Resource efficiency assessment: trends and methods

Its main objective is to decouple the dependence of economic activities and human well-being on the use of natural resources and environmental impacts. The author highlights the approximate stages of progress towards this goal in the frame of important international events and documents adopted within recent 15 years. These are – “Resource efficiency improvement as the main tool for sustainable development”; “To-wards scenario of sustainability – increase of re-source use efficiency and introduction of sustainable consumption and production patterns”; “A new green deal – decarbonization (achieving carbon neutrality) and a cyclical economy”. The features of Russian new climate agenda are shown. The pa-per presents the main indicators of resource productivity and intensity of resources use, decoupling and adjustment of the gross savings methods. The latter make it possible to assess the relationship between the economic result and environ-mental impact. Resource decoupling and impact decoupling have been tested in assessment of efficiency of forest and water resources use and the regional ecological situation. The author evaluated the method of calculation of adjusted net savings. The analysis of the World Bank scheme and methodological adaptations for the Russian regions and the Komi Republic allowed making a conclusion about the subjectivity of the results. At the same time, the methodological studies carried out on the regional valuation of the components of the net savings index – ecosystem services, depletion and regeneration of forest resources, damage to public health caused by environmental hazards is commendable and should be continued.