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INTRODUCTION
"I want Britain to be a leading player in this coming green
industrial revolution"
Rt Hon Tony Blair MP, Prime Minister
DTI works with others to encourage innovative, enterprising and
internationally competitive business solutions to environmental
problems and the wider challenges of sustainable development.
DTI's
Sustainable Development Action Plan
The DTI's Sustainable Development
Action Plan (SDAP) will be published on the 30 December, and will
be put on the website early in the new year. Copies of the SDAP
will be available by e-mail from 30 December. Please e-mail Tony
Kesten
The Sector Sustainability
Challenge aims to stimulate action to catalyse implementation at
company level.
The Government
wants to build on the Pioneers Group and strengthen our work with
business so as to improve our understanding of delivering long
term decoupling in key sectors whilst putting in place measures
to support that transition.
Therefore, the UK Sustainable Development Strategy commits the
Government to set a new Sector Sustainability Challenge to support
selected projects focused on taking forward sectoral or supply
chain
initiatives to put SCP into practical action. ...more
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
'Securing the Future'
the Government Sustainable Development Strategy (UK SDS) of March
2005 recognises that better eco-design is essential for improving
the performance of products and for stimulating real change in consumption
patterns. Sustainability has to be 'designed-in' at an early stage
of the product cycle. It is therefore proposed to bring together
expertise through a new Sustainable Design Forum to champion and
educate in eco-design and promote best practice.
The DTI, working with Defra and the Design Council, commissioned
a scoping study on design and sustainability. The report maps
UK sustainable design and draws out issues such as procurement,
skills and public policy and makes some initial recommendations
for taking sustainable design forward.
View Draft Design and Sustainability: A
Scoping Report
View Draft Design and Sustainability: A
Scoping Report Appendices
Once completed the final report
will be made availalble
"Securing The Future" - new UK strategy for sustainable
development
On 7th
March 2005, the Government launched its new strategy for
sustainable development, "Securing The Future", in
conjunction with a Strategic Framework. The Strategy takes account
of developments and new policies since the 1999 Strategy, both
domestically and internationally; the changed structure of
government in the UK with devolution to Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland; greater emphasis on delivery at regional level
and the new relationship between government and local authorities.
It also
highlights the renewed international push for sustainable
development from the World Summit on Sustainable Development in
Johannesburg in 2002. The Strategy is based on five principles:
Living Within Environmental Limits; Ensuring a Strong, Healthy and
Just Society; Achieving a Sustainable Economy; Promoting Good
Governance; and Using Sound Science Responsibly. It also sets out
shared priority areas for UK action: Sustainable Consumption and
Production; Climate Change and Energy; Natural Resource Protection
and Environmental Enhancement; and Sustainable Communities.
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Sustainable
Consumption and Production
"Changing Patterns: The UK
Government Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production"
sets out the framework for how the government will take forward
its commitment to sustainable consumption and production
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responsibility for these EU Directives:
Waste from
Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
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Restriction of the Use of
Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic
Equipment (ROHS)
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End Of Life
Vehicles
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Packaging and Packaging
Waste
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Batteries and
Accumulators
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Fluorinated Greenhouse
Gases
There is a new page on the
website containing information about the proposal for a
regulation of the European Parliament and Council on certain
fluorinated greenhouse
gases
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Business case for
sustainability
Clear and straightforward
guidance on successfully identifying, prioritising and
managing the impact of sustainability issues on
business:
Value,
Growth, Success: How Sustainable is Your Business?
Realising the
Value, Enhancing Business Success
The Pioneers Group
The Pioneers Group is a
best practice forum established by DTI and DEFRA to
accelerate the development and implementation of sectoral
sustainability
strategies
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DTI Sustainability
Strategy
The Strategy identifies
where DTI can make most difference in delivering the
Government's sustainable development
goals
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Contact Us
This site will be developed
further - please let us know how we can improve it by
telling us what information you would like to see here. sustainability@dti.gov.uk
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