This means educating about effects that this current pattern of consumption will have on people and planet, getting celebrities, influencers and global leaders to support sustainable fashion and focusing on who makes the products.
Scenario 1 (the most effective scenario for both public health and environmental sustainability) represents a substantial change from the current pattern of consumption in the UK, and if it were adopted as a target, then it would be a considerable challenge for most consumers and indeed producers of food.
Current patterns of meat consumption are considered to be unsustainable.
Recent and rapid declines in the condition of these ecosystems indicate that current patterns of water consumption are ecologically unsustainable, particularly in agricultural landscapes.
"If current trends continue, if current patterns of production and consumption of natural resources prevail and cannot be reversed, then governments will preside over unprecedented levels of damage and degradation".
Moving from current patterns of production and consumption toward a path that is more productive, equitable and sustainable is a choice.
Its Executive Director, Achim Steiner, said "If current trends continue, if current patterns of production and consumption of natural resources prevail and cannot be reversed and 'decoupled,' then governments will preside over unprecedented levels of damage and degradation".
"If current trends continue, if current patterns of production and consumption of natural resources prevail and cannot be reversed and 'decoupled', then governments will preside over unprecedented levels of damage and degradation," Steiner said in a statement.
… It is becoming clear that the roots of the problem we face today are in the current patterns of global production and consumption, which are not sustainable.
A further strength is the recentness of the data (2012 2013), which must be interpreted to reflect the current pattern of alcohol consumption.
