Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
The Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025, hosted by Consumers International, will focus on solutions that help us to live more sustainably. Tune in throughout the week to hear from leaders around the world, sharing inspiring case stories of change, consumer insights and commitments for impact.
See below for an overview of interactive sessions. Register now as places are limited.
A Just Transition to Sustainable Lifestyles for Consumers
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
Over 94% of consumers are in favour of a shift to more sustainable lifestyles, but more than 80% say they need stronger support from government and business to make this transformation possible.
As we open the Consumers International Summit on the occasion of World Consumer Rights Day, we look at what a just transition to sustainable lifestyles means for consumers around the world. We explore why accessibility, availability and affordability are key drivers to help us live more sustainably.
How do we take action to not only protect our planet, but to strengthen our access to essential consumer rights and needs?
13:00-14:00 CET | 08:00-09:00 EDT | 20:00-21:00 HKT | 23:00-00:00 AEDT
Unwrapping the Plastics Crisis
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
In Western Europe, each person consumes an average of 150kg of plastic annually—more than double the global average of 60kg. According to UN Environment Programme, a combination of policy and market shifts can reduce plastic pollution by as much as 80%.
In this session we centre in on the actions needed to deliver this transition towards a more sustainable, plastic-free economy.
14:00-15:00 CET | 09:00-10:00 EDT | 21:00-22:00 HKT | 00:00-01:00 AEDT
Making Sustainability more Human
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
How can we truly engage consumers on sustainability by connecting to their values and experiences? What is the latest research and practice on shaping behaviours, bridging the intention-action gap, and scaling impact?
Learn practical strategies to make sustainability resonate across diverse consumer segments and drive meaningful change.
15:00-16:00 CET | 10:00-11:00 EDT | 22:00-23:00 HKT | 01:00-02:00 AEDT
Regional Dialogue: Consumers Rights for a Just Transition to Sustainable Lifestyles in Asia and the Pacific
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
10:00-12:00 CET | 05:00-07:00 EDT | 17:00-19:00 HKT | 20:00-22:00 AEDT
Consumers Leading the Charge for Change
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
Consumer power is real – it lives in the choices we make, the collective voice we raise, and the communities we shape. How can we harness consumer power to drive fair access to a safe, sustainable future and ensure the transition is both inclusive and accessible? This session will platform leading initiatives to mobilise consumer voice on sustainable lifestyles, and help us all to be champions for change.
13:00-14:00 CET | 08:00-09:00 EDT | 20:00-21:00 HKT | 23:00-00:00 AEDT
Love Food, Hate Waste
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
Food waste is an environmental failure and a top contributor to climate change and biodiversity loss; a humanitarian failure exacerbating hunger and malnutrition; and a market failure costing over US$1 trillion annually. According to the United Nations Environment Programme, 60% of food waste occurs in the household, while 40% of food waste occurs in food service and retail.
How can we rapidly address mounting food waste while listening to consumers and building bridges between consumer advocates, businesses and policymakers?
14:00-15:00 CET | 09:00-10:00 EDT | 21:00-22:00 HKT | 00:00-01:00 AEDT
Achieving Access to Good Food for All on a Healthy Planet
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
Over one-third of the global population cannot afford a healthy diet, and almost one-in-ten are going hungry. Environmental crisis will increase these numbers, reminding us that sustainable lifestyles need to meet our needs as well as those of the planet.
This session will explore how action on sustainable lifestyles, starting from the consumers’ essential right to food, offers a coherent solution to these interconnected challenges.
15:00-16:00 CET | 10:00-11:00 EDT | 22:00-23:00 HKT | 01:00-02:00 AEDT
Consumer Information for Trust, Safety, and Sustainability
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
More than 50% of us have lost trust in the sustainability information provided to us in the marketplace. Unreliable, misleading or absent consumer information can lead to unsafe practices, erode trust, and perpetuate unsustainable consumption.
How does accurate and transparent information help us to make healthy decisions? We explore best practice examples and the action needed to put greenwashing in the past.
16:00-17:00 CET | 11:00-12:00 EDT | 23:00-00:00 HKT | 02:00-03:00 AEDT
Healthy Urban Futures for People and Planet
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
Environmental pollution is responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths each year. The health impacts of environmental crisis are especially clear in urban areas, which will represent more than two-thirds of the global population by 2050.
What are the win-wins when action on health and environment intersect? How are city-level interventions – driven by consumer insights – unlocking access to healthy and sustainable lifestyles? Join for inspiring stories and next steps for healthier people, cities and planet.
