The inefficient resource use at a time of growing demand is leading to increasing environmental pressure and resources scarcity that will affect Europe and other parts of the world over the next years and decades. Prices for global commodities like oil, raw materials and wheat have been...

On February 2011, the European Commission adopted a new strategy to improve measures and access to raw materials, considering that EU is high dependence of imports of them. The new strategy considers three pillars to improving raw materials access. One of them is boosting resource efficiency and...