From Production to Consumption - Legal and Policy Challenges for a New Approach to Climate Change
30 May 2008
Sustainable consumption has become not just an option, but an imperative for a successful climate strategy. Production focused policies are not enough and they must be complemented by approaches that take into account the role of consumption in climate change. A consumption based approach implies a move towards allocating national responsibility for emissions and emissions reduction based on the supply chains of goods consumed within a country, rather than the emissions occurring within that country’s own borders. This workshop will explore possible legal and policy challenges moving towards consumption as the basis for responsibility for emissions and their reduction.
Three main issues will be debated:
- Sustainable Consumption, Policy and Regulation
- Sustainable Consumption and Trade Law
- Sustainable Consumption and Emissions Trading
The workshop is organised by the Surrey European Law Unit (www.surrey.ac.uk/selu), the Environmental Regulatory Research Group (www.surrey.ac.uk/errg) and the Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES), including some CES members of the RESOLVE consortium(www.surrey.ac.uk/ces)