13:00-14:00 CET | 08:00-09:00 EDT | 20:00-21:00 HKT | 23:00-00:00 AEDT
Sustainable Living, Your Way
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
A majority of consumers globally support a shift towards sustainability, but our best efforts and intentions are inhibited by barriers of availability, accessibility, and affordability. Frequently, efforts to change consumer behaviour do not start with the consumer and their interests and needs.
How can businesses and policymakers start with the consumer to make sustainable choices the easy option for us all? What role does consumer insights play in addressing the barriers we face?
14:00-15:00 CET | 09:00-10:00 EDT | 21:00-22:00 HKT | 00:00-01:00 AEDT
Availability, Accessibility, Affordability: Unlocking Dietary Shift
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a shift towards plant-rich diets is the single most influential demand-side action for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Some 68% of consumers worldwide are interested in eating more plant-based food, for reasons of health as well as sustainability, but only 20% regularly do so.
How can sustainable food systems drive healthy diets, making good food more available, accessible and affordable for us all? How can we build better for consumers and farmers? Both the opportunities and challenges will be explored, as well as effective policy approaches to advance protection and empowerment.
15:00-16:00 CET | 10:00-11:00 EDT | 22:00-23:00 HKT | 01:00-02:00 AEDT
Fair Consumption: A Bedrock for Nature and Biodiversity
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
The material footprint of our global consumption is using up natural resources twice as fast as nature can regenerate. As consumers, our livelihoods depend on a realignment of our relationship with nature.
This session explores how we can diversify our dependence on natural resources and achieve global biodiversity goals with consumer rights for access, safety and economic choice.
13:00-14:00 CET | 08:00-09:00 EDT | 20:00-21:00 HKT | 23:00-00:00 AEDT
40 Years of the UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
14:00-15:00 CET | 09:00-10:00 EDT | 21:00-22:00 HKT | 00:00-01:00 AEDT
Gender Justice in the Shift to Sustainable Lifestyles
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
Consumer action towards sustainability has gender-specific nuances, which are often not accounted for in policy or practice. Women drive nearly 80% of household spending decisions worldwide and are often more inclined to make sustainable choices. They are also disproportionately impacted by climate change and natural disasters.
A just transition to sustainable lifestyles means recognising and adapting interventions to our specificities. With leading gender experts we explore case studies of good practice and the role of consumer insights in strengthening gender justice and climate policy.
15:00-16:00 CET | 10:00-11:00 EDT | 22:00-23:00 HKT | 01:00-02:00 AEDT
Empowering Communities to Participate in Clean Energy
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
Around the world, millions face challenges in accessing energy, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where energy costs can be crippling. To support sustainable lifestyles, we need to be empowered to make investment and behavioural choices that lower energy demand. Direct engagement with local communities – across all economies - is a powerful way to do this.
This session will explore practical examples of community-driven solutions and partnerships between local stakeholders in the drive towards the clean energy transition.
16:00-17:30 CET | 11:00-12:30 EDT | 23:00-00:30 HKT | 02:00-03:30 AEDT
Regional Dialogue: Consumers Rights for a Just Transition to Sustainable Lifestyles in Latin America and the Caribbean
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
16:00-18:00 CET | 11:00-13:00 EDT | 23:00-01:00 HKT | 02:00-04:00 AEDT
Raising the Pulse for Sustainable Lifestyles for Consumers in 2025: COP30, UNEA-7, and Beyond
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
In 2025, sustainable lifestyles will be on the agenda at COP30 in Brazil and the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) in Kenya. Countries will have an opportunity to integrate action on sustainable lifestyles into their wider environmental strategies and commitments, combining a much-needed shift in consumption patterns with essential protections for our rights and needs.
What is needed to unlock action at national and global levels? This closing session explores the commitments needed to reach urgent global goals.
14:00-15:30 CET | 09:00-10:30 EDT | 21:00-22:30 HKT | 00:00-01:30 AEDT
Community Action at the Heart of Sustainable Lifestyles
Sustainable Lifestyles Summit 2025
Grassroots, community-led solutions can transform society from the ground up, building powerful alternative models for sustainable lifestyles that put people and planet first. Green Action Week is an annual global campaign that centres on local solutions, is led by consumer organisations around the world, and speaks to the growing demand we see from consumers to live more sustainably.
But what barriers must we break down to drive community action? How can we deepen impact through collaborative solutions? From across Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, we celebrate green action campaigns and explore next steps.
16:00-17:00 CET | 11:00-12:00 EDT | 23:00-00:00 HKT | 02:00-03:00 AEDT