Making Infrastructure Resource Efficient - Policy Brief October 2019

This policy brief, Making Infrastructure Resource Efficient, identifies a critical need to decouple economic growth from the extraction and use of natural resources. Infrastructure development is particularly resource intensive, and in 2015 the construction sector alone accounted for half of the global material footprint. Increasing the resource efficiency of infrastructure can be a major driver of the transition to sustainable development. It is now vital that policymakers and planners recognize the interlinkages between natural resources, material resource use, and the diverse and complex systems of infrastructure that are required to support economic and human development.

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Source https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/32687
Author Economy Division
Maintainer Economy Division
Last Updated January 25, 2023, 15:26 (UTC)
Created January 25, 2023, 15:26 (UTC)
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Issued 2020-06-09T05:37:26Z
Language English
Modified 2022-10-13 18:36:28.033
Publisher name Economy Division
Theme Briefs, Summaries, Policies and Strategies
data_type document
spatial Global