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be noted that there are significant intra-regional differences in the EU, with the material footprint of older Member States being significantly higher than that of the countries of the former Eastern Bloc (Figure-L2 54).
Despite the progress achieved in reducing DMC, the region faces a formidable challenge to decouple natural resource consumption from economic growth in absolute terms to
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levels that are both fair and sufficient from a regional and global sustainability point of view without compromising economic performance or human well-being. The region needs to approach and ultimately achieve absolute decoupling of its material footprint from economic growth – factoring in imports and burden shifting, reducing intra- regional and global burden shifting to zero and eliminating sub-regional differences in natural resource-use efficiency.