The 10YFP Programme on Sustainable Lifestyles and Education

This fact sheet describes the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP) Programme on Sustainable Lifestyles and Education (SLE). The programme aims to foster the uptake of sustainable lifestyles as a common norm to address global challenges such as climate change, resource efficiency, and biodiversity conservation through multi-stakeholder cooperation and education.

• The 10YFP Programme on Sustainable Lifestyles and Education (SLE) is designed to address the gap between human resource consumption and the Earth's capacity. The document notes that the global footprint is currently approximately 1.5 times the Earth's total capacity, and without change, a population of 9.6 billion by 2050 would require nearly three planets to sustain current living standards.
• The SLE programme defines sustainable lifestyles as choices and social behaviors that reduce environmental degradation—specifically CO2 emissions, waste, pollution, and natural resource use—while promoting better quality of life and equitable socio-economic development.
• The programme's objectives include creating a common framework for understanding sustainable lifestyles, integrating these principles across all societal sectors, developing capacity-building tools, empowering individuals through all forms of education, and tracking the contribution of these actions to global challenges like climate change.
• The programme emphasizes the need for enabling conditions, including the design of 'people-centered' policies, the reform of markets to encourage private investment, and the development of physical infrastructure, particularly in urban areas where over half of the world's population currently resides.
• Education for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles (ESCL) is a core pillar, focusing on mainstreaming these concepts into formal curricula as well as non-formal, informal, and vocational training environments such as homes and workplaces.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2014). The 10YFP Programme on Sustainable Lifestyles and Education. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/10YFP-SLE_Brochure-07.11_FINAL.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. The 10YFP Programme on Sustainable Lifestyles and Education. 2014. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/10YFP-SLE_Brochure-07.11_FINAL.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute201410yfp, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{The 10YFP Programme on Sustainable Lifestyles and Education}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2014}, month = nov, url = {https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/10YFP-SLE_Brochure-07.11_FINAL.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }