On 27 January 2017, the German National Network for Sustainable Consumption has held its constitutive meeting at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Building, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. 3 Federal ministries together want to use this platform for the exchange with civil society and to develop strategies for the implementation of the SDG 12 (Responsible consumption and production). The Umweltbundesamt (German Federal Environmental Agency) in Dessau assumes the coordinating function as a competence center.