Global Resources Outlook 2019
United Nations Environment Programme
Abstract
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 economies, increase well-being and remain within planetary boundaries. The analysis and modelling presented in this report are a first attempt to understand the impacts of our growing resource use, and to develop coherent scenario projections for resource efficiency and sustainable production and consumption that decouple economic growth from environmental degradation.
Topics & Concepts
Planetary boundariesResource efficiencyResource (disambiguation)Natural resource economicsResource consumptionConsumption (sociology)Production (economics)Sustainable developmentEnvironmental degradationResource useEnvironmental economicsEnvironmental resource managementBusinessEnvironmental scienceEconomicsComputer sciencePolitical scienceEcologySocial scienceMacroeconomicsLawSociologyComputer networkBiologyGlobal Energy and Sustainability ResearchClimate Change Policy and Economics