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Today marks World Environment Day, the UN's international day to recognise the role of the environment in our lives and how we need a shift in our lifestyle to accommodate...

Healthier, more sustainable and more equitable food systems have a key role to deliver progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study aims...

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

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...

Globally, the absolute number of undernourished people has been on the rise since 2014, reaching an estimated 821 million people (some 11% of the population) in 2017. In 2017, some...

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...

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...

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.

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...