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Norway's biodiversity footprint is unknown
Edgar Hertwich argues that Øystein Sjølie's critique of a Sintef report on Norway's biodiversity footprints is partially correct and the footprints are unknown.
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The Legacy Footprint of Capital
by Ranran Wang and Edgar Hertwich Manufactured capital assets, such as buildings, machinery, and transport equipment, play a pivotal role in driving economic development and human progress. Yet, a common misconception pins greenhouse gas emissions and resource extractions mainly on short-term consumption. New research published in the Proceedings of
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Lead authorship for upcoming IPBES report
Francesca Verones was selected as lead author for the upcoming IPBES report on Biodiversity and business. This report aims to provide an assessment of the impacts, as well as the dependence, that businesses and biodiversity have. The goal is to identify methods and indicators with which these impacts can be
Why we love culture service of marine ecosystems?
Who would say no to a ticket leading to a holiday by the coast? Just imagine the gentle sea breeze, relaxing sunset, carefree seabirds: what a wonderful destination! Covering more than 70% of global surface, marine ecosystems do not only support us with provision service, but also provide culture service
Carbon Footprint of Metals
We have a new paper out titled Decomposition Analysis of the Carbon Footprint of Primary Metals. Here is my attempt at explaining why you should care, what you should know, and what you can take away from it. Why should you care? Metals are omnipresent in our society and crucial
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Group retreat and midterm evaluations of two ATLANTIS PhDs
From 12-14 April 2023 the entire Industrial Ecology Programme went on a group retreat to Oppdal, approximately two hours away from Trondheim. Apart from team building and social activities, the aim was to hold the midterm evaluations of 8 PhD students of the Industrial Ecology Programme, among them Fei
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Plastics: some history, benefits and challenges
Polymers have transformed our lives. We have been benefiting from them since approximately 1600 BC when natural rubber was first discovered[1]. A polymer is a material that consists of many repeated smaller subunits known as monomers. The way these monomers are arranged results in the formation of different kinds
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COP15 to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity: Quick history and relation to ATLANTIS
Global biodiversity has declined rapidly in the past decades, the WWF’s Living Planet Report of 2022 stated that wildlife populations declined on average 69% since 1970. In light of this issue, the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) was
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CONSENCE on the move!
In 2022, the CONSENCE project was on the move. Literally! As the global coronavirus pandemic eased (-ish), came the first opportunity to attend conferences and share some of our first results! The first stop was the 32nd annual European meeting of SETAC (the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) [1]
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Research stay with the Center for Marine Debris Research
During the fall semester of 2022, Marthe Høiberg got the opportunity to do a research stay with the Center for Marine Debris Research (CMDR) on Oahu, Hawai'i. The research center is part of Hawai'i Pacific University (HPU) and they conduct interdisciplinary research on plastic pollution in
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ATLANTIS at the EcoBalance 2022
EcoBalance is a conference held in Japan every second year since 1994, it has a strong focus on LCA and its application in industries. This year, the 15th EcoBalance, was hosted in Fukuoka, and themed ´Shifting Paradigms with Life Cycle Thinking´. Two members from the ATLANTIS project, me (Fei Song)
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82nd Swiss LCA discussion forum on addressing the issue of plastic pollution: status quo and the way forward
The ATLANTIS team organized the 82nd Swiss LCA discussion forum