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The International Resource Panel and a number of partners have developed a new online tool that that allows countries to see “hotspots” of unsustainable practices in consumption and production. The tool was launched at the fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. Known as the Sustainable Consumption and Production Hotspots Analysis Tool, the online application analyses the environmental and socio-economic performance of 171 countries over the past 25 years to provide scientific evidence of areas

Remanufacturing, refurbishment, repair and reuse will all be on the agenda when the International Resource Panel presents a workshop on its report, Redefining Value – the Manufacturing Revolution, at the World Resources Forum in Antwerp, Belgium, on 25 February. Panel member Nabil Nasr, lead author of the report and Director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Founder of the Institute’s Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery, will discuss value retention process in the

The International Resource Panel's Co-Chair Izabella Teixeira addressed the Senior Officials Meeting in Tokyo on 12-13 Fenruary as part of the preparations for the G20 Meeting of Environment Ministers to be held in Japan later this year. Mrs Teixeira spoke about the imperatives for resource efficiency, outlined some of the findings of the Panel's forthcoming Global Resources Outlook 2019 report (to be released in March), and reiterated the links between climate change and resource efficieny. The Senior Officials Meeting was

International Resource Panel Co-Chair Janez Potocnik will take part in a roundtable discussion hosted by the Science-Based Targets Network at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. The aim of the roundtable is to share progress, align science-based target action for the coming year, and explore how active partner engagement could accelerate this work. Dr Potocnik will present a thinkpiece, jointly prepared by the Panel and the Forum, entitled "Why Natural Resources Need to be on our Dashboard for a