Bend The Trend : Pathways to a Liveable Planet as Resource Use Spikes

The global economy is consuming ever more natural resources. The prevailing resource extraction and use models are a contributing and major causal factor of what is known as the triple planetary crisis (climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution). Moreover, natural resource use is highly unequal and creates strong differences in the distribution of costs and benefits, with the poor particularly disadvantaged throughout the cycle of use. The current model also fails to deliver acceptable human development conditions for many on the planet. Without a systemswide shift towards sustainable resource use, the current trajectories will contribute further to the surpassing of planetary boundaries (Steffen et al. 2015; Rockström et al. 2023) and the inequalities that are characteristic of the global economy. This has also been framed as humanity transgressing a safe operating space. This Global Resources Outlook 2024 report brings together the best available data, modelling and assessments to analyse trends, impacts and distributional effects of resource use. It also describes the potential to turn negative trends around and put humanity on a trajectory towards sustainability.

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