Drilling fluids contain a mineral that is the main ingredient for the world’s most promising cooling paints: barite. Can we recover this mineral from soon-to-be-obsolete fossil wells to cool our houses in a heated world?
How circular is South Africa’s economy? – With this research, we present the first-ever comprehensive analysis of material and energy flows for an extractive economy.
In the next months, CircEUlar project partners will conduct qualitative interviews and a quantitative pilot study to investigate factors influencing circular consumption and circular citizenship. That way, we will gain a deeper understanding of circular consumption and circular citizenship behaviours in different countries.
In a recent study, our partner Technische Universität Berlin (Sustainability Economics of Human Settlements) – TUB looked at 25 million buildings in France, Spain and the Netherlands and tried to estimate the construction year and retrofit need. The overarching goal was to assess if machine learning methods can facilitate the identification of retrofit candidates at scale.
Recent years have seen the rapid increase of micro e-mobility ownership and the launch of public rental schemes across many European cities. However, its long-term impact is dependent on its ability to complement other sustainable modes, and ultimately to displace car use and ownership.
A pressing question lies at the heart of our current research: Can materials play a decisive role in either advancing or hindering our efforts to achieve the goals of climate change mitigation?
The Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (INEGI) has joined the CircEUlar project as of August 2023, using the new Hop-on facility offered by the European Research Executive Agency.
The 11th International Conference on Industrial Ecology was held in Leiden (Netherlands) from the 2nd to the 5th July, 2023. On the final day, CMCC team presented the work of CircEUlar’s Work Package 3.
NTNU hand IIASA have presented their latest advancements towards the integration of the value chains for electromobility into the MESSAGEix-Materials-Transport module at the ISIE 2023.
Experts from three EU projects, SUFFICCS, CircEUlar, and CircoMod are pooling their knowledge to compare methods for measuring building stocks and see how their results stack up.