Sustainable Lifestyles in Germany and India

Sustainable Lifestyles in Germany and India Sustainable Lifestyles in Germany and India Sustainable Lifestyles in Germany and India GERMANWATCH | CANSA Brief Summary The role sustainable lifestyles can play in achieving a paradigm shift towards sustainability is acknowledged in both the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement of 2015. [...] In the definition of sustainable lifestyles used in this paper, we follow the pre-dominant defini- tion in the literature: Sustainable lifestyles are those that reduce the ecological footprint (sometimes further simplified to the CO2-footprint) in order to stay within the ecological guardrails3. [...] 4 Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles, 2010: Report of the Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) 5 Sustainable Lifestyles in Germany and India GERMANWATCH | CANSA 1 Socio-economic and cultural context of sustainable lifestyles in Germany and India How far can I. [...] It contributed 14 % to industrial production and 4 % to the GDP and is one of the largest source of employment generation in the country. [...] Large shares of the Indian population are neither informed about the envi- ronmental and social crises of our times nor are they – and to a certain extent also of the German population – aware about the range of sustainable lifestyles options and their benefits.