Davos 2018: Leaders urged to tackle 'circularity gap' in world resources

Madeleine Cuff
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Just a fraction of global resources are re-used according to new research - but can we close the loop in time?

In October a major UN report confirmed what most of the climate world already knew: that the carbon reduction pledges made by nations at the Paris Summit in 2015 are insufficient if the world is to avert...

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