🚗 How is the EU’s electric vehicle transition affecting global forest loss?

Our new report models the potential deforestation impacts of the EU’s metal demand for electric vehicles (EVs) from 2025 to 2050.
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Summer has finally arrived in Vienna ☀️
Nothing better than lunch outdoors with great company and sunshine 😎

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Huge congrats to our colleague Roman Hausmann who successfully defended his PhD thesis on Community-Led Economic Initiatives and their Intersections with Local and European Policy Institutions 👏👏👏

📢 New feature on www.materialflows.net: The Sector Profile

The new sector profile offers interactive visualisations and in-depth analysis of global material extraction and use across various economic sectors, such as agriculture, ore mining, and construction 🌱 ⛏️ 🚧

✨ Exciting News: The Global Resource Use (GRU) Team has launched its new website! ✨

Following their commitment to #OpenScience, all data, models & tools developed by GRU + current projects & literature and are now collectively available at the GRU-Hub 👇
resource-use.global

@sluckene.bsky.social has successfully defended his PhD thesis – just in time for Christmas. Congrats!! 🥳

📢 Konferenz: "Rohstoffpolitik gerecht gestalten – hin zu einer globalen Just Transition!" 🌍

Stefan Giljum diskutiert mit Kolleg*innen den Rohstoffbedarf für E-Mobilität und Digitalisierung

📅 29.–31. Januar 2025
📍 Wien

Alle Infos zur Konferenz und Anmeldung: www.attac.at/fileadmin/us...

Congrats to our colleague Thomas Neier who successfully defended his PhD thesis today! 👏
Good luck with all your future endeavours - you'll definitely be missed!

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🎉Big News🎉
Our colleague Victor Maus won an ERC Consolidator Grant! 👏

In his project MINE-THE-GAP, he will use high-precision satellite data with cutting-edge AI models to deliver globally consistent data to monitor mining activities, supporting supply chain transparency and ecosystem protection.

The data also show that material productivity has steadily improved, meaning we convert raw materials into economic output more effectively. However, global circularity—the reuse and recycling of materials—remains critically low, with less than 10% of materials being recycled.

Global material extraction has more than quadrupled from 1970 to 2024, but slowed since 2014. Yet, inequality persists: high-income nations consume six times more materials than low-income nations. Stefan Giljum, Stephan Lutter, and colleagues explore these trends in their latest study. 🧵

🌟 Welcome to our new home on Bluesky! 🌟
We’re excited to keep you updated on the latest research and news from the Institute for Ecological Economics.