
Resource efficiency and circular economy create jobs and deliver better socio-economic and environmental outcomes than business as usual.

Dietary changes may soon override population growth as the major driver of land needs for food.

For some specialty metals used in mobile phones and solar cells recycling rates are less than 1%.

Growing and harvesting biomass contributed over 90% to total global biodiversity loss and water stress.
Policy should target the sectors that are mainly responsible: food related sectors (agriculture, retailers, and food services), wood related industries (forestry, construction) and increasingly biochemicals.

11 million tonnes of plastic are discharged into the ocean annually.

We need to restore 350 million hectares of degraded landscapes by 2030 to meet global targets.

The expansion of green areas in cities can potentially contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, heat and flood mitigation, erosion reduction and carbon capture.

60 billion tonnes of construction minerals, ores and industrial minerals, fossil fuels and biomass are extracted each year