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UNEP Report: Asia-Pacific Region Needs Sustainable Industrial System

October 28, 2011

The United Nations Environment Programme released a report titled "Resource Efficiency: Economics and Outlook for Asia Pacific" which focuses on natural resources both as drivers and as consequences of economic activity and social development. It highlights the use of resources in the Asia-Pacific region from 1970 to 2005, the time period when exceptional economic development took place in many countries in the region. The report concludes that sustainable resource use and resource efficiency will become an economic and social necessity for the region for the next years to come.

Download a copy of the report at http://www.unep.org/roap/Portals/96/REEO_AP_Key.pdf.