Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth
"Brings empirical evidence to bear on the levels of natural resources being consumed by humanity and the likely consumption levels if past trends are mirrored into the future. Indeed, it suggests that such unsustainable levels of consumption could triple resource use by 2050 ... Decoupling at its simplest is reducing the amount of resources such as water or fossil fuels used to produce economic growth and delinking economic development from environmental deterioration. The report points out that technological and systematic innovation, combined with rapid urbanization, offer an historic opportunity to turn decoupling from theory into reality on the ground. The report spotlights the countries of China, Germany, Japan and South Africa where governments are making headway with conscious efforts to stimulate decoupling."--Foreword
Print Book, English, 2011
United Nations Environment Programme, [Paris?], 2011