Disclaimers The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. [...] Increasing resource use is the main driver of the triple planetary crises Growing and harvesting biomass, extracting metallic and (last reference year of the previous edition of this report non-metallic minerals and fossil fuels, and processing of (International Resource Panel [IRP] 2019) and 2020 there materials, fuels and food accounts for over 55 per cent of was no absolute decoupling – the imp. [...] older building stocks, regulation and incentives could be set up to accelerate the retrofitting rate of the existing stock of To improve the sustainability of the food system, the Food buildings, which is currently very low.115 and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Moving towards walking, cycling and public the United Nations. [...] Equally in terms of resource demand and related environmental important is the reflection of the true costs of resources footprint, such as wind and some kinds of solar energy, in the structure of the economy and the redirecting of could be given priority. [...] There is a need to explicitly recognize and integrate the use and production of resources at the core of the global While a number of policy recommendations of the sustainability agendas of climate, biodiversity, pollution report have been tried and tested and are well described and land degradation, and to acknowledge the role of in scientific and policy literature and practice, many resource use.
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