Target 16
Enable Sustainable Consumption Choices To Reduce Waste and Overconsumption
Ensure that people are encouraged and enabled to make sustainable consumption choices including by establishing supportive policy, legislative or regulatory frameworks, improving education and access to relevant and accurate information and alternatives, and by 2030, reduce the global footprint of consumption in an equitable manner, including through halving global food waste, significantly reducing overconsumption and substantially reducing waste generation, in order for all people to live well in harmony with Mother Earth.
Ensure that people are encouraged and enabled to make sustainable consumption choices including by establishing supportive policy, legislative or regulatory frameworks, improving education and access to relevant and accurate information and alternatives, and by 2030, reduce the global footprint of consumption in an equitable manner, including through halving global food waste, significantly reducing overconsumption and substantially reducing waste generation, in order for all people to live well in harmony with Mother Earth.
Rationale
GSAP
Measures are needed to address patterns of overconsumption through increasing efficiency, limiting waste, and reducing overall demand – especially in developed countries – to limit their negative impacts on wild species.
Actions
16.1. Minimize impacts of food production on species by reducing consumption of animal protein, and eliminating food waste.
16.1. Minimize impacts of food production on species by reducing consumption of animal protein, and eliminating food waste.
16.2. Increase use of eco-labelling to help consumers make informed and sustainable choices.
16.2. Increase use of eco-labelling to help consumers make informed and sustainable choices.
16.3. Support use of local produce.
16.3. Support use of local produce.