Sustainable Consumption & Production

The Background

This session builds on the Digital2030 Challenge: taking climate action with a circular economy. It explores how we can take climate with a circular economy. It explores how we can take climate action by making changes to the way we extract and use the planet's resources in a fairer way.

It primarily engages with SDG 12: Sustainable Consumption and Production. It also intersects with SDG 13: Climate Action.

Session Title

Digital Leaders - take climate action by advancing a circular economy

Session Description

The climate crisis is a crisis of overconsumption. We extract more resources than the planet can naturally replace, and then we discard waste that can harm the natural environment. This process of taking resources, using energy to manipulate or manufacture them, generating emissions, to ultimately create waste, is the linear economy.

While we are facing some major challenges, all hope is not lost. In fact, we could radically reimagine the way things are done simply by going back to our roots. The circular economy is a rethinking of how we use things, that focuses on renewable and regenerative resources. It encourages a move from take-make-waste, to preventing waste from ever being created.

In these interactive sessions, we are bringing together young people to:

• Discuss the different ways that humans interact and change our environment, and the impacts this can have on people and nature.

• Identify some of the actions or solutions that we are aware of, or already taking, to try and live more sustainably.

• Consider some of the ways we can take action to address these problems, and encourage others to do so too.

World leaders have until 2030 to meet the SDGs, and we need to act FAST on the climate crisis. Don’t leave it to those in charge - Digital Leaders: we need your voices in this conversation.