Arab Regional Strategy for Sustainable Consumption and Production

The Marrakech Process is a global effort to promote progress on the implementation of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) and the elaboration of a 10- Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP). The process responds to the call of the WSSD Johannesburg Plan of Implementation to develop a 10YFP to support regional and national initiatives to promote the shift towards sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns. The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) will review the theme of SCP during its 2010/11 two-year cycle. This strategy is the Arab’s contribution to the Marrakesh process; it highlights the priority action areas to achieve the objectives of alleviating poverty while using goods and services which use less natural resources specially energy and water.