Preferred term
Target 16
Type
- Target
Definition
- Ensure that people are encouraged and enabled to make sustainable consumption choices including by establishing supportive policy, legislative or regulatory frameworks, improving education and access to relevant and accurate information and alternatives, and by 2030, reduce the global footprint of consumption in an equitable manner, including through halving global food waste, significantly reducing overconsumption and substantially reducing waste generation, in order for all people to live well in harmony with Mother Earth.
Narrower concepts
- 16.b Number of countries developing, adopting or implementing policy instruments aimed at encouraging and enabling people to make sustainable consumption choices
- 16.CT.1 Food Waste Index
- 16.CT.2 Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP
- 16.CT.3 Ecological footprint
- 16.CY.1 Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education and (d) student assessment
- 16.CY.2 National recycling rate, tons of material recycled
- 16.CY.3 Human appropriation of net primary production
- 16.CY.4 CO2 emission per unit of value added
- 16.CY.5 Change in water-use efficiency over time
- 16.CY.6 Indicators from the Life Cycle Impact Assessment Programme
- 16.CY.7 Poverty level
Entry terms
- Enable Sustainable Consumption Choices To Reduce Waste and Overconsumption
- Sustainable consumption choices are enabled, and food waste reduced by half
Source
- https://www.cbd.int/doc/decisions/cop-15/cop-15-dec-04-en.pdf
Title
- Sustainable consumption choices are enabled, and food waste reduced by half
In other languages
URI
http://metadata.cbd.int/kmgbf/target_16