Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want: summary for policymakers published by United Nations (3/2019)
The secretariat has the honour to present, set out in the annex to the present note, the summary for policymakers of the report of the International Resource Panel entitled Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want. The report was prepared in response to resolution 2/8 of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme, on sustainable consumption and production, in which the Environment Assembly invited the International Resource Panel to make available reports relevant to the resolution, including on the state, trends and outlook of sustainable consumption and production, to a future meeting of the Environment Assembly, but not later than 2019. The International Resource Panel report Assessing Global Resource Use: A Systems Approach to Resource Efficiency and Pollution Reduction was submitted to the Environment Assembly at its third session as an initial response to resolution 2/8. The Assembly welcomed that report in its resolution 3/4, on environment and health, in which it also welcomed further work by the Panel on the status and trends of natural resource use and management and their links with pollution and other environmental impacts, as well as on the identification of options for enhancing sustainable management of natural resources, and encouraged the Panel to make available reports to be considered, as relevant, at the sessions of the Environment Assembly.
