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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.

  • Making Climate Targets Achievable

    To the world’s efforts to address climate change, IRP Co-Chairs Janez Potočnik and Izabella Teixeira add an indispensable missing piece: resource efficiency strategies to reduce and...

    Making Climate Targets Achievable

    To the world’s efforts to address climate change, IRP Co-Chairs Janez Potočnik and Izabella Teixeira add an indispensable missing piece: resource efficiency strategies to reduce and...

  • IRP Building Resilient Societies after Covid-19
    IRP Building Resilient Societies after Covid-19

    Building Resilient Societies after the Covid-19 Pandemic

    This document provides policy recommendations extracted from IRP research over the past 10 years to drive a resource smart recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, generating socio-...

    IRP Building Resilient Societies after Covid-19

    Building Resilient Societies after the Covid-19 Pandemic

    This document provides policy recommendations extracted from IRP research over the past 10 years to drive a resource smart recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, generating socio-...

  • Natural Resource Use in the Group of 20: Status, trends, and solutions

    Dissemination materials from the International Resource Panel

    Natural Resource Use in the Group of 20: Status, trends, and solutions

    Dissemination materials from the International Resource Panel

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    Global Resources Outlook

    Through a combination of resource efficiency, climate mitigation, carbon removal, and biodiversity protection policies, this report finds that it is feasible and possible to grow...

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    Global Resources Outlook

    Through a combination of resource efficiency, climate mitigation, carbon removal, and biodiversity protection policies, this report finds that it is feasible and possible to grow...

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    Re-defining Value – The Manufacturing Revolution

    Re-thinking how we manufacture industrial products and deal with them at the end of their useful life could provide breakthrough environmental, social and economic benefits. Adopting...

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    Re-defining Value – The Manufacturing Revolution

    Re-thinking how we manufacture industrial products and deal with them at the end of their useful life could provide breakthrough environmental, social and economic benefits. Adopting...

  • • Photo, report cover and this page: Adaptation of the image ‘Vision of a Post Fossil African City’ by Karl Schulschenk and Blake Robinson. The original image was part of a series awarded a top 10 position in the Post Fossil Cities Competition, and was on
    • Photo, report cover and this page: Adaptation of the image ‘Vision of a Post Fossil African City’ by Karl Schulschenk and Blake Robinson. The original image was part of a series awarded a top 10 position in the Post Fossil Cities Competition, and was on

    The Weight of Cities

    We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shift future urbanization on to a more environmentally sustainable and socially just path. The Weight of Cities suggests a new approach to...

    • Photo, report cover and this page: Adaptation of the image ‘Vision of a Post Fossil African City’ by Karl Schulschenk and Blake Robinson. The original image was part of a series awarded a top 10 position in the Post Fossil Cities Competition, and was on

    The Weight of Cities

    We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shift future urbanization on to a more environmentally sustainable and socially just path. The Weight of Cities suggests a new approach to...

  • Did you know?

    Renewables cause significantly lower pollution, but have a higher demand for structural materials

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  • Assessing Global Resource Use

    Better and more efficient production and use of natural resources can be one of the most cost-efficient and effective ways to reduce impacts on the environment (including pollution)...

    Assessing Global Resource Use

    Better and more efficient production and use of natural resources can be one of the most cost-efficient and effective ways to reduce impacts on the environment (including pollution)...

  • Resource Efficiency

    This report analyzes four paths that countries could take over the next three decades, ranging from business as usual to a scenario where countries adopt both ambitious climate...

    Resource Efficiency

    This report analyzes four paths that countries could take over the next three decades, ranging from business as usual to a scenario where countries adopt both ambitious climate...

  • Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity (with database link)

    Growing concern about assuring affordable, equitable and environmentally sustainable access to natural resources is well founded. In this report we show global natural resource use...

    Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity (with database link)

    Growing concern about assuring affordable, equitable and environmentally sustainable access to natural resources is well founded. In this report we show global natural resource use...

