Climate & Environment
Sustainable Resource Use
Using natural resources at rates within their regeneration and the environment's absorptive capacity.
Definition
Sustainable resource use is the management of natural resources — water, soil, forests, fisheries, minerals, energy — so that extraction and consumption stay within the regenerative capacity of renewable resources and the environment's ability to absorb wastes, while non-renewables are used efficiently with substitutes developed. Global material extraction has tripled in fifty years and drives most biodiversity loss and a large share of emissions, making resource efficiency and decoupling central policy objectives.
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