The Indian Resource Panel: A Mechanism to Promote Resource Efficiency Policy Throughout the Indian Economy (original) (raw)

2019

Abstract

India’s rapid economic growth necessitates rapidly increasing resource consumption. However, resource extraction, processing, use and disposal typically have considerable environmental impacts. In addition, there are concerns about the adequate and affordable supply of resources in the future, especially for certain critical resources for which India is highly import dependent. Therefore, resource efficiency is critical for sustainable development in India going forward. While considerable resource reuse and recycling is already existent in the Indian economy, there is no overall strategic approach to resource efficiency such as those adopted by European Union nations. The Indo-German bilateral cooperation project “Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Management of Secondary Raw Materials”, funded by the German Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, is being jointly implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH a...

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