  • Decoupling 2

    This report explores technological possibilities and opportunities for both developing and developed countries to accelerate decoupling and reap the environmental and economic benefits...

    Decoupling 2

    This report explores technological possibilities and opportunities for both developing and developed countries to accelerate decoupling and reap the environmental and economic benefits...

  • Options for Decoupling Economic Growth from Water Use and Water Pollution

    To head off a looming water crisis, meet demand, and sustain growth and human wellbeing, decoupling water from economic growth is essential. The report shows a package of policy and...

    Options for Decoupling Economic Growth from Water Use and Water Pollution

    To head off a looming water crisis, meet demand, and sustain growth and human wellbeing, decoupling water from economic growth is essential. The report shows a package of policy and...

  • Green Energy Choices: the Benefits, Risks and Trade-Offs of Low-Carbon Technologies for Electricity Production

    Low-carbon electricity generation could help meet demand while reducing climate change effects. But new technologies could create new environmental problems. This report aids informed...

    Green Energy Choices: the Benefits, Risks and Trade-Offs of Low-Carbon Technologies for Electricity Production

    Low-carbon electricity generation could help meet demand while reducing climate change effects. But new technologies could create new environmental problems. This report aids informed...

  • Did you know?

    We lose 24 billion tonnes of fertile soil and 15 billion trees a year, at a cost of $40 billion.

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  • Policy Coherence of the Sustainable Development Goals

    Policy Coherence of the Sustainable Development Goals

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    Picture: Freeimages/Nikolaus Wogen

    Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles

    Metal production is responsible for 7-8% of global energy use as well severe environmental impacts. Recycling would decrease both, but even if recycling increased, rising global demand...

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    Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles

    Metal production is responsible for 7-8% of global energy use as well severe environmental impacts. Recycling would decrease both, but even if recycling increased, rising global demand...

  • Metal Recycling

    A global move to a Product-Centric approach, in which recycling targets specific components of a product and devises ways to separate and recover them, is essential. This report...

    Metal Recycling

    A global move to a Product-Centric approach, in which recycling targets specific components of a product and devises ways to separate and recover them, is essential. This report...

  • City-Level Decoupling

    Most resource consumption takes place in cities. How a city is designed shapes how its inhabitants use transport, energy and water, and dispose of waste. The challenge is to build...

    City-Level Decoupling

    Most resource consumption takes place in cities. How a city is designed shapes how its inhabitants use transport, energy and water, and dispose of waste. The challenge is to build...

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    Picture: Shutterstock

    Responsible Resource Management for a Sustainable World

    This report brings together highlights of five previous reports to enable policy-makers and business leaders to begin decoupling economic activity from resource use to allow the global...

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    Responsible Resource Management for a Sustainable World

    This report brings together highlights of five previous reports to enable policy-makers and business leaders to begin decoupling economic activity from resource use to allow the global...

  • Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth

    We are using unsustainable amounts of the Earth’s natural resources. We need to improve the rate of resource productivity (“doing more with less”) faster than the economic growth rate...

    Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth

    We are using unsustainable amounts of the Earth’s natural resources. We need to improve the rate of resource productivity (“doing more with less”) faster than the economic growth rate...

  • Did you know?

    We lose 24 billion tonnes of fertile soil and 15 billion trees a year, at a cost of $40 billion.

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  • Picture: Freeimages/DAREK KRZEMINSKI
    Picture: Freeimages/DAREK KRZEMINSKI

    Metal Stocks in Society

    A key question that relates to the very broad and intensive use of metals is whether society needs to be concerned about long-term supplies of any or many of them. To examine this...

    Picture: Freeimages/DAREK KRZEMINSKI

    Metal Stocks in Society

    A key question that relates to the very broad and intensive use of metals is whether society needs to be concerned about long-term supplies of any or many of them. To examine this...

  • Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production

    This report gives a scientific assessment of which global environmental problems present the biggest challenges, and weighs up the impacts of various economic activities to identify...

    Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production

    This report gives a scientific assessment of which global environmental problems present the biggest challenges, and weighs up the impacts of various economic activities to identify...

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