<p>This report concludes that there is evidence from a number of countries and businesses that pursuing an aggressive SCP agenda need not impact negatively on competitiveness and economic growth.</p>
<p>Many initiatives and experiments over the last two decades have shown the kinds of economic, social and environmental benefits which SCP approaches can achieve.</p>
<p>However, given the slow progress to date in scaling up and replicating these initiatives, renewed political, economic and technological commitments to these approaches are required.</p>
<p>The approaches themselves are well understood, and include fiscal and regulatory reforms that internalize the costs of damage to natural resources and the environment, thereby facilitating the accelerated adoption of lifestyles and systems of production based on waste minimization, product life extension, extended producer responsibility, reuse, recycling, remanufacturing and other methods that effectively conserve resources and reduce pollution, thereby improving human well-being over the long term.</p>
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