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Consumption and production of natural resources in Europe is associated with increasingly globalised dependencies and impacts. It is crucial in this context that any national and regional policy reform efforts in Europe—designed to increase the efficiency of resource consumption and production—recognise the global contexts that they interact with and within which they are embedded. Responding to a subset of this awareness challenge, we present here a coarse-grained survey of the multi-level global governance architecture relevant to the consumption and production of natural resources. We identify key structural features of global governance that function as barriers to resource efficiency, and emergent responses to these barriers that reform efforts in Europe should continue to build on and support.