Global Material Resources - Outlook To 2060. Economic Drivers And Environmental Consequences

This report, from the OECD (free to download), provides an overview of a new report - Global Material Resources - Outlook to 2060. The world has seen strong economic developments in recent decades. Global growth of GDP has been largely driven by fast-growing emerging economies like China and India. The coming decades are expected to bring further shifts in the geographical balance of the global economy. The projections in the Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060 build on three key socioeconomic trends that affect materials use. A detailed understanding of the evolution of the global economy and how different economic activities link to the use of different materials is essential for an understanding of future materials use.