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Neil Coles
Team Leader
Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP)

Neil is a Team Leader and Project Director at the Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP), working on diverse projects with civil society organisations, research institutions, industry and policy-makers. His focus is on behavioural change and values shifts towards sustainable lifestyles - addressing people within their social and cultural contexts. He believes mind-set change is at the heart of a move to a more sustainable society. His current projects include an EU wide project addressing sustainability of supermarket own brands, tools for developing sustainable product portfolios and approaches for city based consumption hotspots. He is a participant of the UNEP 10YFP Sustainable Lifestyles expert group and the steering group for the international network of product sustainability initiatives (INPSI).