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The International Resource Panel's scientific assessments include Decoupling, Cities, Water, Metals, Land and Soils, Food, Trade, Resource Efficiency, Green Technology and Global Materials Flows.

  • The Weight of Cities

    We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shift future urbanization on to a more environmentally sustainable and socially just path. The Weight of Cities suggests a new approach to...

    The Weight of Cities

    We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shift future urbanization on to a more environmentally sustainable and socially just path. The Weight of Cities suggests a new approach to...

  • Assessing Global Resource Use

    Better and more efficient production and use of natural resources can be one of the most cost-efficient and effective ways to reduce impacts on the environment (including pollution)...

    Assessing Global Resource Use

    Better and more efficient production and use of natural resources can be one of the most cost-efficient and effective ways to reduce impacts on the environment (including pollution)...

  • Resource Efficiency

    This report analyzes four paths that countries could take over the next three decades, ranging from business as usual to a scenario where countries adopt both ambitious climate...

    Resource Efficiency

    This report analyzes four paths that countries could take over the next three decades, ranging from business as usual to a scenario where countries adopt both ambitious climate...

  • Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity (with database link)

    Growing concern about assuring affordable, equitable and environmentally sustainable access to natural resources is well founded. In this report we show global natural resource use...

    Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity (with database link)

    Growing concern about assuring affordable, equitable and environmentally sustainable access to natural resources is well founded. In this report we show global natural resource use...

  • Decoupling 2

    This report explores technological possibilities and opportunities for both developing and developed countries to accelerate decoupling and reap the environmental and economic benefits...

    Decoupling 2

    This report explores technological possibilities and opportunities for both developing and developed countries to accelerate decoupling and reap the environmental and economic benefits...

  • Options for Decoupling Economic Growth from Water Use and Water Pollution

    To head off a looming water crisis, meet demand, and sustain growth and human wellbeing, decoupling water from economic growth is essential. The report shows a package of policy and...

    Options for Decoupling Economic Growth from Water Use and Water Pollution

    To head off a looming water crisis, meet demand, and sustain growth and human wellbeing, decoupling water from economic growth is essential. The report shows a package of policy and...

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    Resource efficiency and circular economy create jobs and deliver better socio-economic and environmental outcomes than business as usual.

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  • Green Energy Choices: the Benefits, Risks and Trade-Offs of Low-Carbon Technologies for Electricity Production

    Low-carbon electricity generation could help meet demand while reducing climate change. But new technologies could create new environmental problems. This report aids informed decision...

    Green Energy Choices: the Benefits, Risks and Trade-Offs of Low-Carbon Technologies for Electricity Production

    Low-carbon electricity generation could help meet demand while reducing climate change. But new technologies could create new environmental problems. This report aids informed decision...

  • Policy Coherence of the Sustainable Development Goals

    Policy Coherence of the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles

    Metal production is responsible for 7-8% of global energy use as well severe environmental impacts. Recycling would decrease both, but even if recycling increased, rising global demand...

    Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles

    Metal production is responsible for 7-8% of global energy use as well severe environmental impacts. Recycling would decrease both, but even if recycling increased, rising global demand...

  • City-Level Decoupling

    Most resource consumption takes place in cities. How a city is designed shapes how its inhabitants use transport, energy and water, and dispose of waste. The challenge is to build...

    City-Level Decoupling

    Most resource consumption takes place in cities. How a city is designed shapes how its inhabitants use transport, energy and water, and dispose of waste. The challenge is to build...

  • Metal Recycling

    A global move to a Product-Centric approach, in which recycling targets specific components of a product and devises ways to separate and recover them, is essential. This report...

    Metal Recycling

    A global move to a Product-Centric approach, in which recycling targets specific components of a product and devises ways to separate and recover them, is essential. This report...

  • Responsible Resource Management for a Sustainable World

    This report brings together highlights of five previous reports to enable policy-makers and business leaders to begin decoupling economic activity from resource use to allow the global...

    Responsible Resource Management for a Sustainable World

    This report brings together highlights of five previous reports to enable policy-makers and business leaders to begin decoupling economic activity from resource use to allow the global...

  • Did you know?

    Agriculture uses 70% of fresh water globally. Expansion of crops for biofuels would add to this.

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  • Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth

    We are using unsustainable amounts of the Earth’s natural resources. We need to improve the rate of resource productivity (“doing more with less”) faster than the economic growth rate...

    Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth

    We are using unsustainable amounts of the Earth’s natural resources. We need to improve the rate of resource productivity (“doing more with less”) faster than the economic growth rate...

  • Metal Stocks in Society

    A key question that relates to the very broad and intensive use of metals is whether society needs to be concerned about long-term supplies of any or many of them. To examine this...

    Metal Stocks in Society

    A key question that relates to the very broad and intensive use of metals is whether society needs to be concerned about long-term supplies of any or many of them. To examine this...

  • Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production

    This report gives a scientific assessment of which global environmental problems present the biggest challenges, and weighs up the impacts of various economic activities to identify...

    Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production

    This report gives a scientific assessment of which global environmental problems present the biggest challenges, and weighs up the impacts of various economic activities to identify...

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