14 May 2015: The 1st Global Stakeholder Meeting of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP) brought together over 90 participants, from governments, academia, civil society and international organizations, to: illustrate and explore the universal nature and added value of shifting towards sustainable consumption and production (SCP) for achievement of sustainable development; promote the 10YFP as an implementation mechanism of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and post-2015 development agenda, with a focus on programmes, their delivery at regional and national levels, and measurement of capacity built through them; and explore the capacity of the 10YFP and its programmes to support the SDGs and the shift to SCP patterns.

The Global Stakeholder Meeting took place at UN Headquarters in New York, US, on 14 May 2015. Delegates discussed: opportunities for change through continued development of the 10YFP programmes; the opportunity to scale-up and share experiences at the national and regional levels; the role of SCP as a cross-cutting enabler to achieve many of the proposed SDGs through the implementation of the 10YFP; and the challenge of converging multi-stakeholder partnerships and policies, indicating the need to have this informed by statistics.

The Stakeholder Meeting, under the aegis of the 1st Global Meeting of the 10YFP, was followed by sessions on Implementing and Inter-linking 10YFP Programmes, on 15 May 2015. [IISD RS coverage of the Global Stakeholder Meeting on 10YFP].