WikiProject UNESCO/Global Goals Discussion/Goal 12

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This is a discussion to help explore Wikimedia's role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, also known as the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Each goal is broken down into it's individual targets with spaces to discuss and document:

  • Existing projects, activities, campaigns, partnerships and other Wikimedia activities that contribute to the Global Goals
  • Potential activities within Wikimedia projects that could help reach the Global Goals


Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns





Implement the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries[edit]

Target 12.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (Q57590867)

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By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources[edit]

Target 12.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (Q57590868)

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By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses[edit]

Target 12.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (Q57590870)

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By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment[edit]

Target 12.4 of the Sustainable Development Goals (Q57590871)

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By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse[edit]

Target 12.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (Q57590873)

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Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle[edit]

Target 12.6 of the Sustainable Development Goals (Q57590874)

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Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities[edit]

Target 12.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals (Q57590875)

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By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature[edit]

Target 12.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals (Q57590876)

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Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production[edit]

Target 12.a of the Sustainable Development Goals (Q57590879)

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Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products[edit]

Target 12.b of the Sustainable Development Goals (Q57590880)

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Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities[edit]

Target 12.c of the Sustainable Development Goals (Q57590881)

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