Resource Efficiency & Climate Change – A Comprehensive Modelling Framework For The Socio-Economic System

The Group of Seven (G7) member countries requested that the International Resource Panel conduct an assessment of the potential contribution of Resource Efficiency to Climate Change mitigation (RECC). The Yale Center for Industrial Ecology is currently leading a team of researchers in order toidentify policy scenarios and to develop a modelling framework that enables an assessment of the global socio-economic system. In previous work the International Resource Panel investigated the overall potentials and implications of resource efficiency (RE) and found that it has the potential to reducenatural resource use globally by 28% and greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20% in 2050, compared to a reference scenario.