strategy
Involving consumers in biodiversity conservation
Description:
The well-informed consumer can take individual decisions benefiting the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity through the choices they make in the market place. Context:
Human beings - just one of an estimated 10 million species on the planet - are currently estimated to be consuming, wasting, or diverting 40 percent of the net photosynthetic production on land. Constrained by:
Concealing real costs of consumer products Facilitates:
Using market forces to improve global environmentImplementing product-specific environmental policiesDeveloping eco-tourism business strategies for biodiversity conservation Facilitated by:
Promoting green sourcingPromoting community involvement in environmental protectionDeveloping national policies to change unsustainable consumption patterns Problems:
Excessive consumption of goods and servicesExcessive consumption of resources in industrialized countries
Natural resource depletion due to high-level consumption
Resource consumption exacerbated by price distortions
Unsustainable consumption patterns
Subjects:
Amenities → ConsumersConservation → Conservation
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
