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SPAC Watch
Background
SPAC Watch offers a civil society perspective to the dialogue on production and consumption policies and practices, monitoring and assessing progress by governments from rhetoric to realization.
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Tracking
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SPAC Watch was launched in early 1999 at the international NGO Conference on Sustainable Production and Consumption, "From Consumer Society to Sustainable Society: Towards Sustainable Production and Consumption" [PDF] held in Soesterberg, Netherlands. It aims to address the need for greater public knowledge and information on production and consumption trends, to encourage greater public awareness and advocacy, and to help encourage pressure on governments, business leaders and institutions to promote and implement sustainable production and consumption policies and practices
"SPAC Watch: An NGO initiative to monitor national progress towards sustainable production and consumption", reported in Consumption and Production Patterns - News and Trends (Feb-Mar 1999)
SPAC
Watch was very active throughout the preparatory process to the World
Summit on Sustainable Development, as well as during the actual Summit.
SPAC Watch organized side events at New York,
Bali and Johannesburg at New York, Bali, and Johannesburg focusing
on the importance of civil society assessment of progress towards sustainable
production and consumption. Johannesburg also marked the release of
the SPAC Watch Report titled "Waiting
for Delivery".
During the 11th session of the Commission of Sustainable Development at New York in April 2003, SPAC Watch organized a panel discussion on National Strategies for Sustainable Development and the 10 year framework of programmes on sustainable production and consumption.
"NGOs need to monitor and assess government progress towards SPAC"
Jeffrey Barber, SPAC Update, May 2003
SPAC Watch is currently in the process of preparing a global collaborative report to influence the 2nd international expert meeting on sustainable production and consumption to be held at Costa Rica in September 2005.