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There is no standard definition of sustainable production and no common understanding of what the concept comprises. In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN Statistics Division draws from earlier work of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP 2010) and, in the SDG metadata repository for indicators (UNSD 2018), provides the following working definition of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP): “The use of services and related products, which respond to basic needs and bring a better quality of life while minimising the use of natural resources and toxic materials as well as the emissions of waste and pollutants over the life cycle of the service or product so as not to jeopardise the needs of future generation.” As one part of complex consumption-production systems, production “is the conversion of resources into usable products, which may be either goods or services” (UNEP 2010).
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Kusch-Brandt, S. (2019). Sustainable Production: Decoupling the Creation of Goods and Services from Unsustainable Resource Use and Environmental Degradation. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Responsible Consumption and Production. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71062-4_10-2
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