{"id":8149,"date":"2020-02-19T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T06:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8149"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","slug":"how-minerals-and-metals-companies-can-help-achieve-2030-agenda-for-sustainable-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/19\/how-minerals-and-metals-companies-can-help-achieve-2030-agenda-for-sustainable-development\/","title":{"rendered":"How Minerals And Metals Companies Can Help Achieve 2030 Agenda For Sustainable Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Minerals and metals play a central role in the global economy and will continue to provide the raw material we need for industrial processes and daily use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite enormous efforts to decouple economies from resource use, the extraction of mineral resources has increased markedly in recent decades and, over the last decade, at a faster rate than economic growth. This trend is forecasted to steadily increase in the future, as we struggle to meet the mineral resource needs of a growing global population that is expected to reach&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/en\/news\/population\/world-population-prospects-2017.html\">8.5 billion by 2030, 9.8 billion by 2050 and 11.2 billion by the end of the century<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worldwide transitions towards clean energy and electric vehicles will also accelerate the trend, as renewable energy sources require larger amounts of metals than energy production from fossil fuels. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/how-minerals-and-metals-companies-can-help-achieve-2030-agenda-sustainable\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minerals and metals play a central role in the global economy and will continue to provide the raw material we need for industrial processes and daily use. Despite enormous efforts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}