Goal 12- Global Goals

Global Goal

Goal 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production

I looked in the mirror and saw truth behind all the lies.

The truth was that I’ve been producing waste recklessly and not worrying about the dire consequences which were threatening the balance for sustainability of nature and humans all together. Like buying new pair of shoes when I didn’t even need any, throwing away reusable materials, upgrading phones more often and wasting food.

Then I realized that my mother, who was always strict about wasting food and not shy to reuse almost everything in some manner, was right all along. When I was a teenager those habits seemed very “uncool” to me for all the wrong reasons. And the media content I was consuming wasn’t helping either.

This is for anybody who might feel the same way how i felt then. We can stop seeing things from a hole and turn our heads this time. Lets give it a nice shake and wake ourselves up. Shrug off all the distractions of current times to focus on what we’ve been ignoring. Being a consumer is as responsible as the leaders of the world.

Few small questions now will lead to big changes. Read about how things as common as cotton shirts can impact the world resources. Demand for facts. Time for Ethical buying is now.

Sustainable Development Goals are created as basic guidelines to achieve better future than the one we are heading into. Each goal has it’s own targets to create action. Here are the targets for GOAL 12 – Responsible Consumption And Production

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Target 12.1

Implement the 10‑Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries.

Target 12.2

By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.

Target 12.3

By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.

Target 12.4

By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment.

Target 12.5

By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.

Target 12.6

Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle.

Target 12.7

Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities.

Target 12.8

By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.

Target 12.A

Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production.

Target 12.B

Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products.

Target 12.C

Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities.