Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Promoting sustainable production and consumption patterns is a key factor in economic development that considers social and environmental costs. This includes promoting efficient use of natural resources and transforming business production models to align with nature. Implementation must occur through
integrated collaboration between government, private sector, and civil society. This involves reducing food loss and waste, proper management of waste and chemicals, supporting 3Rs practices (reduce, reuse, and recycle), applying science and technology to enhance production and consumption, and promoting clean energy use for long-term sustainability. Thailand has developed a sustainable production and consumption action plan to use natural resources efficiently and in balance. The business sector emphasizes sustainable business operations and sustainability reporting based on ESG principles, developing green industries, reducing fossil fuel subsidies, and increasing renewable energy use. The government also promotes sustainable tourism and develops environmental cost accounting. Thailand has higher food waste volumes than the average for upper-middle-income countries. All sectors should urgently address waste management and hazardous waste issues.
Sub-target 12.1
Implement the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production patterns, with all countries taking action, developed countries taking the lead and taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
Sub-target 12.2
Achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources by 2030
Sub-target 12.3
Halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030
Sub-target 12.4
Achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment by 2020
Sub-target 12.5
Substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse by 2030
Sub-target 12.6
Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
Sub-target 12.7
Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities
Sub-target 12.8
Ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature by 2030
Sub-target 12.A
Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
Sub-target 12.B
Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
Sub-target 12.C
Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies to reflect their environmental impacts
