Refers to the use of services and related products which respond to basic needs and bring a better quality of life while minimizing the use of natural resources and toxic materials as well as the emissions of waste and pollutants over the life cycle of the service or product so as not to jeopardize the needs of further generations [1]. Sustainable production concerns the supply side, focusing on the economic, social and environmental impact of production processes, while sustainable consumption addresses the demand side, focusing on consumers’ choices of goods and services, such as food, shelter, clothing, mobility and leisure, to fulfil basic needs and improve the quality of life [2].* Sources:  [1] This definition was provided by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment at the Oslo Symposium on Sustainable Consumption in 1994 and has since become the most widely accepted definition of the term “sustainable consumption and production”. See document UNEP/GC.26/7 (2010), footnote 3. [2] Commission on Sustainable Development, “Consumer protection: guidelines for sustainable consumption”, E/CN.17/1998/5, annex, para. 7. *This term is included in the glossary of key terms prepared for the work of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, under the category 'Terms used in Environment Assembly resolution 5/14 that have definitions adopted or endorsed by an intergovernmental process'. See UNEP/PP/INC.1/6.