strategy
Improving consumption practices
Synonyms:
Reducing unethical activities involving consumptionAbolishing unethical consumption practices
Context:
With only 4.5 percent of the world's population, the United States uses about 25 percent of the earth's resources and contributes more than 20 percent of global emissions of carbon dioxide -- the atmospheric pollutant that accounts for about half of global warming. In 1996 the United States contributed one fifth more carbon to everybody's atmosphere than did China, which is 4.5 times as populous.
Narrower:
Taxing disposable productsMonitoring dumping of consumer waste productsMonitoring dumping of consumer waste products Facilitates:
Enabling equitable resource use Facilitated by:
Cultivating poverty of spiritProtesting sale of tropical timber Problems:
Unethical consumption practicesSubjects:
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
