1. Civil Society Organizations:
Promoting Sustainable Consumption
Viktoriya Malyarchuk
UNENG0 “MAMA-86”
www.mama-86.org.ua

2. Outline
 Defining Sustainable consumption (SC)
 SC in Ukraine: key problems and perspectives.
Sectoral overview.
 Challenges to shift the system to sustainable
consumption.
 Promoting SC – action plan for CSOs
 CSOs as a driver of SC. Best practices.

3. Defining Sustainable Consumption
 Sustainable consumption and production aims at reducing
emissions and resource consumption, while maintaining
life satisfaction.
 2002 – Johannesburg World Summit for Sustainable
Development gave a start to Marrakesh Process, a work to
develop the 10-year framework for sustainable consumption and
production.

4. SC in Ukraine
Ecological Footprint of
production – 3,31 (world –
2,7);
Ecological Footprint of
Consumption – 2,9 (world –
2,7).
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5. Meat consumption in Ukraine: 90% growth
Small changes – big effect. Rejecting eating meat only
once a week, we can reduce emissions by 170 kg-CO2 per
person a year.
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7. Ideas for sustainable food consumption
Make usable alternatives though a
small group’s effort.
 Vegetarian cooking course, sustainable
cook book;
 Traditional food brand – support local
producers;
 Spreading veggie recipes – “Low-carbon”
diet;
 Greening supermarkets and production
chains;
 ...
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8. Ideas for sustainable housing
 Connecting communities to sustainable best
practices, show examples;
 Eco-housing demonstration;
 Building sustainable homes with local and
traditional knowledge and experience;
 ...
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9. Ideas for sustainable mobility
 Lobby governments to invest in public transport,
form cycling infrastructure;
 Encouraging sustainable local instead of long-distance
travel – make people discover their country;
 Research on environmental impact of transport
infrastructure;
 ..
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10. The degree of potential involvement of
CSOs
Source: action-town.eu
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11. Individual Level: Address behaviour
Create systems, that lead to
sustainable consumption
 Use examples of positive
change;
 Give convincing evidence,
where change is most
needed;
 Organize a process of
deliberation, learning and
analysis on leading
examples.
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12. Local Level
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13. National Level
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14. What can CSOs do?
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15. Partnership network
Source:
http://www.scp-centre.org/
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16. Experience: “Green Choice of Ukraine”
project by MAMA-86
Main issues:
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Economic Efficient and Safe Building
- Environmental Education for Sustainable Development
Goals:
 Forming environmentally thoughtful individual
consumer;
 Increasing citizen's environmental awareness and
activity. Empower them to claim their human rights
for safe and healthy environment.
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17. Focus: multi-apartment building
household’s technology & behaviours –
energy, water use, waste
Objectives:
- Demonstrate resource saving;
- Encourage consumer choice of green housing technologies;
- Lobbying for legal changes to involve public in housing &
communal services reform.
Stakeholders:
- Households in multi-apartment buildings;
- Local and national policymakers;
- Business, experts.
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18. EcoBox
-Database of easy and
practical solutions,
helping to practice
sustainable house
holding:
Architecture and
Construction;
Energy supply and
Energy saving;
Land use and land
development;
Waste management
and collection.
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19. Economically Effective and Safe Building
(MAMA-86-Artemivsk)
 Reduction in monthly payments for utility services (water,
electricity and gas);
 Guaranteeing public participation in drafting legislation,
resulting in change of rates at the local level;
 Linking 1600 households with solid waste management
system;
 Developing a database on green technologies for doing the
household: http://www.ecovillage.in.ua/;
 300 000 citizens are covered with an informational campaign
on creating green house.
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20. Economic efficient and safe building
 Organisation of workshops and trainings on relevant topic –
demonstrational tours;
 Bring the idea of green technologies use in households to communities (7
buildings);
 Use of informational materials: magazine, “Ecobox”, “Ecophone”, leaflets,
etc.
 Meeting with potential partners, installing equipment.
Key results:
- Reducing hot water bills – 80%;
- Reducing payments for heating – 70%;
- A corporate enterprise established with the participation of local society,
public authorities and business.
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21. So, there is a need and a special
role for CSOs
 Startthe process with a wide participation
of stakeholders;
 Use your imagination: how to impress the
society?
 Look for new demonstration tools (free
exhibitions, cultural events, Media, etc);
 Keep your motivation, and the changes
come.
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22. Our further plans
 MAMA-86 is actively lobbying adopting the 10-Years
Framework Programme for Sustainable Consumption and
Production, SCP Strategy and Action Plan.
 The relevant goal in National Environmental Action Plan
(Development and Adoption of SCP Strategy and Action Plan)
was also lobbied by MAMA-86;
 We are conducting research, studying best practices,
especially monitoring the situation of SCP patterns in different
regions of Ukraine and neighbouring countries.
 EcoBox is open for your best practices of green technologies
use, so you are always welcome to share them with us.
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23. Thanks for attention!
We are open for cooperation!
www.mama-86.org.ua
info@mama-86.org.ua