4PLANET IMPACT / ISSUE
High resource extraction
Growing extraction and processing of natural resources drives pressure across climate, biodiversity, land, water and pollution systems.
Why it matters
Material efficiency can reduce pressure per unit of value, but total environmental pressure can still rise if overall material demand grows.
What the sources establish
UNEP's Global Resources Outlook 2024 assesses rising natural-resource use and its links to climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
Source: https://www.unep.org/resources/Global-Resource-Outlook-2024
Published action
No project on this issue has passed the IMPACT publication gate yet. That is not evidence that no work exists.
Known and not established
- Efficiency gains do not automatically reduce total resource use because scale and rebound effects also matter.
- This issue record is source-grounded context, not proof that any particular project, action or intervention is effective.
Sources
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Approaches associated with this problem
No independently reviewed solution comparison is published for this problem.
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