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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.
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Last century, the global economy expanded 30-fold, but global water consumption grew by only six times.

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To achieve effective decoupling, today's linear material flows must become circular.

9 tons per person, per year

The average person on the globe uses 9 tons of resources each year

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Producing electricity causes a quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions

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Emissions from the production of materials as a share of global GHGs increased from 15% in 1995 to 23% in 2015.

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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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A mobile phone contains more than 60 different metals, each in small amounts.

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A global stockpile of 225 million tonnes of copper is estimated to reside in landfills