The willingness of citizens is there 10 3 Introduction: Why we need EU action on Sustainable Resource Management Resource extraction and processing are at the root Under current patterns of production and of the greatest crises of our generation: global consumption, the extraction and use of primary warming, biodiversity loss, water stress, pollution, materials are expected to increase globally, f. [...] The EU is one of the largest stands at an alarming 14.8 tonnes per capita annually, consumers of resources in the world, using between more than double the threshold deemed sustainable 70% and 97% of the ‘safe operating space’ available and just.2 This trend is set to keep rising unless for the whole world, despite only making up 6% of decisive action is taken. [...] The aim should be to close engagement on the global level with the UN meet the basic needs of all in society (in the EU in International Resources Panel towards a Global 2022 22% of the population were at risk of poverty Resource Treaty. [...] The political momentum is there It has also introduced several more specific resource and consumption reduction targets in various The European Parliament has called for the “urgent legislations and packages: need for an overall reduction in resource extraction and use” in its 2015 own-initiative report on resource • The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products efficiency and called for “science-based b. [...] force in May 2022, stated that one of the conditions in There is a need to adopt a more comprehensive and order to achieve its objectives is that the EU’s material coordinated approach to resource management and consumption footprints are significantly decreased to address the transboundary nature of material to bring them into planetary boundaries as soon as consumption and ensure that sustainabl.
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