Sustainable Trade in Resources: Global Material Flows, Circularity and Trade

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.authorInternational Resource Panel
dc.contributor.organizationEconomy Division
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-13T13:30:33Z
dc.date.available2020-11-13T13:30:33Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionThe purpose of this discussion paper is to enhance understanding among trade and environment policymakers regarding trade flows of material resources – including their environmental impacts – and regarding trade’s potential to contribute to the transition to a greener, more circular economy. The paper summarises the IRP’s analysis on so-called upstream requirements of trade flows, drawing on the IRP reports International Trade in Resources (2015), Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity (2016), Sustainable Natural Resource Use (2017) and Global Resources Outlook (2019). It uses updated data to 2017 on trade flows and on the raw material equivalents of trade flows derived from the IRP Global Material Flows Database. The paper builds on the work of UNEP’s Environment and Trade Hub to offer policy implications focusing on the role of trade in moving production and consumption away from linear to more circular models.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/34344
dc.languageEnglish
dc.page.number80 p.
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectinternational trade
dc.subjectresource exploration
dc.subjectresource efficiency
dc.subjecttrade agreement
dc.subjectgreen economy
dc.subjectcircular economy
dc.subjectenergy resource
dc.subjectdeveloping country
dc.titleSustainable Trade in Resources: Global Material Flows, Circularity and Tradeen
dc.typeCommunication or other resource

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