CIRCOMOD Team’s Prominent Presence at IAMC Annual Event
The Sixteenth IAMC Annual Meeting took place from November 14-16, 2023, in Venice, Italy. Organized by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), a key partner of CICOMOD, the event brought together a diverse group of participants from renowned institutions, showcasing the collaborative efforts within the integrated assessment modeling community. CIRCOMOD
Major update of the industrial ecology data commons
The industrial ecology data commons (iedc) is a prototype for an industrial ecology community database. It currently contains about 200 IE-related datasets with more than 3 million data points from the literature, including stocks, flows, process descriptions, IO tables, material composition of products, and many more. It has been online since 2018, and is continuousl
Seminar series on Sustainable Development Beyond Green Growth
We know that a ‘greening’ of current economic practices will not suffice to achieve global sustainability targets, such as limiting global warming to well below 2°C and eradicate poverty. A growing body of literature shows that we need to transform not only our energy system and decarbonise industry, but have to rethink our entire economic […]
New paper by the CIRCOMOD researchers sheds light on material requirements for Decent Living Standards
In a significant milestone for the research community, the CIRCOMOD project has unveiled an insightful research article titled “Material Requirements of Decent Living Standards” offering a fresh perspective on our understanding of sustainable living. The brilliant minds behind this research are our esteemed colleagues, Johan Vélez-Henao and Stefan Pauliuk
Navigating Our Milestones: Review of CE policy questions, current knowledge gap and review of circular economy (CE) measures
The CIRCOMOD project’s trajectory is marked by a critical juncture of discovery, yielding vital deliverables that illuminate the path to a circular economy (CE). As the project gains momentum, let’s uncover the essence of our CE policy reviews, knowledge gap analysis, and a comprehensive assessment of circular economy measures (Deliverable 1.1). At the pro
CIRCOMOD Team Leaves a Mark at ISIE2023 Conference
Undoubtedly a pinnacle on the global scientific calendar for the CIRCOMOD team was the ISIE2023 – the 11th biennial conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE), which unfolded its intellectual space in Leiden from the 2nd to the 5th of July, 2023. This gathering, which can be dubbed the quintessential convergence of integrated […
Empowering Circular Plastics Modeling: A Recap of the Collaborative Workshop
A remarkable stride in the CIRCOMOD project’s collaborative efforts came to fruition with the convening of the workshop titled “Empowering Circular Plastics Modeling for the Netherlands and Beyond.” This engaging event was co-organized in partnership with the PBL – Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency’s research program focused on
Decoding EXIOBASE: Internal CIRCOMOD Workshop
Within the dynamic journey of the CIRCOMOD project, the pursuit of objectives is marked by an unceasing spirit of exploration, sharing, and collaborative learning. As a collective of experts, each well-versed in specific methodologies, data, and resources, the project team thrives on routine communication and the orchestration of specialized workshops. An exemplar of
A Milestone meeting of CIRCOMOD and CircEUlar in Venice
Towards synergies in two projects On 17-19 April 2023, Venice hosted a big team of circular economy and climate modellers from two sister projects CIRCOMOD and CircEUlar. The meeting was a follow up of a series of online meetings and became the first face to face interaction of the project teams working on the same […]
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, […]