In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic and on advice from our Co-Chairs, the IRP secretariat has prepared the attached paper, entitled "Building Resilient Societies after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Messages from the International Resource Panel". The paper provides policy recommendations and examples drawn from IRP scientific assessments to support a resource-smart economic recovery, guided by the proposition to rethink the way we generate wealth, the way we move, live, and eat.