News
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16 February 2018Modern Diplomacy covers The Weight of Cities summary launch
Leading European opinion and analysis magazine 'Modern Diplomacy' featured news of the International Resource Panel's 'The Weight of Cities' summary report. Read more here.
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25 January 2018Panel and World Economic Forum working together on resource security
Against the backdrop of a new partnership agreed between the World Economic Forum, UN Environment and the International Resource Panel, the Panel’s Co-Chair, Janez Potočnik, attended the Forum’s 2018 Stewardship Board Meeting on Environment and...
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24 January 2018Push to pick up the pace on the circular economy
UN Environment has entered into a new agreement with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to scale up and accelerate the shift towards a circular economy, a key area of interest for the International Resource Panel. Announced today at the World...
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04 December 2017The Weight of Cities
The International Resource Panel's cities work is the subject of an article in UN Environment's Our Planet magazine, released to coincide with the third session of the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. To read the article,...
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16 November 2017New MOOC: A Circular Economy of Metals
Panel member Ester van der Voet is teaching a new massive online open course called A Circular Economy of Metals: Towards a Sustainable Societal Metabolism. The course is now live and anyone interested in recycling of metals is welcome to join...
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08 November 2017IRP present at Raw Materials Week
Peder Jensen, Head of the Secretariat of the International Resource Panel, was a panellist in the opening plenary discussion at the 5th High Level Conference of the European Partnership on Raw Materials in Brussels, Belgium. The conference, the main...
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02 November 2017Focus on resource efficiency in India
Panel member and former co-chair Ashok Khosla took part in the International Conference on Resource Efficiency in New Delhi, India. The conference, hosted by the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Global Business Coalition considered how India...
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01 November 2017Izabella Teixeira becomes Panel co-chair
Former Brazilian Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira has been elected a co-chair of the International Resource Panel. Mrs Teixeira led Brazil’s delegation at the negotiations of the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015, and she was a leader...
