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Demand for water, food, energy, land and minerals is rising substantially, making natural resources increasingly scarce and more expensive.

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...

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...

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...

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Virtual water and other natural resources consumption, as well as pollution impacts should be factored into the price of products (most of all imported products, which should...