One Planet network consultations on the value-chain approach and its application

The One Planet network is holding consultations to collectively define a common agenda for action building on the findings of the joint task group of the International Resource Panel and the One Planet network Report: “Catalysing science-based policy action on sustainable consumption and production: the value-chain approach and its application to food, construction and textiles”.

The aim is now to continue the application of the value-chain approach in the high-impact sectors of food, construction and plastics and thereby ensuring its scientific foundation. These three sectors are prioritised based on the Fourth UN Environment Assembly Resolution, and the One Planet recommendations to the High-Level Political Forum. 

Through consultation and collaboration, the Value-Chain Approach identifies where solutions already exist at key intervention points, and where there are gaps and opportunities, and defines a common agenda for concerted actions that can transform the system. This participatory approach taps into the bodies of lay and practical knowledge that are collectively held among SCP practitioners, as well as ensuring their crucial buy-in for the implementation of this common agenda.

The first set of consultations will focus on the sector of Food and will be organized in three series:

• Innovative business and policy solutions
• Defining common agenda
• Developing roadmap for action

The consultations series 1 on innovative business and policy solutions will be undertaken in April 2021 in the form of 5 expert workshops, each focusing on the prioritized stage of the food value-chain:

• Food services and tourism: 8th of April 
• Agricultural inputs, food traders and primary production: 15th of April
• Food processing/manufacturing and retail: 22nd of April
• Individual consumption: 29th of April
• Food-related policies and policy instruments: 6th of May

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