Sustainable Consumption Initiative

The World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Consumption Initiative has been running since 2008 and brings together a cross industry group of companies and a network of experts in the field.

The initiative aims to develop practical ideas and new forms of collaboration to place sustainability at the heart of business models. This requires collaboration across industries at all stages of the value chain.

The outputs of the second phase of the work have been launched at the Annual Meeting 2010 in a report entitled: Redesigning Business Value: A Roadmap for Sustainable Consumption.

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The sustainable consumption initiative aims to develop practical ideas to place sustainability and the vision of closed loop systems at the heart of business models. This requires collaboration across multiple industries along entire value chains and across full product lifecycles.  This work will continue to:

	Build on the first and second phases of work and the principles for sustainable value chains as summarised in the Foreword of Redesigning Business Value, signed by 14 global CEOs: Innovation, Collaboration, Investment, Values and Leadership
	Develop the three specific workstreams aligned with the vision of closed loops and lifecycle thinking, and explore the most effective strategic options to achieve transformative results.
	Highlight ideas, partnerships and opportunities for short-term action and explore how these might be prototyped and taken forward over 2010.

(click on diagram to view the most recent 2 pager on Driving Sustainable Consumption)