This report provides policy guidance that can help governments achieve this goal, organised around four main areas (i) the choice and design of policy instruments, (ii) how to combine them into an effective policy mix that covers the whole of the product lifecycle, (iii) integrating resource efficiency into cross-cutting and sectoral policies, and (iv) strengthening of data and analysis to support policy development and evaluation. While the focus is mostly on the measures that governments can take at the domestic level, the report concludes by identifying a number of areas where international co-operation, including in the G7 framework, could make an important contribution in moving this agenda forward. To do this without simply displacing environmental burdens across the lifecycle of products or from one environmental medium to another requires the application of policy mixes that create a coherent set of incentives.