footprint of its products
  • Help more than 1 billion people take...
October 17 2011
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Sustainable Food Cities Network launches across the UK

A UK-wide Sustainable Food Cities Network has been launched to help cities develop and promote healthy and sustainable food programmes. The programme is supported by the Soil Association alongside a number of other national NGOs including Co-...

October 17 2011
Food, Globalization and Sustainability, by Peter Oosterveer and David Sonnenfeld

Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices. This transition is generating unfamiliar challenges related to sustainability...

October 17 2011
Paper on sustainable food solutions

This paper argues that a fourfold approach to addressing food security and sustainability is needed.

Reference and abstract as follows:

Foley J A, Rarmankutty N, Brauman K A, Cassidy E S, Gerber J S, Johnstone M, Mueller N D, O’Connell C...