Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future we want - Factsheet

Over the past five decades, our global population has doubled, the extraction of materials has tripled and gross domestic product has quadrupled. The extraction and processing of natural resources has accelerated over the last two decades, and accounts for more than 90 per cent of our biodiversity loss and water stress and approximately half of our climate change impacts. Over these last 50 years we have not once experienced a prolonged period of stabilization or a decline in global material demand.