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Ms Merlyn Van Voore has been appointed Head of the Secretariat of the International Resource Panel. She took up duty on 17 February 2020. The International Resource Panel was launched by the United Nations Environment Programme in 2007 to build and share the knowledge needed to improve our use of resources worldwide. The Panel consists of eminent scientists, highly skilled in resource management issues. Their reports distill the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic findings around global resource use. They provide

2019 has been a big year for resource efficiency. The International Resource Panel's findings on natural resource use have been referred to and used in policymaking at international, regional, and national levels. Here is a quick overview of the work we did in 2019. Download the IRP's 2019 Highlights flyer: irp_2019_highlights.pdf

This week, the International Resource Panel (IRP) presented new work on the connections between resources and climate at the COP25 in Madrid. The IRP Summary for Policymakers “ Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future” was officially launched on 11 December 2019 at an event hosted by the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea Protection of Italy. Co-chair Izabella Teixeira and lead author Edgar Hertwich presented the results of this work at five side

The International Resource Panel, meeting in Bled, Slovenia, this month, endorsed a range of new study areas, and welcomed a new country to its Steering Committee. These included the socioeconomic implications of resource efficiency and circular economy measures, a two-year research project into the role of resources in environmental displacement and migration, development of an assessment report on finance for sustainable resource use, work on remanufacturing in the consumer and electronic goods sectors, and developing scientifically sound and implementable science