North
American Sustainable
Consumption and Production Database
What is sustainable production
and consumption?
Projects
About NASCA
Website content & design
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and Consumption
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The North American Sustainable Consumption and Production Database is an initiative of the North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance, a strategic partnership of people and organizations who are working to promote more sustainable consumption patterns in Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Working together as partners in the Alliance, the following organizations have created and are supporting this innovative Internet resource.
Why a database on sustainable consumption and production on North America?
The NASCP Database aims at facilitating cooperation among organizations in Canada, United States and Mexico that are interested in promoting sustainable consumption and production. For the first time, Internet users can access a single website to find information about sustainable consumption and production initiatives and programmes throughout North America.
The Database is also intended as a resource for citizens to learn about projects or initiatives that they can support, join, or replicate in their own community.
The Database currently contains over 200 entries for initiatives and programmes that address a wide range of important issues such as Advertising & Marketing, Children & Youth, Cleaner Production, Consumer Products, Lifestyle Choices, Organic Products, Poverty, Procurement, Tourism, Trade, Transport, and Waste. The broad diversity of initiatives, projects, and programmes featured in the Database highlights the willingness in North America to move toward sustainable consumption and production patterns.
How can my project or initiative be included in the database?
If you have not yet registered your organization's sustainable consumption and production activities in the Database, there is still time!! You can submit your activity on our website by clicking the button below.
Frequently asked questions about sustainable consumption and production
- What is sustainable consumption?
"Sustainable consumption includes meeting the needs of present and future generations for goods and services in ways that are economically, socially and environmentally sustainable". (United Nations, 1995) - What is the link between sustainable consumption and production?
It is common to think of production and consumption as discrete stages in a product's life cycle chain, with production (an industrial activity) preceding consumption (a domestic activity). But production and consumption are inextricably interwoven. All production consumes resources and energy: to produce something requires that something must be consumed. - Where can I find more information about sustainable consumption
and production?
Visit our Regional SPAC resources page for more information on sustainable consumption and production.
The North American Sustainable
Consumption and Production
Database is hosted by:
Pollution Prevention
World Information Network
The North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance acknowledges the generous support of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America in the development of this web-based tool. The CEC aims to foster outreach and collaborative action in North America around sustainable consumption.
This database would not have been possible without the efforts
and contributions of the Canadian
Centre for Pollution Prevention, Environment
Canada, the University
of Massachusetts Lowell, Integrative
Strategies Forum, the University
of Sonora, and the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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