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The CSD work agenda for the next decade describes sustainable production and consumption as one of the key "cross-cutting approaches" to the two-year review and policy discussions of the full range of issues -- fresh water and sanitation, human settlements, energy, climate change, industry, sustainable agriculture...
However, there remains the question of how this cross-cutting approach is to be applied to the discussion of these issues. Obviously we can talk about the sustainable production and consumption of fresh water, or energy, or food and other issues. Yet there is no systematic plan or method incorporated into the work plan where this analysis and discussion takes place.
As an "approach" or methodology, what is the most useful way of bringing the discussion of sustainable production and consumption into these policy discussions? Is there a particular method or process which we might agree upon, introduce and apply the perspectives and tools of SPAC to these issues?
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