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T1 Making Infrastructure Resource Efficient - Policy Brief October 2019
A1 Sustainable Infrastructure Partnership (SIP), 
A1 Development Corridors Partnerships, 
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 building
K1 energy resource
K1 waste
K1 climate change
K1 energy efficiency
K1 resource conservation
K1 natural resource
K1 urbanization
K1 industrialization
K1 physical infrastructure
K1 Buildings
K1  Energy Efficiency
K1 Waste management
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/32687
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/32687
NO This policy brief, Making Infrastructure Resource Efficient, identifies a critical need to decouple economic growth from the extraction and use of natural resources. Infrastructure development is particularly resource intensive, and in 2015 the construction sector alone accounted for half of the global material footprint. Increasing the resource efficiency of infrastructure can be a major driver of the transition to sustainable development. It is now vital that policymakers and planners recognize the interlinkages between natural resources, material resource use, and the diverse and complex systems of infrastructure that are required to support economic and human development.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 25, 2026