This decision includes: Decision 14/1: Africa’s post Rio+20 strategy for sustainable development; Decision 14/2: Strengthening and upgrading the United Nations Environment Programme; Decision 14/3: Review of the action ...

The International Resource Panel was established in 2007 to provide independent, scientific assessment on the sustainable use of natural resources and the impacts of resource use over the full life cycle.

The overall message is that the environmental consequences of traditional models of development are undermining development itself. The second section of this paper summarises critical environmental trends. The third section ...

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 ...

Environmental challenges and lifestyle choices are defining issues of our time. The concept of circularity allows us to operationalize the inclusive green economy: how to reduce and eliminate waste and pollution through ...

purpose of the strategy is threefold: firstly to catalyse a new approach to national development, with ecosystem restoration being central to development planning and investment; secondly to promote broad and representative ...

The world is experiencing an unprecedented moment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. For us at the International Resource Panel (IRP) it is also a moment to reflect. This document provides policy recommendations extracted ...

In this chapter, we de ne the vision used for the scenario analysis of GEO-6, taking a long-term perspective, beyond 2030. This vision uses the SDGs as an overarching, integrated set of goals and targets to start from, ...