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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...

  • Policy Options to Eliminate Additional Marine Plastic Litter

    The think piece provides policy options to reduce marine plastic litter and achieve the Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, which voluntarily commits G20 countries to “reduce additional pollution...

    Policy Options to Eliminate Additional Marine Plastic Litter

    The think piece provides policy options to reduce marine plastic litter and achieve the Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, which voluntarily commits G20 countries to “reduce additional pollution...

  • Building Biodiversity

    To the world’s efforts to restore and regenerate nature, IRP Co-Chairs Janez Potočnik and Izabella Teixeira add the single-biggest missing piece: natural resource management.

    Building Biodiversity

    To the world’s efforts to restore and regenerate nature, IRP Co-Chairs Janez Potočnik and Izabella Teixeira add the single-biggest missing piece: natural resource management.

  • Resource Efficiency and Climate Change

    This report conducts a rigorous assessment of the contribution of material efficiency to GHG abatement strategies. More concretely, it assesses the reduction potential of GHG emissions...

    Resource Efficiency and Climate Change

    This report conducts a rigorous assessment of the contribution of material efficiency to GHG abatement strategies. More concretely, it assesses the reduction potential of GHG emissions...

  • 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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    Halting biodiversity loss means that cropland expansion will need to stop.

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    Mineral Resource Governance in the 21st Century

    The mining sector, if carefully managed, presents enormous opportunities for advancing sustainable development particularly in low-income countries, the International Resource Panel...

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    Mineral Resource Governance in the 21st Century

    The mining sector, if carefully managed, presents enormous opportunities for advancing sustainable development particularly in low-income countries, the International Resource Panel...

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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...

  • 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...

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