Assessing the environmental and social impacts of biofuel production and the sustainable recycling of metals are likely to top the agenda of a new global think tank on resource efficiency, set up by the United Nations on 9 November.
The International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, set up by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), was launched on the occasion of the third World Science Forum.
The objective of the panel, originally proposed by the Commission in the EU strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources in 2005, is to strengthen the global scientific base for resource management. Its ultimate aim is to contribute to the global challenge of decoupling economic growth from resource use.
Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said the panel "can fill a major gap in our knowledge by providing an independent scientific assessment of the environmental impacts of using renewable and non-renewable resources."
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