33. 亚太区域正处于防止工业化和城市化的转折点，工业化和城市化将导致不可逆转的资源枯竭和环境退化，进而危及经济和社会的长期发展。亚太区域在制定有利于可持续消费和生产的政策方面取得了一定的进展，但巨大的物质足迹和薄弱的废物回收和预防系统已经形成真正的挑战。亚太经社会继续强调资源效率概念的核心地位，认为这是推动环境可持续性和可持续消费和生产模式的一个重要办法。2021 年，第八届亚太可持续发展论坛通过编写可持续发展目标简介和举办圆桌会议，对可持续发展目标 12 进行了深入审议。审议结果表明，该区域的废物回收和预防系统仍然不足以赶上国内生产和消费的速度。此外，亚洲大多数发展中城镇使用露天垃圾场，只有大约 10%的固体废物最终在妥善设计和管理的垃圾填埋场填埋。在此背景下，亚太经社会关于可持续发展目标本土化的项目帮助柬埔寨、斐济、菲律宾和泰国的四个城市处理家庭、工业和城市废物管理问题，将其与涉及资源的可持续发展目标，特别是目标 12 相结合并保持一致。32 另一个综合资源管理(城市联系)项目支持 12 个城市，对城市地区自然资源的可持续管理采取水-能源-粮食/土地综合办法。33 印度尼西亚、马来西亚、泰国和越南的“闭环”项目侧重于解决塑料废物从城市泄漏到海洋环境的问题，并帮助提高再利用和再循环的回收率。34 在机构一级，亚太经社会正在设立东南亚国家联盟(东盟)资源小组，作为东盟共同体 2025 年愿景的一部分。
33. The Asia-Pacific region is at a turning point in preventing industrialization and urbanization that will lead to irreversible resource depletion and environmental degradation, which will in turn endanger economic and social development in the long term. While there is some progress towards policies conducive to sustainable consumption and production, the large material footprint and weak waste recovery and prevention systems in the Asia-Pacific region pose real challenges. ESCAP continued to emphasize the centrality of the concept of resource efficiency as a key approach to spearheading environmental sustainability and sustainable consumption and production patterns. In 2021, at the eighth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development, an in-depth review of Sustainable Development Goal 12 was undertaken by preparing a Sustainable Development Goal profile and holding a round table. The deliberations revealed that the waste recovery and prevention systems in the region still remained insufficient for the rate of domestic production and consumption. Moreover, the majority of growing Asian towns and cities use open dump sites, and only approximately 10 per cent of solid waste ends up in properly engineered and managed landfill sites. Against this background, the ESCAP project on localizing the Sustainable Development Goals helped four cities in Cambodia, Fiji, the Philippines and Thailand to deal with household, industrial and municipal waste management by integrating and aligning with resource-related Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goal 12.32 Another project on integrated resource management (urban nexus) supported 12 cities with a water-energy-food/land integrated approach to the sustainable management of natural resources in urban areas.33 The “Closing the Loop” project in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Viet Nam was focused on addressing the leakage of plastic waste into the marine environment from cities and helping to increase the recovery rate for reuse and recycling.34 At the institutional level, ESCAP is in the process of setting up the Resource Panel of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as part of the ASEAN Community Vision 2025.