Natural resources

• There will be the use of natural resources for passive ventilation and the use of local geothermal ground conditions for producing electricity and hot water for the resort.
• The European Commission suggests the development of circular economy to reduce pressure on natural resources, stop the biodiversity loss, and reach the climate-neutrality targeted by 2050.
• Corporates across the globe are likely to miss a $1.6trn opportunity if they do not undertake natural capital accounting, such an approach integrates ecosystem-oriented management with economic decision-making and development by placing a financial value on natural resources.
• Within the next 10 years - we could see costs of key technologies fall by 10 times or more, production processes become 10 times more efficient, all while using 90% fewer natural resources and producing up to 100 times less waste.
• With only a narrow window of opportunity to lessen the impacts of climate change and radically reduce the consumption of natural resources, it is essential that EU policymakers reflect upon European citizens frustrations and place sustainability at the forefront of governance.
• Vietnam's Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment predicts that, if emissions remain high, the average temperature in Thua Thien Hue will rise by up to 3.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the 21st century.
• With the world population expected to grow to almost 10 billion by 2050, the agricultural output needs to be more than doubled by 2050 to meet increased demand, while ensuring the sustainability of natural resources and combating climate change.
• The global community finds itself in the midst of a quandary: how to provide adequate nutrition, including higher demand for protein, for a growing population that's expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050 while reducing environmental impacts and utilizing natural resources in a more sustainable way.
• The world's population could swell to 10.9 billion by the end of the century, raising concerns that adding more than 3 billion people to the planet could further deplete natural resources and accelerate global warming.
• A future world with ever declining population centered in urban areas would place far less of a strain on the earth's natural resources In the United States, imagine the only developed nation to grow significantly between 2020 to 2100, achieving a population of 450 million.
• In the coming year and beyond, the beauty industry will navigate the conflicting demands of the naturals-hungry consumer with shrinking natural resources and it will be through harnessing biotech advantages that a new generation of enhanced natural products is created.
• Efforts to satisfy social SDGs with conventional policy tools will come at the price of unsustainable or wasteful use of natural resources such as water, land and energy.
• Climate change is putting more and more pressure on our natural resources and in some cases, could even induce mass migrations that would leave historically populated areas uninhabitable in future years.
• Rising demand for food for meeting the unmet needs of the incessantly growing population across the globe and low availability of natural resources that are non-renewable is expected to fuel the growth of the global biotechnology market.
• The shape of the marine world in 2030 will depend on tri-polar interactions between people, economies and natural resources.
• Over the coming decades, population growth, urbanisation and climate change will increase demand for energy, water, natural resources, buildings and infrastructure.
• Conflict over natural resources presents a serious threat to security and the world needs to understand that killing the environment means killing ourselves.
• Concerns over supply chain risk have increased among some manufacturers because of the potential scarcity of natural resources in coming years.
• Climate change will influence how Canada and other countries manage natural resources in a world of both rising energy consumption and rising climatic risk.
• The next 13 years will see aging populations, increased scarcity of natural resources, climate change, and continued urbanization, globalization, and virtualization.
• The dangers of global climate change, population growth, and general environmental degeneration will trigger and intensify conflict over natural resources across and within national borders in years to come.
• Minimise food losses and reduce impacts on natural resources is critical to food security and inclusive growth for a world population projected to rise from about 7.3 billion to 8.5 billion in 2030 [8].

Last updated: 04 October 2020