Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Targets
12.1 Implement the 10‑Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
12.2 By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
12.3 By 2030, 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
12.4 By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
12.7 Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities
12.8 By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
12.a Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
12.b Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
12.c Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities
National set of indicators for monitoring progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal 12
Indicator ID | Indicator name | Source | Unit of measure | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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12.0.E.146 | Domestic material consumption per capita | Eurostat | Tonnes per capita | 21.300 | 18.923 | 19.672 | 20.326 | 20.632 | 20.425 | 22.799 | 25.482e | |
12.0.N.147 | Happy Planet Index | Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) | Index | 40.432991 | 40.148052 | 40.935937 | 40.579417 | 40.130775 | 43.684355 | |||
12.0.E.148 | Greenhouse gases emissions from production activities | Eurostat | Kilograms per capita | 81 116 307 | 78 237 315 | 81 752 062 | 76 005 698 | 74 537 063 | 65 771 561 | 752 189 551 | 84 660 502 | |
12.0.E.149 | Material flow accounts - Direct material inputs | Eurostat | Tonnes per capita | 24.971 | 22.911 | 23.872 | 24.330 | 25.096 | 24.388 | 27.091 | 30.137e | |
12.2.E.150 | Resource productivity | Eurostat | Purchasing power standard (PPS) per kilogram | 0.6207 | 0.7368e | 0.7496 | 0.7678 | 0.8049 | 0.8113 | 0.8174 | 0.8572e | |
12.0.E.151 | Average CO2 emissions per km from new passenger cars | Eurostat | Average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per km | 130.3 | 125.8 | 153.0 | 153.6е | 157.8е | 147.1 | 139.5 | 134.7 | |
12.3.N.152 | Food Waste Index | NSI | % | 100.0 | 95.1 | |||||||
12.0.E.153 | Circular material use rate | Eurostat | % | 3.1 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 5.9 | 4.8 | 4.8 | |
12.0.E.154 | Generation of waste by hazardousness - Hazardous | Eurostat | Kilograms per capita | 1 870 | 1 912 | 2 012 | ||||||
12.5.U.155 | Proportion of municipal waste recycled | UN Global database | % | 29.35902 | 31.82923 | 34.57792 | 31.48148 | 34.57792е | 65.46483 | - | - | |
12.b.U.156 | Implementation of standard accounting tools to monitor the economic and environmental aspects of tourism (Tourism Satellite Account tables) | UN Global database | Number of Tables/ Accounts compiled | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | - | ||
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Country: Bulgaria
Source: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs