World Resources Forum

Empowering collaboration for sustainable resources

Global platform for multi-stakeholder dialogue and action

The World Resources Forum is an international non-profit organisation mobilising concerted action to promote sustainability and fairness in the global use of natural resources. Through our multi-stakeholder conferences and projects, we strive to scale up knowledge and practical solutions able to make resource use a force for human wellbeing within planetary boundaries.

Sustainable resource use plays a key role to combat climate change, achieve the SDGs and enable the low-carbon transition.

Unsustainable production and consumption systems powered by relentless extraction of natural resources have been driving the inter-linked planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.

Today, resource extraction and processing are responsible for over 80% of biodiversity loss and water stress, and for 50% of carbon emissions globally. And global material resource use is expected to more than double from 2015 to 2050.

Through the shared vision and effective collaboration of all societal stakeholders, we can counteract these negative impacts and scale up solutions for an efficient and sustainable use of resources.

How We Strive For Impact

Our Activities

FORUM

An inclusive and forward-looking space for multi-stakeholder dialogue building knowledge and support for collaborative action.

Bridging the knowledge-practice gap through applied research and capacity building, with a distinct focus on the Global South.

RESOURCE EXTRACTION

Reduce extraction and operate responsibly

Enabling the extractive sector to positively contribute to the SGDs while guaranteeing the supply of mineral resources necessary for the transition towards low-carbon economies.

RESOURCE CIRCULARITY

Enabling resources to fulfil their full potential

Supporting the design and diffusion of circular economy models able to reduce the resource intensity and waste of the global economy by keeping products and materials in use.

RESOURCE RECOVERY

Preventing value being labelled as waste

Ensuring that end-of-pipe solutions efficiently recover resources with high environmental and health standards, reducing the ever-growing need for virgin raw materials.