EcosystemSUMMIT & RESEARCH
DEFINITION USED IN THIS COLLECTION

Sufficiency.

Limiting or redirecting consumption to meet needs within ecological and distributive constraints.

What it includes

Limiting or redirecting consumption to meet needs within ecological and distributive constraints.

Where the boundary lies

More efficient supply without examining demand is not sufficiency.

How speakers put it.

The definition above is used to organise this collection. The passages below show how the idea appears in discussion.

Evidence in practice.

All 3 coded passages →

Analyst applies. Sufficiency and reduced global-North consumption are proposed as central to a just mineral transition.

analyst applies · DAY 3 · 33:26

Sufficiency and reduced global-North consumption are proposed as central to a just mineral transition.

Cited scenario reductions are not independently checked.

Likely speaker
Christopher BoardSustainability Specialist · International Tin AssociationLinkedIn ↗
Elizabeth A. BennettEndowed Professor; Strategic Advisor · UN Forum on Sustainability Standards (advisory role)LinkedIn ↗
Blanca Racionero GómezSenior Researcher, Just Transition and Natural Resources · Business & Human Rights Resource CentreLinkedIn ↗
The Cleanest Ton: Critical Minerals, Trust, and the New Extractive BargainWatch passage →

Qualifies the boundary. More efficient supply without examining demand is not sufficiency.

Differences and limits.

No event-wide agreement is inferred from coding. Compare the attributed examples and boundaries; co-occurrence is not evidence of agreement.

More efficient supply without examining demand is not sufficiency.

Related concepts.

related · ANALYST INTERPRETATION

material demand →

Material demand asks what drives resource use; sufficiency asks whether needs can be met with less or differently.

Codes that occur in the same passages

Co-occurrence describes coding, not equivalence, causation or agreement.