RT Report
T1 Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A2 Hertwich, Edgar
A2 Lifset, Reid
A2 Pauliuk, Stefan
A2 Heeren, Niko
K1 climate change
K1 material
K1 material efficiency
K1 resource efficiency
K1 energy efficiency
K1 low carbon economy
K1 greenhouse gas
K1 motor vehicle emission
K1 building
K1 light duty vehicle
K1 energy policy
SN 978-92-807-3771-4
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/34351
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/34351
NO This report addresses the opportunities for material efficiency in homes and cars of the G7, with results also shown for China and India. We chose to focus the assessment on specific, widely used products because only a product-level assessment is able to (a) track materials to estimate recycling potential and (b) model the functioning of the products and thus the potential trade-off between material efficiency and energy efficiency. The focus of the study is on the two product systems and the services they provide. It captures changes in patterns of use and provisioning systems, such as a potential move towards shared, car-based mobility systems instead of individually owned vehicles but does not address larger, societal changes (such as the replacement of cars by public transport or autonomous vehicles). The two product systems are studies in isolation, although the findings point to important interactions.
NO https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3542680
NO https://www.unep.org/resources/report/resource-efficiency-and-climate-change-material-efficiency-strategies-low-carbon
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026