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This website is an initiative of Chatham House's Environment and Society Centre. 

About the Environment and Society Centre

Our work explores the fast-evolving dynamics, interdependencies and barriers involved in transitioning to a sustainable economy that is resilient and adaptive to mounting environmental and geopolitical risks.

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When citing or reproducing any data or material from resourcetransitions.earth, please use the following reference:

Chatham House (2026), ‘Resource transitions’, https://resourcetransitions.earth.

• Trade data are calculated from source data provided under licence by UN Comtrade.
• The resource trade dataset builds on prior work by Jaakko Kooroshy, Felix Preston, Sian Bradley, Daniel Quiggin and Richard King.
• The policy dataset has been sourced in collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) for the national circular economy roadmaps and strategies, and with support from the World Bioeconomy Forum for the national bioeconomy roadmaps and strategies. It builds on initial data collated by Kweku Attafuah Wadee, Gareth Price, Johanna Tilkanen, Melissa MacEwen, Charlotte Watts, Anna Åberg and Philippa Lockwood.

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