SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
- Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns
- 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
- 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
- Reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
- Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
- Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities
- ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information an awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
Activities Undertaken
- Converting food waste to biogas which is then used to prepare steam for cooking
- Converting slurry from biogas into manure for gardening
- Actively employing the ‘Recycle, Reuse and Reduce’ mantra
- Ensuring largely vehicle free campuses, aided with the use of electric shuttles when necessary
- Largely vehicle free campuses aided by use of electric shuttles when necessary.
- NSS, YRC, and Rangers & Rovers units of KISS-DU conduct a campaign to raise awareness of sustainable consumption through following indigenous way of living
- The School of Tribal Resource Management offers courses on the sustainable utilization and management of tribal resources.
