Conserving Biodiversity Through Sustainable Production and Consumption

9 October 2007 in Belgrade, Serbia

One of the main threats to biodiversity in Europe and around the world are the growing, unsustainable production and consumption patterns of human economic growth. On 9 October 2007, ECO Forum will host a pre-conference on "Conserving Biodiversity Through Sustainble Production and Consumption" in Belgrade, just before the Environment for Europe ministerial confernence.

This web page will be used to provide links to papers and resources and other materials related to the pre-conference and its themes. We are hoping that this discussion linking these two issues will continue. We will use this page to encourage follow-up discussions and actions.

Documents

Pre-conference background paper on "Protecting Biodiversity Through Sustainable Production and Consumption" (soon available)

Barber, Jeffrey. Production, consumption and the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Integrative Strategies Forum. In Hens, Luc and Nath, Bhaskar (eds.) The World Summit on Sustainable Development: The Johannesburg Conference, Springer (2005)

Golubovska-Onisimova, Anna. Summary conclusions of the seminar on sustainable consumption and production for western EECCA countries. April 17-19, 2007.

Rees, William E. Why conventional economic logic won't protect biodiversity. In D.M. Lavigne (ed.) Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability , pp. 207-226. International Fund for Animal Welfare, Guelph, Canada, and the University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland (2006).

Spangenberg, Joachim.H. Biodiversity pressure and the driving forces behind. Ecological Economics (2006)

Other resources

Biodiversity resources

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Pan-European Biological Diversity Strategy (PEBLDS)

SPAC resources

Marrakech Process
International Coalition for Sustainable Productin and Consumption (ICSPAC)