Enabling an urgent transformation to Sustainable Consumption and Production systems is needed, respecting the Earth system’s finite resource availability and resilience.

With the Earth’s finite resource availability and resilience, current patterns of global development based on the continuous extraction of natural resources and people’s exploitation are not sustainable. A fundamental restructuring of production, distribution, and consumption systems is indispensable to accommodate world demographic growth and rising levels of consumption while advancing well-being for all in a just and equitable manner on a finite planet.

Meanwhile, it is becoming increasingly apparent that focusing mainly on science and technology is not sufficient for achieving the types and magnitudes of reductions in material and energy demand necessary to prevent social and ecological crises. Equal consideration must be given to end-user consumption and the social structures that drive it upward. Satisfying this more ambitious objective entails policy measures that limit volumes of production and consumption. It also raises critical questions about social and economic equity, continued economic growth, and individual and societal well-being.

The Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SSCP) Knowledge-Action Network (KAN) is a global network of researchers and practitioners interested in ways that sustainable consumption and production systems can be created, nurtured, and contribute to a more sustainable world. The SSCP KAN aims to contribute to enhancing global equity, reducing unequal access to resources, and enabling all people on the planet to lead flourishing lives within biophysical constraints. To achieve its lofty aims, the SSCP KAN works to advance a more systemic SCP approach, encouraging and enabling an urgent transformation in theory and practice to SCP systems.

Key Contacts

Ria Lambino

Deputy Director, Japan Hub

Steven R. McGreevy

Co-Chair, Future Earth SSCP KAN; Assistant Professor of Institutional Rurban Sustainability Studies, University of Twente; Visiting Associate Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

Georgina Guillen-Hanson

Co-Chair, Future Earth SSCP KAN, Researcher, Gamification Group - Tampere University

Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production Contact

Knowledge-Action Network (SSCP KAN)

SSCP KAN Online Conference 2022:TRANSITIONING TO SYSTEMS OF SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION: FROM KNOWLEDGE TO ACTION

8 – 17 November 2022

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Working Groups

To address a specific issue of significance to the mission of the network, the SSCP KAN has identified six focal themes as below. These Working Groups will collaboratively design studies, generate knowledge, and initiate other activities.

Research and Engagement Plan

Download the Research and Engagement Plan to learn more about the field of SCP, working groups, the history of KAN, and how we hope the KAN will develop in the future.

Who We Are

Management Team

Magnus Bengtsson
Maurie Cohen
Charlotte Louise Jensen
Sylvia Lorek
Hein Mallee
Steven R. McGreevy
Patrick Schröder

Steering Committee

Eva Alfredsson
Kartika Anggraeni
Magnus Bengtsson
Karla Brollier
(Anthony) Shun Fung Chiu
Ashley Colby
Leonie Dendler
Paul Dewick
Felix Donkor
Georgina Guillen-Hanson
Glenda Kasonde
Charlotte Louise Jensen
Sylvia Lorek
Morakane Madiba
Manu V. Mathai
Tebogo Mashifana
Steven R. McGreevy
Shruti Neelakantan
Jaco Quist
Thomas Anton Reuter
Leida Rijnhout
Daigee Shaw
Renuka Thakore