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Establishing a resource efficient economy is central to achieving green growth. It involves putting in place policies that improve resource productivity and that ensure a sustainable natural resource and materials management building on the principle of the 3Rs —reduce, reuse and recycle— and encouraging more sustainable consumption patterns. Better resource productivity can both help to improve the environment, by reducing the amount of resources that economic activity requires and diminishing the associated environmental burden, and help to sustain economic growth by securing adequate supplies of materials, investing in new technologies and innovation, and improving competitiveness.
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This report is part of the OECD programme of work on material flows and resource productivity that supports the implementation of the 2004 and 2008 OECD Council recommendations related to material flows and resource productivity. It contributes to OECD work on monitoring progress towards green growth and to the OECD project on measuring economic performance and social progress.
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This report is part of the OECD programme of work on material flows and resource productivity that aims to (i) develop a better understanding of the physical resource base of countries’ economies, including the international and environmental dimensions, (ii) monitor progress with resource productivity, and (iii) foster the implementation of effective policy mixes that improve resource productivity, reduce negative environmental impacts of natural resources, materials and product use, and promote integrated life-cycle oriented approaches to natural resource, waste and materials management.
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