Addressing obstacles to sustainable consumption

OnlineNov 21, 2024 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Description

Many consumers concerned about the environment aim to make more sustainable choices, such as eco-friendly buying and repairing, reusing, sharing or recycling products. However, a number of obstacles – e.g. misleading environmental claims, insufficient or unclear information on the environmental impacts of products, lack of convenient and affordable sustainable options – are obstacles to them doing so. This session will present the latest OECD research on sustainable consumption, including a 2024 survey of 35,000 consumers across 18 countries incorporating behavioural experiments, and outcomes of the October 2024 Consumer Policy Ministerial Meeting on Protecting and Empowering Consumers in the Digital and Green Transitions. It will include a panel discussion on how to protect consumers against greenwashing and support them in making greener choices.

Moderated by

Jens Lundsgaard

OECD

Deputy Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation

Speakers

CCB

Camila Cosse Braslavsky

Consumers International

Sustainable Consumption Specialist

JLC

Jorge Laguna Celis

United Nations Environmental Programme

Head of One Planet Network

CPA

Cecilia Parker Aranha

Competition and Markets Authority, United Kingdom

Director of Consumer Protection

Ambroise Pascal

Ministry of Economy, France

Delegate for the Ecological transition of the General directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF)

Lucia Reisch

University of Cambridge

El-Erian Professor of Behavioural Economics and Policy

Kyle Wiens

iFixit

CEO

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