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