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Press Release Rich countries use six times more resources, generate 10 times the climate impacts than low-income ones: far exceeding human needs and nature’s capacity Nairobi, 1 March 2024 – Extraction of the Earth’s natural resources tripled in the past five decades, related to the massive build-up of infrastructure in many parts of the world and the high levels of material consumption, especially in upper-middle and high-income countries. Material extraction is expected to rise by 60 per cent by 2060

IRP’s flagship report – The Global Resources Outlook 2024 – is coming soon! The pathway towards sustainability is increasingly steep and narrow, and the window of opportunity is closing. The science is clear: The key question is no longer whether a transformation towards global sustainable resource consumption and production is necessary, but how to make it happen now. Addressing this reality, based on evolving concepts of a just transition, is an essential part of any credible and justifiable way forward

Spotlight discussion - Sustainable raw materials supplies: is the bloc up for the task? Sustainable Future Week - POLITICO From November 14 to 16, POLITICO Live is hosting its fifth annual Sustainability Future Week in Brussels where POLITICO reporters and editors will interview key politicians, scientists, campaigners and business executives to dig into the growing political tensions around the EU’s energy and climate policies. The IRP Panel Co-Chair Izabella Texeira is a guest speaker at a Spotlight discussion on Critical

Online Lab Event of the World Resources Forum 2023 Innovative Partnerships for Responsible Resource Use in Africa- A Summary This session, which took part at the World Resource Forum 2023, was a collaboration of the International Resource Panel (IRP) with the African Development Bank (AfDB). The African Development Bank has a renewed focus on natural resource management in terms of strengthening the pillars of good governance and investment facilitation to create a favourable business environment to attract both domestic and