How can developing countries benefit from SCP?
The way goods and services are produced and consumed have become unsustainable. Developed and rapidly developing countries are characterized by a rate of using natural resources that, in many cases, has gone beyond the ‘carrying capacity’ of ecosystems, which causes a continued deterioration of the global environment. Furthermore, developing countries not only face the environmental consequences of global impacts caused by industrial development (such as pollution or lack of adequate technologies), but also face problems related to lack of access to their natural resources, and are more vulnerable to pollution and natural disasters. Such communities also suffer social disparities, which have prevented them from real development in terms of human, natural, and economic capital. SCP is the production and use of goods and services that meet basic needs and bring a better quality of life while sustainably using natural resources throughout the goods and services’ life cycle and decreasing
