Sustainable Production & Consumption (SCP)

in the Eastern European & Southern Caucasus Regions of the EECCA

A three-day event took place simultaneously in Kyiv and Tbilisi, 17-19 April 2007, devoted to debating EECCA regional SCP issues. The first two days in each city were focused on Eastern Europe and South Caucasus, respectively, while Day 3  featured a video conference (TALK) between Kyiv and Tbilisi, linked to London, Copenhagen, Geneva and Amsterdam.

This reduces air travel (taking climate change into consideration), while allowing full participation by all interested parties. Setting best SCP practice, we intend to demonstrate that such an event is sustainable, efficient, economical and a model for future meetings of this nature.

In Tbilisi, this workshop run as a coordinated follow-on to an ANPED/Environmental League Southern Caucasus sub-regional meeting “NGO Vision in Decision-Making of CSD-15“(15-16 April), adding SCP as the cross-cutting issue.

Purpose of Workshop

  Evaluate national and sub-regional progress in Eastern Europe and South Caucasus on SCP policy development following Kiev-2003 Environment for Europe (EfE) decisions

  Support the EcoForum position at the Belgrade 2007 Environment Ministers Conference

  Establish an NGO forum to track UN Commission on Sustainable Development SCP cross-cutting issues to 2010 and beyond, bringing the EECCA countries into the international SCP framework (Marrakech Process)

  Demonstrate the sustainability and cost-effectiveness of video-conferencing for international NGO and other conferences

Participants

  EECCA NGOs (led by MAMA-86 Environmental NGO, Kyiv; EcoAccord, Moscow; Environmental League, Tbilisi) in association with St James's Research, London and ANPED, Amsterdam

  Partners for Environmental Cooperation in Europe (PECE) initiative

 Business representatives from major companies in EECCA

 Government representatives from the Ministries of Environment and Economics