The Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED) works to empower Northern civil society in creating and protecting sustainable communities and societies world-wide.
ANPED’s main focus is on sustainable consumption and production, the use of goods and services responding to basic human needs and bringing a better quality of life, while minimizing the use of natural resources, toxic materials and emissions of waste and pollutants over the life cycle, so as not to jeopardize the needs of future generations.
We build capacity among Northern civil society organizations through information, knowledge and skill-sharing, and enable their participation in local, national, regional and international decision-making processes on sustainable development. Whereas our network has a worldwide reach, our member organizations are mainly located in the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) regions. More...
ANPED LATEST NEWS
Action Town June 2009: ANPED is one of the partners in the Action Town Project. This project is focused on concrete actions by creating partnerships between civil society organisations (CSO) and research organisations to increase knowledge exchange and the involvement of CSOs in research. The project looks into how CSOs can provide new insights for increasing efficiency of policy strategies, assessment tools and indicators for sustainable consumption and production. Partnering CSOs are encouraged to demonstrate this through small-scale exploratory actions during the project’s lifetime.
Outreach Issues at the CSD May 2009: Outreach Issues is the civil society newsletter produced by the SDIN Group (ANPED, TWN and ELCI) and Stakeholder Forum at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Outreach Issues aims to report with attitude, from the global scene of sustainability.
Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus Workshop on CSD and NSDS The ANPED Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus CSD-NSDS Capacity Building and Training workshop took place on 27-28 November 2008 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The event was organized for NGOs from Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine with participation of NGO representatives from Latvia and Russia. The workshop was carried out by All-Ukrainian Environmental Non-Governmental Organization "MAMA-86".
European Civil Society Statement for UNEP Governing Council November 2008: During the UNEP European Regional Consultation Meeting (RCM), held in Geneva on 17-18 November, European civil society representatives, among which were many members of the ANPED network, agreed on a common statement calling on their Ministers of Environment to show leadership in the transition towards a system which is beneficial for both the planet and the people.
North America Workshop on SCP November 2008: Jeffrey Barber, Board Member of the Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED), took part in the North American Workshop on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), aimed at defining a regional approach to advance SCP in North America that also contributes to the global Marrakech Process.
ANPED Prague Statement on SCP October 2008: At the European Regional Meeting on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) under the Marrakech Process, held in Prague, the Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED) delivered a statement addressing the recently adopted EU Action Plan on SCP. 
CSD Workshop for Russian NGOs October 2008: The Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED), together with the Moscow office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Ecodefense Group, organized a workshop for Russian NGOs in Moscow on 15 October 2008, entitled NGO Consultations on Issues of the 17th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. 
EECCA SCP Policy Review August 2008: The SCP Policy Review of Western and South Caucasus EECCA Countries seeks to draw the picture of current progress on the environmental policy integration, sustainable development agenda and sustainable consumption and production concept implementation in countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. 
EU SCP Action Plan July 2008: The European Commission this month adopted proposals to expand the scope of existing eco design and labelling requirements to all products that impact on energy consumption. The energy focus reveals the heavy control of DG Enterprise, whose sustainable industrial policy focuses purely on energy and climate change. In September 2007, ANPED sent a series of recommendations on the SCP Action Plan to the European Commission. 
Action on Climate Change March 2008: A new report by Chris Church, Co-Chair of ANPED, and Tamara Malkova, Director of Green Dossier, looks at the role of NGOs in tackling climate change. The report, Action on Climate Change: From a Divided Europe to a Common Purpose, is based on a survey carried out by NGOs within the ANPED Network in autumn 2007.
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