CUTS C-SPAC’ Initiative on Agenda 21 Commitments

COMMITMENT

ACTIVITY 

OUTCOME

CONSTRAINT

FUTURE WORK

Promote
patterns of consumption and production that reduce environmental stress
and meet peoples’ basic needs

Networking,
awareness generation and outreach on the use of environment-friendly
technologies through workshops, use of media etc among the consumer
groups etc

Takes
stock of the use of environment-friendly refrigerators in India and
evolved a strategy to promote them among consumers

Low
consumer awareness on the use of environment-friendly technologies and
hence industries are under less pressure to adopt them

Generate
consumer awareness on the use of environment-friendly technologies

Promoting
the adoption and use of environment-friendly technologies by industries
through awareness generation and advocacy

Introduces
the concept of the use of environment-friendly technologies through
ecolabelling in the entire lead-acid battery industry

Little
initiative and indifferent attitudes 
among industries towards adopting 
environment-friendly technologies

Advocate
with industry representatives on the adoption and use of
environment-friendly technologies

Generating
awareness among the parliamentarians on environment-friendly
technologies so they may in turn provide the political push at the
appropriate levels

Forms
a caucus of  parliamentarians
for formulating policies and providing political push for the adoption
of environment-friendly technologies by industries

Low
level of awareness among parliamentarians on environmental issues and
hence little political push for adopting 
environment-friendly  technologies

Awareness
generation among parliamentarians on environment-friendly technologies
for providing necessary political push for their adoption

Develop
a better understanding of the role of consumption and how to bring about
more sustainable consumption patterns

Researching
‘green’ consumption in India to test the degree of awareness among
consumers and producers about ‘green’ products and consumers’
willingness to pay

Compiles
a survey report on ‘green’ consumption in India and currently in the
process of researching why ecolabelling has failed in India

Issues
relating to ‘green’ consumption and implementation problems of
ecolabelling scheme need to be studied in detail

Planning
to do in-depth studies on ‘green’ consumption and implementation
failure vis-à-vis ecolabelling scheme of India

Operationalisation
of the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection to Guidelines
for Sustainable Consumption

Prepares
a toolkit for better implementation of the UN Guidelines, including
those on sustainable consumption

Implementation
problems vis-à-vis the Guidelines, with little awareness on guidelines
for sustainable consumption

To
implement a scoping project for better implementation of the Guidelines,
including those on sustainable consumption

Promote
efficiency in production processes and reduce wasteful consumption in
the process of economic growth, taking into account the development
needs of developing countries

Awareness generation on cost-effective and environment-friendly
production processes among industries

Conducts a number of workshops for promoting efficiency among
industries, especially small ones, through cost-effective production
processes and better use of resources

There is not much industry initiative to promote cost-effective and
environment-friendly production processes, especially among the small
industries

Awareness generation on the adoption of low-cost, environment-friendly
production processes

Awareness generation on emerging consumption patterns, which could be 
unsustainable in the long-run

Produces a number of papers on consumption patterns and how mis-leading
advertisements help promote unsustainability

There is not much consumer awareness on the ill-effects of
advertisements

Networking among consumer groups and consumer outreach on mis-leading
advertisements and there effects on consumption patterns

Develop a domestic policy framework that will
encourage a shift to more sustainable patterns of production and
consumption

Advocacy and
networking, including public education for the adoption of domestic
policies for sustainable production and consumption

Conducts a
number of consultation workshops and roundtables for creating a domestic
policy framework for sustainable production and consumption

Lack of
political will to create and adopt such a framework

Creation of a
domestic framework through dialogues among stakeholders and then
advocacy for its adoption and monitoring implementation

To reinforce both values that encourage sustainable
production and consumption patterns and policies that encourage the
transfer of environmentally sound  technologies
to developing countries

Promoting
local and national level planning for better environmental governance so
that citizens become aware of sustainable production and consumption
patterns and play an active role in achieving them

Co-ordinates
local and  national
programmes that promote sustainable production and consumption

Little
awareness among consumers about their rights and responsibilities
towards promoting sustainable production and consumption patterns

Awareness
generation and co-ordination among consumer organisations for taking
active part in environmental governance and achieving their right to
healthy environment

Advocating for
the transfer of environmentally sound technologies to developing
countries

Organises
advocacy tours and dialogues at national and international
levels

Better
co-ordination of advocacy efforts are needed

Adopt
strategies for focussed and co-ordinated advocacy efforts with concerned
agencies at national and international levels