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At the 15 th Meeting of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Eurostat, the International Resource Panel (IRP) and the UN Statistics Division (UNSD) presented a global manual entitled “ The use of natural resources in the economy: A Global Manual on Economy Wide Material Flow Accounting”. The final document is launched today. The Manual provides practical guidance on economy-wide material flows accounting (EW-MFA) and addresses various issues revolving around extraction-based

The 27 th Meeting of the International Resource Panel (IRP) took place virtually from 31 May to 4 June 2021. The opening remarks were delivered by the head of UNEP’s New York Office, Dr. Ligia Noronha who commended the work of the IRP in setting the agenda globally on natural resource management and promoting the mainstreaming of circularity and resource efficiency. She raised some key questions for the Panel to consider in its new strategic plan: What are the resource

As part of the scenario co-development process that informs the scenario modeling work for the Global Resources Outlook 2023, the International Resource Panel (IRP) held eight webcast episodes between 10 May and 10 June 2021. During these webcasts, leading thinkers from around the world presented on a variety of topics, ranging from food to mobility and from demography to income inequality. They discussed with participants on what they see on the horizon with regard to possible and plausible futures, what are

Building on the findings of the joint task group of the International Resource Panel and the One Planet network presented in the report “Catalysing science-based policy action on sustainable consumption and production: the value-chain approach and its application to food, construction and textiles”, the One Planet network is holding consultations to collectively define a common agenda for action. The aim is now to continue the application of the value-chain approach in the high-impact sectors of food, construction and plastics and