Consumption
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The Working Group on Consumption sees itself as a platform for sharing experience and a forum for networking the activities of the participating institutions on the issue of Education for Sustainable Consumption. The goal of sustainable consumption is ecologically, socially and economically acceptable improvement in the quality of life. This also involves looking at the entire production chain, in order to record and analyse the interaction between consumption and production systems. The Working Group expects that the necessary long-term changes in behaviour can only be achieved if the younger generations in particular are educated accordingly (consumer education). This means that information about production and consumption must be understood, processed and assessed by consumers.
The aim is to promote awareness of the need for changes in behaviour in favour of sustainability. Sustainable consumption is also “political consumption”, in which economically active citizens exert political influence on global problems via their choices and consumption decisions.
The Working Group deals in particular with the issue of “Sustainable Consumption and Climate Change”. On this topic, a nationwide conference with over 220 participants was organised in September 2008 and various approaches for Sustainable Consumption were presented and discussed. Using these resources, the Working Group on Consumption will define its next steps.
Contact:
Working Group on Consumption
Arbeitsgruppe Konsum
Federation of German Consumer Organisations
Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv)
Markgrafenstraße 66
10969 Berlin, Germany
phone + 49 30 25800500
fax + 49 30 25800518
Person to contact: Gerd Billen
billen@vzbv.de
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