Sentence examples for use of global resources from inspiring English sources

Our use of global resources is unsustainable.

It develops a positive vision of the future based on three pillars: a safe and fair use of global resources, a sustainable society, and a transformed economy.

Our vision of a resource-efficient Europe in 2050 is characterized by three "pillars": (1) A safe and fair use of global resources, (2) a sustainable society, and (3) a transformed economy.

Exit screening in affected countries is a better use of global resources: fewer persons would need to be screened, the positive predictive value for ill persons detected would be higher, and transmission on conveyances, such as aircraft, would be reduced.

We also face an unacceptable shortage of global resources.

Economic development in the past decades was characterized by steadily increasing levels of global resource use and rising human pressures on global ecosystems (Giljum et al. 2014; Krausmann et al. 2009; UNEP 2011a).

The objective is to improve the understanding of the efficiency of global resource use in the industrial sector and, with this information, to facilitate the development, prioritization and ultimate implementation of rational improvement options.

So far, neither the reduction nor stabilization of global resource use has been attained.

There are, however, no signs yet that this will lead to stabilization or even a reduction of global resource use.

Such accounts have the potential to provide an important additional perspective on regional patterns of global resource use as we have discussed them here but further research and methodological advancements are still required (cf. Kastner et al., 2013).

Even if we simply assume that the 2000 2010 development of global resource use, including the slight decrease in the Industrial countries, continues in the next decade ("business as usual"), we would reach a global material consumption of more than 100 Gt/a by 2020.