Sustainable development is firmly anchored in the European Treaties and has been at the heart of European policy for a long time. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable...
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Demand for water, food, energy, land and minerals is rising substantially, making natural resources increasingly scarce and more expensive.
In 1950 there were 5,600m2 of arable land per person, if present trends continue, by 2050, this might be reduced to only 1,500m. Demography; Geopower; Consumerism...
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...
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...
Unless consumers' behaviour and consumption patterns change, by 2030, demand for food, water and energy will increase by approximately 35%, 40% and 50% respectively, compared to 2012...
Source: EIA, International Energy Outlook 2017, p 19
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...
InfoMEA, Multilateral Environmental Treaties more than 50 global and regional treties and protocols (2018) Geo Human Planet Initiative: Spatial Modelling of Impact, Exposure and Access...
EU Sustainable Development Goals - European Commission portal EC Bioeconomy Knowledge Centre, (BKC) Critical Raw Materials portal EU Methodology for Critical...