The Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED) works to empower Northern civil society in creating and protecting sustainable communities and societies world-wide.
ANPED’s main focus is on sustainable consumption and production, the use of goods and services responding to basic human needs and bringing a better quality of life, while minimizing the use of natural resources, toxic materials and emissions of waste and pollutants over the life cycle, so as not to jeopardize the needs of future generations.
We build capacity among Northern civil society organizations through information, knowledge and skill-sharing, and enable their participation in local, national, regional and international decision-making processes on sustainable development.
Whereas our network has a worldwide reach, our member organizations are mainly located in the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) regions. More...
ANPED LATEST NEWS
April 2010: ANPED publishes leaflet on Sustainable Consumption and Production
One of the core issues for ANPED is Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), as this is at the heart of Sustainability. The next 2-year cycle of the CSD will also deal with the topic of SCP, in the review of the 10 year framework of SCP - the Marrakech process. To stress our position in this process we decided to publish a new leaflet.
If you want to be updated and participating on our discussions and process work during those two years, please write a mail to leida[at]anped.org, and we will subscribe you.
More information on the process including papers of all stakeholders is available on the website of CSD-18.
The Switch is a monthly newsletter distributed by the Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED) on initiatives that are making the switch to a sustainable society. The Switch covers various campaigns, new book releases, academic papers, policy processes and more. It takes a holistic and progressive approach to the sustainability debate and does not shy away from addressing controversial topics. The Switch also keeps you updated on upcoming conferences and events.
March 2010: New Anped report: Short survey of relevant indexes and sets of indicators concerning development towards sustainability. Written by Geurt van de Kerk and Arthur Manuel of the Sustainable Society Foundation, this new publication gives a very good overview of the various indexes and sets of indicators used nowadays by NGOs and governments.
Action Town June 2009: ANPED is one of the partners in the Action Town Project. This project is focused on concrete actions by creating partnerships between civil society organisations (CSO) and research organisations to increase knowledge exchange and the involvement of CSOs in research. The project looks into how CSOs can provide new insights for increasing efficiency of policy strategies, assessment tools and indicators for sustainable consumption and production. Partnering CSOs are encouraged to demonstrate this through small-scale exploratory actions during the project’s lifetime.
Outreach Issues at the CSD May 2009: Outreach Issues is the civil society newsletter produced by the SDIN Group (ANPED, TWN and ELCI) and Stakeholder Forum at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Outreach Issues aims to report with attitude, from the global scene of sustainability.
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