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Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) is a policy concept aiming at sustainable development that focuses on consumption and production systems. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) defines SCP as “a holistic approach to minimizing the negative environmental impacts of consumption and production systems while promoting quality of life for all” (UNEP, 2015). The focus of SCP policy, however, has shifted from simple management of environmental pollution to promotion of wider socio-technical change including infrastructure, lifestyles and business models that are sustainable over the decades. 2 Material Cycles Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 4 Integrated Sustainability Centre, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, 1 Sustainable Consumption and Production Area, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, 1. Introduction Key words: efficiency, envisioning-based policymaking (EnBPM), social experimentation, The focus of SCP policy has shifted from management of environmental pollution to wider socio-technical change including infrastructure, lifestyles and business models that are sustainable over decades. This paper first examines the expansion of the SCP policy domain through changes in focus of the following two aspects; product lifecycle policy and policy for changes in provision systems. The authors call for limiting lifecycle-based policy approaches to those that address a socio-technical transition to sustainability. They argue that transition-oriented SCP policy design proposed as envisioning-based policymaking (EnBPM) requires a new approach based on envisioning, social experimentation, a new indicator system to monitor the progress of transition, and development of a new business model. In doing so, they further develop the case for EnPBM and the present direction of potential policy research for developing EnBPM as a policy design approach. sustainable consumption and production (SCP), transition Conventional environmental policy has aimed at environmentally-benign consumption and production such as pollution prevention, promotion of green products and services, and inclusion of environmental externalities into economic activities. Recently, especially since around Abstract 2015, SCP policies have also come to facilitate more fundamental changes in consumption and production in terms of technology, business models and infrastructure changes. Hotta et al. 2021 emphasized that this shift could be described as the expansion of the SCP-related policy domain in three phases as shown in Table 1. The 1st phase of SCP (SCP1.0) mainly addressed pollution prevention and cleaner production. The 2nd phase of SCP (SCP 2.0) emphasized increasing efficiency throughout the lifecycle of materials, products and services. Then, in the late 2000s, policy discussions in the SCP-related domain transition expanded of include socio-technical systems, infrastructure driving consumption and production (SCP 3.0). They also determined that this expansion could be observed in recent international sustainability policy agendas such as the Paris Agreement, and agreements emerging from the G7 and G20 processes. They further argued that the systematic lifestyles and to 2021 AIRIES 15 Global Environmental Research 25/2021: 015–022 printed in Japan 1-5-2 Wakinohama-kaigandori, Chuo-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo 651-0073, Japan 3 Kansai Research Centre, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, 2108-11 Kamiyamaguchi, Hayama, Kanagawa 240-0115, Japan 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan 2108-11 Kamiyamaguchi, Hayama, Kanagawa 240-0115, Japan *E-mail: hotta@iges.or.jp SCP Policy Design for Socio-technical System Change: Envisioning-based Policy Making (EnBPM) Yasuhiko HOTTA1* Tomohiro TASAKI2, Ryu KOIDE1,2, Satoshi KOJIMA3 and Miho KAMEI4

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