The German Federal Environment Minister Jürgen Trittin appealed to the consumers to use their increasing influence on the environment and climate. "Whether car, clothes or food: what we buy and how we produce has enormous influence on the environment". With these words he opened the conference on Sustainable Consumption and Production, which was organised by Ecologic and took place on 16-17 February 2004 in Berlin.

Here you can read the entire press release of the German Federal Environment Ministry [No. 039/04, 16.02.2004, German].

Further information can be found at the event's website.