Ce rapport préconise que le taux de croissance économique ne soit pas proportionnel au taux de consommation des ressources naturelles qui pourrait atteindre 140 milliards de tonnes d'ici à 2050, soit trois fois le niveau de ressources naturelles utilisées par an à travers le monde. Il souligne que les gisements de plusieurs ressources, comme le pétrole, le cuivre et l'or, commencent déjà à s'épuiser, avec pour conséquence une hausse des volumes de combustibles et d'eau douce nécessaires à leur extraction. D'où la plaidoirie du rapport pour une dissociation - ou découplage -, c'est-à-dire apprendre à produire plus de richesses en utilisant moins de ressources. Le rapport cite les progrès de quatre pays ayant adopté des politiques dissociant l'utilisation des ressources et leur impact sur l'environnement de la croissance économique : le Japon, l'Allemagne, l'Afrique du Sud et la Chine. Il propose trois scénarios de consommation des ressources d'ici 2050. Nairobi. http://temis.documentation.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/document.xsp?id=Temis-0079033
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Contents
List of figures and tables
Abbreviations and acronyms
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Preface
Foreword
Executive summary
Objective and scope
ntroduction 1.1 Why decoupling? 1.2 Defining decoupling 1.2.1 Roots of the decoupling concept
lobal longterm trends in te use of natural resources and in undesirable environmental impacts Note on methodology 2.1 2.2 The glol dynmics of mteil esouce use 2.2.1 onclusion 2. ssessing the dynmics of glol envionmentl impcts 2..1 ttegies to educe impcts 2..2 The nvionmentl unets uve 2.. mpiicl studies of impcts 2..4 onclusion 2.4 cenios fo futue glol mteils use 2.4.1 cenio 1 usiness s usul 2.4.2 cenio 2 odete contction nd convegence 2.4. cenio Tough contction nd convegence ecoupling and te need for system innovations.1 Rethining goth .2 nnovtion nd decoupling . ities s spces fo innovtion nd decoupling .4 xpeiences nd lessons fom the county cse studies .4.1 Recogniing esouce depletion nd negtive impcts .4.2 olicy esponses .4. Decoupling
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ecoupling trade and development dynamics4.1 Tde nd the distiution of esouces nd envionmentl udens 4.1.1 The dynmics of glol tde in economic monety nd physicl tems 4.1.2 The economic stuctue of glol tde 4.1. The physicl stuctue of glol tde 4.1.4 ndiect esouce flos emodied in tde 4.1. Tde decoupling nd development 4.2 Decoupling development nd ineulity 4.2.1 fic s specil cse? 4. Decoupling nd the eound effect 4.4 ices nd esouce poductivity
onclusions and major policy callenges.1 onclusions .2 o policy chllenges ountry case studies