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 crosscutting 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 cooperation including in the g 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