Material Topic: E5 Resource Use and Circular Economy

Material Sub-topics: Resource inflows, including resource use, resource outflows related to products and services, and waste

Decoupling economic growth from resource depletion by switching to renewable raw materials and reusing products or recovering waste to make new materials and products, for example chemicals and polymers from recycled or renewable inflows and feedstock and fuels from renewable sources

Relevant SDGs:

SDG 8 – decent work and economic growth (icon)SDG 9 – industry, innovation and infrastructure (icon)SDG 12 – responsible consumption and production (icon)SDG 14 – life below water (icon)

SDG targets:

8.4Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavor to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, with developed countries taking the lead

9.4By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilitiesy

12.5By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling, and reuse

12.6Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle

14.1By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution

EMS
Environmental Management System
EWRM
Enterprise-Wide Risk Management
GBF
Global Biodiversity Framework
GHG
Greenhouse gas
ISCC
International Sustainability & Carbon Certification
LCA
Life Cycle Assessment
PoS
Proofs of Sustainability
SAF
Sustainable Aviation Fuel
SDs
Sustainability Declarations
kboe
Thousand barrels of oil equivalent

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