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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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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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Last century we extracted 27 times more ores and minerals, and 34 times more construction materials.

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Low-carbon energy technologies could avoid 17 million tonnes per year of particulate matter.

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Smartphones, flat-screen TVs and USB keys all drive demand for specialty and precious metals.

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Globally, the top 200 recent hydropower developments (2000-2018) are estimated to have displaced between 900,000 and 2 million people (mostly in Asia),as well as giving rise to substantial land-use change since the start of the century.
 

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For only about a third of metals do we have any metal stock in society information at all.

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About one-third of the world’s soils are moderately to highly degraded because of erosion.

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80% of marine pollution originates on land.