Responsible Resource Management for a Sustainable World

This report, Responsible Resource Management for a Sustainable World, brings together highlights of five previous reports to enable policy-makers and business leaders to begin decoupling economic activity from resource use to allow the global economy to operate within the limits of the Earth’s resources.

Reports covered in the synopsis include: A) Priority products and materials: assessing the environmental impacts of consumption and production; B) Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth; C) Metal Stocks in Society; D) Recycling Rates of Metals; and E) Assessing biofuels: towards sustainable production and use of resources.