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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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The use of natural resources has more than tripled since 1970, and continues to grow.

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Compact, resource-efficient cities could see cuts of 36-54 per cent in GHG emissions, and in metals, land, energy and water use.

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

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From 2000 to 2015, the climate change and health impacts from extraction and production of metals doubled.

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Under business as usual conditions, by 2040, plastic leakage to the ocean is set to nearly triple 
 

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Up to one-third of the global population is already subject to water stress.

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

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An estimated 33 per cent of the world’s soil is moderately to highly degraded.