Industrial Ecology Blogs (Page 3)

Climate protection and development in the Global South

Nobody is as affected by the damaging forces of climate change as underdeveloped countries, but these countries face a paradox as they try to mitigate their CO2 emissions. Improving the lives of their citizens will increase the demand for energy and materials — which in turn will make climate change worse.

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PhD candidate modelling impacts of marine invasive species

"My goal is to distinguish introduction pathways of invasive species in marine environments and quantify the impacts of invasive species on marine ecosystems"

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Mammals and power lines – a problem?

We already know that power lines can impact biodiversity, for instance birds. But – actually – most of our knowledge is based on birds! Other animal groups (or plants!) do not get as much attention [1,2]. But in this post, we’ll put a spotlight on mammals. Similarly to birds, mammals

Master theses at Indecol (part I)

Where is the wood? System analysis of a Norwegian sawmill company, by Miguel de las Heras CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND RESOURCES The goal of this project is to map the use of wood by Inntre Kjeldstad, a sawmill company with several plants distributed along the Trøndelag region. The MFA model created

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NTNU Ocean Week 2021

Today is the first day of Ocean Week 2021, which is an annual conference hosted by one of NTNU's four strategic research areas, NTNU Oceans. The conference serves as a contribution to Norway's role as a maritime nation, and every year they invite researchers, policy makers,

Why do Materials Matter for Global Climate Action?

On 15-16 April 2021 the World Circular Economy Forum + Climate (WCEF) was held. The virtual summit was organized jointly by the Netherlands’ Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra. The WCEF aimed to draw attention to the importance of a

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So what’s the story with birds and power lines?

You’d think that birds, which often sit on power lines, wouldn’t mind them. However, power lines affect birds in several ways. Firstly, they act as an artificial barrier. Did you know that power lines kill millions of birds every year? [1,2,3]. In fact, scientists estimated that

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First ATLANTIS workshop

On 24 March 2021 the first, virtual, ATLANTIS workshop was held. The workshop had almost 30 attendees and a very diverse speaker list from around the world. After a general introduction into the project, life cycle assessment and the current framework for including plastic waste into life cycle impact assessment

Five Indecol Professors featured in World’s top 2% scientist list

Standford University has recently released a list that identified the top 2 percent of the world’s nearly 7 million working scientist in various disciplines. The database provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, and a composite indicator (See here the full

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Announcement of the first ATLANTIS workshop

We are excited to announce the first workshop for the ATLANTIS project on 24th March 6pm CET. The aim of this online workshop is to present the project and some preliminary results to an audience of interested persons, to inform stakeholders about the ongoing work, but also to get feedback

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Presentation in the Sano Sustainability Webinar Series

Francesca has been invited to present the ATLANTIS project and the MariLCA initiative on 17 March 2021 , 11:15 GMT. This is a webinar series from the African Waste Academy, presenting each week a different speaker connected to the issue of plastic waste in the ocean. For more information see

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Plastic in fisheries and aquaculture floods to Norwegian sea

Which item in your life can be a common pollutant? If you were being questioned, you may immediately think of Plastic. Yes, plastic is very widely used in our life and pollution due to plastic has been an emerging, global environmental problem in the past few decades. Among all the

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New PhD candidate: modelling impacts of energy systems on biodiversity in Norway

Hei! My name is Dafna Gilad and I just recently joined the Industrial Ecology Programme in the Department of Energy and Process Engineering at NTNU. With background in ecology and conservation biology, the promotion of wildlife conservation has always been important to me: I participated in nature conservation and research

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The ocean plastic pollution from a Norwegian perspective

There is no doubt that the increasing plastic pollution of the world's oceans has also reached Norway. Plastic bottles, fishing nets and countless other plastic items can now be found even on the most remote coastline stretches in the far north of Norway and are no longer only

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SANO Excursion 1H2021

… is calling on master’s students, PhD candidates and other young researchers in South Africa and in Norway to join forces in combating plastic waste and preventing marine pollution. To succeed in this fight, before it is too late, we need more data and new knowledge as a foundation for

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Two presentations from ATLANTIS team members

In the beginning of November, Marthe had the opportunity to present her ongoing work with marine plastic debris entanglement through a seminar called Ocean talks. This series of seminars is hosted by the student organization NTNU Ocean Club at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. The theme

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EXIOBASE update: v3.8

We just released a new update for the EXIOBASE 3 MRIO time-series of monetary tables: v3.8.

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Less material use = better climate

Material production accounts for close to a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, but receives little attention compared to energy, meat, or deforestation. In a new report for the International Resource Panel, we show that reducing the use of emissions-intensive materials such as metals and cement in buildings and cars

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Webinar on National Guidance for Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping Action

On October 1 we attended a very interesting Webinar hosted by UN Environment and IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature). “National Guidance for Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping Action” is a project of the life cycle initiative hosted by UN Environment, UCN, together with EA – Shaping Environmental Action,

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New PhD candidate for modelling impacts of marine plastics

My name is Marthe Alnes Høiberg, and I am a new PhD student at the Industrial Ecology Programme in the Department of Energy and Process Engineering at NTNU. I have a background in biology and industrial ecology, and I have always had a strong fascination for the ocean and an

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LC-IMPACT: a new spatially differentiated life cycle impact assessment method

LC-IMPACT was originally a project financed by the seventh framework program of the European Union. During the project many new models and approaches for assessing impacts on ecosystems and human health within a life cycle assessment framework were developed. However, an overarching combination of all these developments was lacking. This

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SETAC SciCon: a virtual conference

The SETAC (Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Europe Annual meeting was supposed to take place in Dublin this year. Due to the situation with the Coronavirus, the conference could of course not be held as planned. Instead of canceling the conference, the organizers decided to transform the conference into

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Exiobase3

EXIOBASE 3 is the culmination of work in the FP7 DESIRE project (www.fp7desire.eu) and builds upon earlier work on EXIOBASE 2 in the FP7 CREEA projected (www.creea.eu) and the FP6 EXIOPOL project. The papers describing the work in EXIOBASE 3 are coming out at Journal of

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Science Cannot Stop Global Warming

With current efforts or those committed to under the Paris agreement, there is absolutely no chance that humanity will limit the warming of the Earth’s surface to an average of 1.5 degrees Celsius. This finding emerges from a special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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Metals use tied to economic upswings

Will more expensive metals impede economic growth in the US? As the US government justifies new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports with their military importance, the role of metals in society comes into focus. New research shows that metals are an important ingredient in economic upswings. Conversely, metal use