Demand for water, food, energy, land and minerals is rising substantially, making natural resources increasingly scarce and more expensive.
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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.Estimates...
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.
FIDELIO, Fully Interregional Dynamic Econometric Long-term Input-Output Model
International Monetary Fund, A shifting global economic landscape,(2017). German Institute for Economic Research, Shrinking share of middle-income group in Germany and the US (full report), (2016)...
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