UNEP Eco-innovation supplement for electronics – Launch Webinar on May 4

On May 4, 2023 (15.00 – 16.30 CEST), the World Resources Forum and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will host a launch webinar on the recently published Eco-innovation Electronics […]
Extractive Commodity Trading Report 2023 is out!

St. Gallen, 20/03/2023 – Some trading companies are debunking the myth that public disclosure harms competitiveness, amidst persistent opacity in the sector. According to two Swiss-based independent research organisations, a […]
WRF’23 Call for Abstracts is published!

The Call for Abstracts of WRF’23 is now open – have a look at our key thematic areas and contribute to our science-based, multi-stakeholder dialogue! Call for Abstracts International experts […]
More efforts needed to foster the repair sector in Europe, new ETC/EEA study finds

A recent report by the European Topic Centre – Circular Economy and Resource Use (ETC CE), funded by the European Environment Agency (EEA), concludes that targeted initiatives and legislation as […]
World Resources Forum & University of South Australia co-host international webinar on sufficiency on December 2

On December 2, 10.00 – 11.30am CET, the World Resources Forum and University of South Australia will co-host the free webinar ‘Sufficiency Policies: a key enabler for sustainable and fair […]
WRFA partner of new Horizon Europe project fostering a Circular Economy in Digital Health

Organisations’ representatives at the DiCE kick-off meeting Launched in Oct, 2022, the Digital Health in a Circular Economy (DiCE) project aims to address the issue of increasing digital health […]
The World Resources Forum 2023 to take place in Geneva on September 4-6 2023

The World Resources Forum Association is enthusiastic to announce the 2023 World Resources Forum (WRF) Conference. WRF’23 will take place in September 2023 in a hybrid format, […]
WRF Declaration 2009: a joint call to reduce resource consumption in ‘wealthy nations’

On September 16, 2009 – at the end of the first World Resources Forum conference in Davos (Switzerland) and Nagoya (Japan) – participants adopted a declaration to tackle the excessive […]
WRFA partners up with Responsible Mining Foundation for the Extractive Commodity Trading Report 2023

St.Gallen, 5 September 2022 – The World Resources Forum Association and the Responsible Mining Foundation are partnering on the production of the Extractive Commodity Trading Report 2023. Building on the […]
Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek: 3 visionary ideas that changed how we think about sustainable resource use

By Xaver Edelmann & Emanuele Di Francesco —— Known as the ‘father of dematerialization‘ and the inventor of the ‘Ecological Rucksack‘ (‘Ökologischer Rucksack’) and ‘Resources Turnaround‘ (‘Ressourcenwende‘), Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek (1932-2019) […]