Highlights and news - Industrial Ecology Programme (IndEcol)
Highlights and news from IndEcol
Research highlights
21.05.2021. Is crushed Norwegian rock the solution to the global sand crisis? A new publication Sustainability of the global sand system in the urban era co-authored by Mark Simoni and Daniel Müller in One Earth.
Photo: Mark Simoni/NTNU
April 2020. ATLANTIS PROJECT will develop models for quantifying impacts on species diversity and ecosystem service losses from marine plastic debris and marine invasive species within the life cycle assessment framework. Funded by ERC, Horizon 2020.
Photo: Marthe A. Høiberg/NTNU
09.03.2021. Five professors from Industrial Ecology ranked among the top 2% Scientists in the world according to Sandford’s University list. This study measures the high-quality research performed in the field of Environmental Sciences of our group.
Photo: Geir Mogen/NTNU
15.02.2021. The carbon footprint of materials production has risen from 5 billion tons CO2e in 1995 to 11.5 billion tons in 2015, driven mostly by investment, according to a paper in Nature Geoscience by Edgar G. Hertwich.
Fig. 1: GHG emissions from material production
February 2021. LCA and scenario analysis of a Norwegian net-zero GHG emission neighbourhood: The importance of mobility and surplus energy from PV technologies. C.Lausselet, K.M.Lund and H.Brattebø. Published at Building and Environment
Photo: Asplan Viak and Elverum vekst.
16.12.2020. Fireplug, CircWtE, SusWoodStoves - 3 new cutting-edge projects founded by the Norwegian Research Council involving the Industrial Ecology Programme.
Photo: Unsplash.com
18.02.2021. New publication at Nature Sustainability: The land–energy–water nexus of global bioenergy potentials from abandoned cropland. Authors: Jan Sandstad Næss, Otavio Cavalett & Francesco Cherubini.
Photo: Colourbox
Other news
Losing ground in biodiversity hotspots worldwide: Agriculture is eating into areas that are important in protecting some of the most biologically diverse places on the planet. Most of this new agricultural land is being used to grow cattle feed. (29.10.2020)
Fewer cows, more trees and bioenergy. Francesco Cherubini serves as lead author of Chapter 6 for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land.
(08.08.2019)
Abandoned cropland helps make Europe cooler. Abandoned cropland — or land cover change more generally — and its role in regional climate can help to us adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change. And by improving agricultural systems, we can free up land for multiple uses.
(26.02.2020)
EXIOBASE update: v3.8.We just released a new update for the EXIOBASE 3 MRIO time-series of monetary tables: v3.8. It is a full re-estimate of the time-series, but still relies heavily on "now-casting" economic structure (and environmental extensions).
(22.11.2020)
Tiny homes to fix the climate? New blog post by Prof. Edgar Hertwich (12.12.2020)
The Industrial Ecology Digital Lab provides sustainable digital solutions for sustainability research. (01.01.2021)
IndEcol articles featured in Nature:
- Predominant regional biophysical cooling from recent land cover changes in Europe
- Systems approach to quantify the global omega-3 fatty acid cycle
- Coal-to-gas shift across across temporal and spatial scales
- Trade and the role of non-food commodities for global eutrophication
- Nanotechnology for environmentally sustainable electromobility
- Industrial ecology in integrated assessment models
- Identifying species threat hotspots form global supply chains
Norwegian SciTech News:
- Abandoned cropland helps make Europe cooler
- More people and fewer wild fish lead to an omega-3 supply gap
IPCC contributions:
- Francesco Cherubini serves as lead author of Chapter 6 for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land
- Professor Anders Hammer Strømman - Selected Lead author of Chapter 10 of the 6th IPCC Asessment Report
- Professor Francesco Cherubini has contributed to WGIII Chapter 7 (Energy systems) and 11 (AFOLU) of the 5th IPCC assessment report.
- Researcher Helene Muri presented findings from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees global warming at the Norwegian Environment Agency in Oslo.