Target 12.1: Programs on sustainable consumption and production
Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
Why shareholder democracy is helpful
The 10YFP is an intergovernmental program framework, so implementation is primarily governmental. Its substance, however, is corporate production and consumption patterns. UNEP's Global Resources Outlook 2024 reports material extraction tripled in five decades and will rise 60 percent by 2060 without action. Shareholder votes on packaging, resource use and disclosure (see 12.5 and 12.6) support the framework, so owners help at the margin.
How this was scoredHelpful
Helpful. Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
We have not yet written down the two answers behind this rating. Recording them on every item, so a reader can check the reasoning and not only the conclusion, is work in progress.
Every rating is the higher of two answers, one for what companies do and one for what they spend to stop the outcome, because the same vote reaches both. See the full method.
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What civil society organizations are helping owners on this
Filed the 2025 slate of circular economy proposals asking consumer and retail companies to address unrecyclable flexible plastic packaging and to move to recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging.
How this rating was made
Every item on every one of our maps is read against one question: how far does this depend on the people who own companies voting their values? We answer it twice, once for what companies do and once for what they spend to stop the outcome, and take whichever answer is higher, since the same vote reaches both. The score carries its reasoning and its sources so that a reader can check it rather than take it.
- Pivotal. Owners voting their values can deliver most of the outcome.
- Necessary. Owners remove an obstacle nothing else removes, and others must also act.
- Helpful. Owners voting their values help, and others carry most of it.
- Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
The advocacy record on this page holds only what a source we opened says happened. Where we searched and found nothing, the page says so rather than leaving a silence. Where a campaign names a filer the source does not name, it says that too. Ratings are ours; the list of subjects is UN Sustainable Development Goals's, and we link to their original.
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