In the OECD Asia-Oceania region, the consumption of wood and of construction and industrial minerals has decoupled from economic growth in absolute terms, as has biomass (food and feed) and fossil energy carriers consumption in the OECD Europe region. Domestic material consumption remained relatively flat between 2000 and 2007, but decreased by 11% between 2007 and 2011. This trend is not isolated to OECD countries, metal and fossil fuel extraction is increasing worldwide and is growing particularly rapidly in the BRIICS countries.4 In the OECD area, the extraction of metal ores has grown at the same pace at the economy -each more than doubled between 1980 and 2010.