The majority of resources used today are non-renewable and are set to become increasingly scarce given rising demand and unsustainable consumption patterns. Global material extraction...
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By 2040, more than 1 billion households and 11 billion smart appliances could be part of the interconnected electricity systems. The digitalization of the energy system can considerably...
Desalination only provides 1% of the world's drinking water via 18,000 desalination plants using either thermal evaporation or membrane separation. New technologies create lower...
The share of renewables in the power mix could rise from 25% today to 40% or even 66% in 2040. In 2017, only 12.1% of global power came from clean sources...
If present trends continue, human demand on the Earth's ecosystem is projected to exceed nature's capacity to regenerate by about 75% by 2020, and by 100% (meaning that we would...
E3ME - energy-environment-economy is a macroeconometric model for Europe, widely used for policy assessment, forecasting and research purposes Co-extinction - simulated scenrios assessing co-extinction potential...
EU Sustainable Development Goals - European Commission portal EC Bioeconomy Knowledge Centre, (BKC) Critical Raw Materials portal EU Methodology for Critical...
Resources should be at the top of the agenda of multilateral cooperation for meeting the SDGs and addressing anthropogenic climate change. | Related Megatrends: Climate and environment; Geopower; Natural...
While scarcity of resources is still a threat, we also have generativity of new ideas, technologies and alternative resources. The interplay of energy security and markets, technologies and policies...
Research for less polluting, abundant and more efficient alternative materials should be encouraged.