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Professor Sándor Kerekes Department of
Environmental Economics and Technology
SÁNDOR KEREKES
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The Big Contradiction
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The Big Contradiction
SÁNDOR KEREKES
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The Big Contradiction

• Increase spending to save the economy from the
  crisis
• Reducing consumption to save
• the environment
• Our challenge how to solve this
• contradiction?

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What is sustainability ??

• To satisfy the needs of the present generation
  without compromising the needs of future
  generation
• How much we need to care about the future
  generation??
• We have to consume less or in a different way.

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Accepted definitions of SC

• Ofstad 1994 The use of goods and services that
  respond to basic needs and bring a better quality
  of life, while minimizing the use of natural
  resources, toxic materials and emissions of waste
  and pollutants over the lifecycle, so as not to
  jeopardize the needs of future generations.
• UNEP 1999 Sustainable consumption is not about
  consuming less, it is about consuming
  differently, consuming efficiently, and having an
  improved quality of life
• National Consumer Council, UK, 2003 SC is a
  balancing act. It is about consuming in such a
  way as to protect the environment, use natural
  resources wisely and promote quality of life now,
  while not spoiling the lives of future
  consumers.

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Our goal for the workshop

• Discussing the obstacles and opportunities of
  sustainable consumption
• (Main source for SC The Earthscan Reader in
  Sustainable Consumption, edited by Tim Jackson,
  USA and UK, 2006)

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Definitions of sustainable consumption

• consuming not unsustainably
• changing lifestyles
• constraints by environmental limits
• consuming less
• more efficient production of more sustainable
  products
• consuming more efficiently
• ? from changing lifestyles to consuming
  efficiently
• (dominant institutional consensus)

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Consuming efficiently

• Developing new technologies
• Increasing the eco-efficiency of the products
• Rethinking our industries in terms of
  sustainability and eco-efficiency

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Four central strategies of natural capitalism

• NATURAL RESOURCE ENERGY
• BIOMIMICRY
• FROM THE STOCK ECONOMY TO THE FLOW ECONOMY
• INVESTING IN NATURAL CAPITAL
• SourceHawken P. Lovins A. Lovins L.H. Natural
  Capitalism Little, Brown and Company 1999. Pp 396.

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Is it the same job? Why using a machine when 2/3
of the Population in the world is not useful for
the Economy??
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The contradiction is not solved yet