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Building Natural Capital: How REDD+ can Support a Green Economy: Summary for Policy Makers
(UNEP, 2014)
This summary report highlights key findings from the report of the international resource panel: building natural capital: How REDD+ can support a Green Economy. It should be read in conjunction with the full report.
Assessing Mineral Resources in Society: Metal recycling - Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure - Summary
(2013)
A Product-Centric approach is necessary to promote metals recycling in the 21st century. This means the application of economically viable technology and methods throughout the recovery chain to extract metals from the ...
Food Systems and Natural Resources: Summary for Policy Makers
(2016)
The IRP Food Systems and Natural Resources report assesses the current status and dynamics of natural resource use in food systems and their environmental impacts, identifying opportunities to move towards more resource-smart ...
Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth - Summary
(2011)
Humankind has witnessed phenomenal economic and social development in the past century. However, there are increasing signs that it has come at a cost to the environment and to the availability of cheap resources. Despite ...
Unlocking the Sustainable Potential of Land Resources: Evaluating Systems, Strategies and Tools - Summary for Policymakers
(2016)
Better matching of land use with its sustainable potential is a “no-regrets” strategy for sustainably increasing agricultural production on existing land, targeting restoration efforts to where they are likely to be most ...
Unlocking the Sustainable Potential of Land Resources: Evaluating Systems, Strategies and Tools - Factsheet
(2016)
Better matching of land use with its sustainable potential is a “no-regrets” strategy for sustainably increasing agricultural production on existing land, targeting restoration efforts to where they are likely to be most ...
Food Systems and Natural Resources: Building Resource-Smart Food Systems for Sustainable Development - Factsheet
(2016)
Food systems fundamentally depend on natural resources, such as land, soil, water, biodiversity, minerals, biomass and fossil fuels. Key statistics show that in many cases these resources are not currently managed sustainably ...
Food Systems and Natural Resources: Building Resource-Smart Food Systems for Sustainable Development - Infographic
(2016)
This document highlights findings from the report on "Food Systems and Natural Resources" and should be read in conjunction with the full report.
Land Restoration for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: An International Resource Panel Think Piece - Factsheet
(2019)
This International Resource Panel (IRP) Think Piece concludes that both the process of land restoration and rehabilitation, and the restored land, can have significant co-benefits for all the SDGs.
Metal Recycling: Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure
(2013)
This report discusses how to increase metal-recycling rates – and thus resource efficiency from both quantity and quality viewpoints. The discussion is based on data about recycling input, and the technological infrastructure ...