CIRCOMOD Kickoff meeting , 7-9 June 2022
The CIRICOMOD project was launched in early June 2022 with support from the Horizon Europe programme. The consortium, consisting of 12 partner organizations, came to Utrecht, the Netherlands, home base of Utrecht University, the project leader, to discuss the next four years of joint work and to align visions for the project. It was three […]
CIRCOMOD’s first workshop, 29 September 2022
What we should know about the models covered in CIRCOMOD Three months after the start of the project, the team of modellers from CIRCOMOD came together in an online workshop to learn more about each other’s work, models, structure, different strategies for the circular economy, and to explore the complementarities of the models covered under […]
Reducing material use could cut emissions from cars and homes by at least a third
This article was published in CarbonBrief by the CIRCOMOD consortium experts Professor Edgar Hertwich, international chair in industrial ecology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Professor Stefan Pauliuk, a professor for sustainable energy and material flow management at the University of Freiburg. ____________________________________________
CIRCOMOD’s second workshop, 5 December 2022 : Towards the common vision and narrative in modelling
One of the key challenges in the scientific modelling is to reflect the whole complexity of the real economy. The core task of CIRCOMOD is to build and demonstrate models of an ambitious circular economy. What is an ambitious circular economy? It is the one that has the whole spectrum of circularity possibilities – Refuse, […]
The need for broadening mitigation strategies
This blog article has been written by Detlef van Vuuren, the scientific leader of CIRCOMOD, a professor in Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University and a senior researcher at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. ______________________________________________________________________________
Macroeconomics and physical consistency
In this article Etienne Lorang and Reyer Gerlagh from Tilburg University explain how macroeconomic models, namely the “Computable General Equilibrium” (CGE) model are been deployed to understand better the circular economy possibilities. While the economy seems sometimes an abstract entity, it requires substantial material processing. Along with economic gro