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Assessing Mineral Resources in Society: Metal recycling - Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure - Infographic
(2013)
A global move to a Product-Centric approach, in which recycling targets specific components of a product and devises ways to separate and recover them, is essential. This report addresses the challenges of recycling ...
Soaring Demand for Metals Calls for Rethink of Recycling Practices, Says International Resource Panel
(2013)
Raising recycling rates through product-centric approach can mitigate negative environmental impacts
International Trade in Resources: A Biophysical Assessment - Summary for Policy Makers
(2015)
This particular report was prepared by the IRP’s Working Group on Environmental Impacts, with the aim to enhance knowledge on the nature, location and size of the environmental impacts of trade. It provides a comprehensive ...
With Around 40% of Resource Extraction and Use Linked to World Trade, New Policies Required to Address Environmental Impacts
(2015)
IRP report finds trade shifting burden of environmental impacts to developing economies
How Metals Determine Our Lives
(2011)
Recycling rates of metals are far lower than potential for reuse. Less than one-third of 60 studied have a recycling rate above 50 per cent, though many are crucial to clean technologies such as batteries for hybrid cars ...
Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles - Factsheet
(2013)
The unique properties of metals make them essential for many applications and future global demand is predicted to increase. Given this relevance the report of UNEP’s International Resource Panel on “Environmental Risks ...
Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles: How Metals Determine Our Lives – Infographic
(2013)
How metals determine our lives
International Trade in Resources: A Biophysical Assessment - Factsheet
(2015)
International trade is indispensable in enabling countries to meet demand for vital resources, which are not available, accessible or affordable domestically. However, it is precisely the attendant impact trade has on ...
Mineral Resource Governance in the 21st Century: Gearing Extractive Industries towards Sustainable Development
(2020)
The report calls for moving beyond the established paradigm of the ‘Social License to Operate’, towards a new governance reference
point that enables public, private and other relevant actors in the extractive sector to ...
Building Resilient Societies after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Messages from the International Resource Panel
(2020)
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 ...