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, 0.11MB, 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, 0.11MB, 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 (Excel, 0.11MB, 1 Sheet)
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, 0.11MB, 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

National Waste Management Strategy

The Kingdom’s strategy consists of five main pillars, that are currently under review: the backfilling of waste by engineering methods, the recycling of demolition and construction waste, the recycling and converting waste into energy, the recycling of household and commercial waste and the recycling of green waste.

Plastic Waste Management

Ministerial Orders since 2019 have banned the import of non-biodegradable plastic bags, the manufacture, import or trade of plastic water bottles and cups below 200ml, and the import, manufacture, and distribution of single-use plastic bags with a thickness of less than 35 microns. The use of plastic bags is expected to be banned in a later phase.

Hazardous Waste Management

In 2020, a Ministerial Order, prepared in cooperation with the World Health Organization, related to the management of hazardous medical waste was issued, addressing the management of hazardous medical waste from production until disposal. It includes strict conditions for proper segregation, sorting and storage of medical waste. The Government conducts annual inspections to all the healthcare facilities to ensure their compliance to the legislation.

E-Waste Management

In 2021 legislation related to the management of E-Waste was issued to regulate the process of managing electronic waste in a sound, safe and sustainable manner to protect public health and the environment.

Goal Twelve:Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Indicators

Policies & initiatives support the goal

Stakeholders

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