Kingdom of Bahrain Portal for Sustainable Development Goals

Goal Twelve:Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Sustainable consumption and production is about promoting resource and energy efficiency, sustainable infrastructure, and providing access to basic services, green and decent jobs and a better quality of life for all. Its implementation helps to achieve overall development plans, reduce future economic, environmental and social costs, strengthen economic competitiveness and reduce poverty. Sustainable consumption and production aims at “doing more and better with less,” increasing net welfare gains from economic activities by reducing resource use, degradation and pollution along the whole lifecycle, while increasing quality of life. It involves different stakeholders, including business, consumers, policy makers, researchers, scientists, retailers, media, and development cooperation agencies, among others.

Overview of some indicators

Basel Convention: submission of the annual national reports

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Stockholm Convention: Submission of the national implementation plans

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Rotterdam Convention: Submission of the import responses

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Indicators

Target 12.1: Implement the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
- Indicator 12.1.1: Number of countries with sustainable consumption and production (SCP) national action plans or SCP mainstreamed as a priority or a target into national policies (Excel, 0.01MB, 1 Sheet)
Target 12.2: By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
- Indicator 12.2.1: Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP
- Indicator 12.2.2: Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP
Target 12.3: By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post- harvest losses
- Indicator 12.3.1: Global food loss index
Target 12.4: By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
- Indicator 12.4.1: Number of parties to international multilateral environmental agreements on hazardous waste, and other chemicals that meet their commitments and obligations in transmitting information as required by each relevant agreement (Excel, 0.02MB, 1 Sheet)
- Indicator 12.4.2: Hazardous waste generated per capita and proportion of hazardous waste treated, by type of treatment (Excel, 0.02MB, 1 Sheet)
Target 12.5: By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
- Indicator 12.5.1: National recycling rate, tons of material recycled
Target 12.6: Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
- Indicator 12.6.1: Number of companies publishing sustainability reports
Target 12.7: Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities
- Indicator 12.7.1: Number of countries implementing sustainable public procurement policies and action plans
Target 12.8: By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
- Indicator 12.8.1: Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development (including climate change education) are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment (Excel, 0.02MB, 1 Sheet)
Target 12.a: Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
- Indicator 12.a.1: Amount of support to developing countries on research and development for sustainable consumption and production and environmentally sound technologies
Target 12.b: Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
- Indicator 12.b.1: Number of sustainable tourism strategies or policies and implemented action plans with agreed monitoring and evaluation tools (Excel, 0.01MB, 1 Sheet)
Target 12.c: Rationalize inefficient fossil- fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities
- Indicator 12.c.1: Amount of fossil-fuel subsidies per unit of GDP (production and consumption) and as a proportion of total national expenditure on fossil fuels

Policies & initiatives support the goal

The World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 encouraged and promoted the development of a 10-year framework of programs to accelerate the shift towards sustainable consumption and production to promote social and economic development. Ten years later, the Rio +20 Conference reaffirmed that Sustainable Consumption and Production was a corner stone of sustainable development. The summit then approved the 10-year framework of programs on sustainable consumption and production patterns (10 YFP) in both developed and developing countries.
Although the 10 YFP seeks to enhance sustainable consumption and production patterns in both developed and developing countries, it supports capacity building, and facilitates access to technical and financial assistance for developing countries for this shift. The framework also encourages innovation and cooperation among all stakeholders.

The ten-year framework for sustainable consumption and production contains many programs of priority for the Arab countries. Those programs require intensive work in order to turn them into projects and action plans aimed at achieving the goals of the framework and following up on the implementation of the sustainable development initiative in the Arab region and the resolutions of the World Summit on Sustainable Development Conference.

It has been agreed that the priorities of the Arab world within the ten-year framework program are based on the following topics:

Sustainable buildings and installations
Sustainable government procurement
Sustainable Tourism

The Kingdom of Bahrain has succeeded in integrating these priorities with in its national programs, as the Economic Vision for Bahrain, 2030 adopted the principles of sustainability, competitiveness and fairness. Also, the successive directives of the Cabinet and government departments to implement Vision have confirmed the need to focus on achieving sustainability in production and rationalizing consumption in all sectors of the state and its programs.
In this context, the Supreme Council for the Environment (SCE) has put a practical road map on how to apply the framework programs and take advantage of the opportunities offered in the 10 YFP. The SCE is currently working with the relevant sides in the kingdom to launch the first project of the framework.

Goal Twelve:Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

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Policies & initiatives support the goal

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