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Recycling provides core resources
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Recycling can meet a large proportion of the economy’s resources demand, alleviating pressure on ecosystems to provide resources and assimilate waste. Recycling already meets substantial proportions of demand for some resource groups, notably paper and cardboard, and iron and steel.
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Selected raw materials: world use and rare earth elements, germanium and tantalum
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For the graph: 2006 and projected 2030 world use of neodymium, germanium and tantalum. The technologies responsible for the growth in use of these materials by 2030 are indicated in red. For the map: The bars show estimated reserves of rare earth elements, germanium and tantalum.
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Cost of oil production
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Production cost comparison between arctic oil, deep and ultra-deepwater oil, heavy oil and bitumen, conventional oil
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Human use of terrestrial ecosystems
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Human appropriation of net primary production in percentage
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Changing environmental governance in a changing world
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Climate change, growing consumption and urbanisation, spiralling resource use and new health risks are just some of the global pressures the world will face in the 21st Century. These are the findings from the Assessment of Global Megatrends, launched in November 2010 as part of the State and Outlook of the European Environment Report (SOER) and now published in a new book version.
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Globalisation, environment and you
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New EEA report highlights connectivity between global issues
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World energy demand
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Total primary energy demand by fuel type (coal, oil, gas, nuclear, hydroelectric, biomass and waste, other renewable).
Distinguishing 2 scenario for 2020 and 2035: IEA-450 scenario and current policies scenario.
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