Goal 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production

The aims of this research partnership between Melbourne Water and RMIT University is to help prevent aquatic pollution.

Decreasing energy use is a grand challenge facing society. The ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET) is a partnership with Monash University that addresses this challenge by realizing fundamentally new types of electronic conduction without resistance in solid-state systems at room temperature.

Conventional farming in developing countries contributes to climate change and environment deterioration while bringing negative health effects to both farmers and consumers. Arguable it will not solve the problem of food security.

Most litter that ends up in Port Phillip Bay comes from the catchments. Education is an integral tool for achieving long-term change in community behaviors and reducing litter in waterways and the Bay.

This research is concerned with the impacts of Large-Scale Mining (LSM) in Madagascar.

Drops of Wisdom is a three-meter diameter interactive tabletop display commissioned by Water New South Wales for the Warragamba Dam visitor centre.

The air quality project was initiated in 2019 by the US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, and implemented and executed by RMIT University in coordination with UNICEF Vietnam, Saigon Innovation Hub and Clean Air Asia.

This project investigates and proposes a practical solution for the utilisations of the world's excess biosolids in fired-clay bricks.

The City Partnerships Challenge is a United Nations Global Compact contribution to the Multi-Partner Implementation Facility for Sustainable Urban Development (IFSUD) to catalyse effective, coordinated and results based implementation of integrated sustainable urban development solutions.

This project aims to help address the pressing issue of biosolid management in contemporary waste water treatment by developing a disruptive pyrolysis technology that turns otherwise-polluting biosolid waste into multiple smart carbon materials of far-reaching social, environmental and economic benefits.

The Greenhouse and Sustainability Program (GSP) connects multi-disciplined Honours and Masters students with industry partners in real-world problem solving.

This project examines the discourses and practices around corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs among community stakeholders in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

RMIT recognises the important role the education sector can play not only supporting the SDGs agenda, but actually promoting and contributing to the achievement of all 17 Goals.

The Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme (SBC) aims at improving the knowledge of sustainable construction, and to support and mainstream sustainable building solutions.

This project investigates how contemporary public policy and management research and practice shapes environmental governance, and with what effects.

The Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network, hosted at the RMIT’s EU Centre, brings together international and national researchers, policy think tanks and Non-Government Organisations who share a primary interest in enhancing the effective contribution of the EU to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Asia Pacific.

Increasing global populations and changing dietary preferences make it imperative to find a nutritious and sustainable alternative to current animal-based protein sources.

YWaste is an app that facilitates the discounted sale of end-of-day food from quick serve restaurants (QSRs) to consumers, rather than the food going to landfill.

Landcare, a grassroots community-led approach to sustainable land management, began in Australia in 1986.

This ACIAR project aims to use community-based extension to improve farmers livelihoods in western Mindanao (Philippines).