EIP RAW MATERIALS ANNUAL CONFERENCE Janez Potočnik Co-Chair International Resource Panel - UNEP Brussels, January 13 th, 2015

POPULATION GROWTH PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION GROWTH THE DOUBLING STORY … LIMITED RESOURCES - FRESH WATER, OCEANS, LAND AND SOIL, CLEAN AIR, RAW MATERIALS, BIODIVERSITY, ECOSYSTEMS, FUEL … TODAY 60% OF ECOSYSTEMS DEGRADED OR USED UNSUSTAINABLY

RESOURCE INTENSIVE MODEL OF PRODUCTION AND LOCK-INS CHANGE OF RESOURCE PRICE TRENDS AND INCREASED PRICE VOLATILITY

RESOURCE INTENSIVE MODEL OF PRODUCTION AND LOCK-INS CHANGE OF RESOURCE PRICE TRENDS AND INCREASED PRICE VOLATILITY COST STRUCTURE – ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL IMPERATIVE IMPORT DEPENDENCY

WEDDING RING: 10 TONNES OF GOLD ORE 10 KILOS OF MOBILE PHONES LESS THAN 10% RECYCLED IN EU MORE THAN 100 MIO EACH YEAR IN THE DRAWERS 2.4 TONNES OF GOLD 25 TONNES OF SILVER 1 TONNE OF PALLADIUM 900 TONNES OF COPPER

END OF LIFE RECYCLING RATE (GLOBAL) FOR 62 METALS UNEP EVALUATION JANUARY, 2010 >50% >25-50% >10-25% 1-10% <1% ???

ONLY 30% OF WEEE COLLECTED IS PROPERLY RECYCLED LESS THAN 1% OF THE CRITICAL RAW MATERIALS IN WEEE IS RECOVERED OUT OF THAT 30% LESS THAN 15% OF PRECIOUS METALS ARE RECOVERED RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS WORKS WELL FOR HIGH VOLUME MATERIALS IN LESS COMPLEX PRODUCTS (STEEL, PLASTIC, PAPER)

Copyright: Tesla NOR NEW TECHNOLOGIES ONLY...NOT JUST INCREMENTAL EFFICIENCY GAINS...

RESPONDING TO FINANCIAL CRISIS IS NECESSARY, BUT NOT SUFFICIENT FOR ADDRESSING THE PROBLEMS OF GLOBALISATION AND IMPROVING COMPETITIVENES ARE OUR ANSWERS APPROPRIATE (FOCUS ON ENERGY PRICE OR EFFICIENCY) GETTING ALL STAKEHOLDERS ON BOARD: RESOURCE EFFICIENCY ROUNDTABLE PROGRAMME FOR CHANGE: RESOURCE EFFICIENCY ROADMAP INTEGRATION WITH OTHER POLICIES: CIRCULAR ECONOMY PACKAGE INTEGRATION INTO ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE MODEL: PREPARING INPUTS FOR THE SEMESTER PROCESS, REGULAR POINT ON THE ENVI COUNCIL AGENDA ACTIVELY CONTRIBUTING INPUTS FOR THE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONAL AGENDA

HEADLINE TARGET GDP/RAW MATERIAL CONSUMPTION Indicator Land Indicator Materials Indicator GHG Indicator Water ANNUAL RESOURCE EFFICIENCY SCOREBOARD (EUROSTAT, since 2013) DASHBOARD

HUMAN BEHAVIOUR - WHY WE ACT AT HOME IN A DIFFERENT WAY THAN WE DO IN OUR PUBLIC LIFE? LACK OF LONG TERM CONSISTENCY – HOW TO STRENGHTEN LONG TERM STRATEGIC THINKING AND POLICY MAKING AND REPLACE PREVAILING SHORT TERM LOGIC? PROTECTING STATUS QUO - HOW TO BREAK LOCK-INS AND THE LOGIC OF DEFENDING THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR APPROACH? GOVERNENCE AND LACK OF IMPLEMENTATION: HOW TO TRANSLATE COMMITMENTS FROM POLITICAL STATEMENTS TO A DAILY REALITY ? SILOS MENTALITY - HOW TO MAKE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT COOPERATION IS THE BEST WAY FOR ALL OF THEM TO WIN?

INTERNATIONAL POLICY NEEDS A SCIENCE BASE The International Resource Panel was created in 2007 as a science-policy interface in responding to economic growth, escalating use of natural resources and deteriorating environment and climate change. Climate Change Biodiversity Loss Hazardous Substances Ozone Depletion Resource Efficiency IPCC IPBES Assessments under the Basel Convention Montreal Protocol’s Scientific Assessments International Resource Panel

Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity Integrated Scenario Analysis INDIVIDUAL RESOURCES SYSTEMS THINKING Direct and embodied resources in traded goods Sustainable Food Systems Resource use in cities

1.Assessing Biofuels (2009) 2.Priority Products and Materials (2010) 3.Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Env. Impacts from Eco. Growth (2011) 4.Metal Stocks in Society (2011) 5.Recycling Rates of Metals (2011) 6.Measuring Water Use in a Green Economy (2012) 7.Metal Recycling: Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure (2013) 8.Env. Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metal Flows and Cycles (2013) 9.City-Level Decoupling and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions (2013) 10.Assessing Global Land Use: Balancing Consumption with Sust. Supply (2014) 11.Building Natural Capital: How REDD+ Can Support a Green Economy (2014) 12.Decoupling Technologies, Opportunities and Policy Options (2014) * 12 ASSESSMENTS PUBLISHED

1.Benefits, Risks and Trade-Offs of Low Carbon Technologies: Electricity Generation (2015) 2.Resource Dimensions of International Trade (2015) 3.Benefits, Risks and Trade-Offs of Low-Carbon Technologies: Energy Efficiency (2015) 4.Maintaining and Increasing Landscape Productivity through the Application of Land Potential Evaluation Systems (2015) 5.Food Systems and Natural Resources (2016) 6.Scenarios for future resource demand ( ) 7.Material Flow database and report ( ) 8.Resource Implications of Future Urbanization (2016) * ON-GOING RESEARCH AND UPCOMING REPORTS

SUPPORT THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS IN PARTICULAR THE POST-2015 TRANSFORMATIVE AGENDA AND SDG’s FILL THE MISSING KNOWLEDGE LINKS CIRCULAR ECONOMY – REMANUFACTURING; MARINE RESOURCES – THE LINK BETWEEN GREEN AND BLUE ECONOMY; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION – RESOURCE NEXUS, LINKS TO POVERTY ERADICATION, GOVERNANCE AND POVERY ERADICATION STRENGTEN THE LINK WITH REGIONS AND COUNTRIES POLICY RELEVANCE PUBLIC IDENTIFICATION AND AWARENES OF THE WORK DONE BETTER DEFINE THE SPECIFITIES AND OVERLAPING AREAS WITH SIMILAR GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC BODIES AND ACTIVELY ENGAGE IN INTEGRATION OF THE SUBSTANCE

PROTECTING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGING OUR ECONOMIC BEHAVIOUR - WITHOUT GOING INTO THE ROOTS OF ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT RESPECTING THE LIMITS OF THE PLANET ECOLOGY ECONOMY OIKOS (HOME)

WE HAVE TO FIX A BROKEN COMPASS (PAVAN SUKHDEV)

ENVIRONMENT ECONOMY