Circular Economy Modelling for Climate Change Mitigation

Deliverables

Demand-side CE options and their potential contributions to resource efficiency.
Literature review about the existing practice of economic modelling of CE
Review of CE policy questions and current knowledge gap and CE measures

Review of CE policy questions and currentknowledge gap and CE measures

Material supply module and documentatio

Material supply module and documentation

Project-wide data model and the data hub structure
Develop a stylized model describing core principles & interactions

Project website, media releases, social media

CIRCOMOD project website and social media channels on Linked in and Twitter will be launched by month 6 and will be regularly updated by providing news, progress in the project, new content, including the project bulletin, which will provide project updates on quarterly basis.

Publications

Archetype-based energy and material use estimation for the residential buildings in Arab Gulf countries

Author(s): Sahin Akin, Chibuikem Chrysogonus Nwagwu, Niko Heeren, Edgar Hertwich
Published in: Energy and Buildings, Issue 298, 2023, ISSN 1872-6178
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113537

live (a) little: GHG emissions from residential building materials for all 400 counties and cities of Germany until 2050

Author(s): Jakob Napiontek, Tomer Fishman, Peter-Paul Pichler, John Heintz, Helga Weisz
Published in: Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Issue 215, 2025, ISSN 0921-3449
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.108117

Correction to “Material Requirements of Decent Living Standards”

Author(s): Johan Andrés Vélez-Henao; Stefan Pauliuk
Published in: Environmental Science & Technology, Issue Vol 58/Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 1520-5851
Publisher: ACS Publications
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.EST.3C09400

Western Asian and Northern African residential building stocks: archetype analysis

Author(s): Sahin Akin, Aida Eghbali, Chibuikem Nwagwu, Edgar Hertwich
Published in: Buildings & Cities, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2632-6655
Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
DOI: 10.5334/BC.488

Reducing sectoral hard-to-abate emissions to limit reliance on carbon dioxide removal

Author(s): Oreane Y. Edelenbosch; Andries F. Hof; Maarten van den Berg; Harmen Sytze de Boer; Hsing-Hsuan Chen; Vassilis Daioglou; Mark M. Dekker; Jonathan C. Doelman; Michel G. J. den Elzen; Mathijs Harmsen; Stratos Mikropoulos; Mariësse A. E. van Sluisveld; Elke Stehfest; Isabela S. Tagomori; Willem-Jan van Zeist; Detlef P. van Vuuren
Published in: Nature Climate Change, Issue 14, 715–722, 2024, ISSN 1758-6798
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41558-024-02025-Y

Industry transformations for high service provisioning with lower energy and material demand: A review of models and scenarios

Author(s): Wiedenhofer, D.; Streeck, J.; Wiese, F.; Verdolini, E.; Mastrucci, A.; Ju, Y.; Boza-Kiss, B.; Min, J.; Norman, J.; Wieland, H.; Bento, N.; Godoy León. M. F.; Magalar, L.; Mayer, A.; Gingrich, S.; Hayashi, A.; Jupesta, J.; Ünlü, G.; Niamir, L.; Cao, T.; Zanon-Zotin, M.; Plank, B.; Vélez-Henao, J.; Masanet, E.; Krey, V.; Akimoto, K.; Grubler, A.; van Ruijven, B.; Pauliuk, S.
Published in: Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Issue 49, 2024, ISSN 1545-2050
Publisher: Annual Reviews
DOI: 10.1146/ANNUREV-ENVIRON-110822-044428

Material and Carbon Footprints of Machinery Capital

Author(s): Meng Jiang; Ranran Wang; Richard Wood; Kajwan Rasul; Bing Zhu; Edgar Hertwich
Published in: Environmental Science & Technology, 2023, ISSN 1520-5851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c06180

Linking hypothetical extraction, the accumulation of production factors, and the addition of value

Author(s): Edgar G. Hertwich, Maximilian Koslowski, Kajwan Rasul
Published in: Journal of Industrial Ecology, Issue 28, 2024, ISSN 1088-1980
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.13522

Global stagnation and regional variations in steel recycling

Author(s): Takuma Watari, Tomer Fishman, Hanspeter Wieland, Dominik Wiedenhofer
Published in: Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Issue 220, 2025, ISSN 0921-3449
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.RESCONREC.2025.108363

Nature Communications

Author(s): Meng Jiang; Yuheng Cao; Changgong Liu; Dingjiang Chen; Wenji Zhou; Qian Wen; Hejiang Yu; Jian Jiang; Yucheng Ren; Shanying Hu; Edgar Hertwich; Bing Zhu
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 3854, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47930-0

CIRCEE, the CIRCular Energy Economy model: Bridging the gap between economic and industrial ecology concepts

Author(s): Corbier, Darius; Pettifor, Hazel; Agnew, Maureen; Drouet, Laurent
Published in: Journal of Industrial Ecology, Issue 28, 2024, ISSN 1530-9290
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1111/JIEC.13587

Modelling Nigerian residential dwellings: bottom-up approach and scenario analysis

Author(s): Chibuikem Chrysogonus Nwagwu; Sahin Akin; Edgar G. Hertwich
Published in: Buildings & Cities, Issue Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 2024, ISSN 2632-6655
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/bc.452

Global stagnation and regional variations in steel recycling

Author(s): Takuma Watari, Tomer Fishman, Hanspeter Wieland, Dominik Wiedenhofer
Published in: Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Issue 220, 2025, ISSN 0921-3449
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.RESCONREC.2025.108363

Material Requirements of Decent Living Standards

Author(s): Johan Andrés Vélex-Henao and Stefan Pauliuk
Published in: Environmental Science & Technology, Issue Vol 57/Issue 38, 2023, ISSN 1520-5851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.EST.3C03957

Tracing fossil-based plastics, chemicals and fertilizers production in China

Author(s): Meng Jiang, Yuheng Cao, Changgong Liu, Dingjiang Chen, Wenji Zhou, Qian Wen, Hejiang Yu, Jian Jiang, Yucheng Ren, Shanying Hu, Edgar Hertwich, Bing Zhu
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-024-47930-0

Industrial sector pathways to a well-below 2 °C world: A global integrated assessment perspective

Author(s): Marianne Zanon-Zotin, Luiz Bernardo Baptista, Pedro R.R. Rochedo, Alexandre Szklo, Roberto Schaeffer
Published in: Applied Energy, Issue 381, 2025, ISSN 0306-2619
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.APENERGY.2024.125173

Future resource efficiency scenarios for the Western Asian and Northern African residential buildings: An exploratory study

Author(s): Sahin Akin, Fabio Carrer, Edgar Hertwich
Published in: Sustainable Cities and Society, Issue 125, 2025, ISSN 2210-6707
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.SCS.2025.106351

Quantifying material stocks in long-lived products: Challenges and improvements for informing sustainable resource use strategies

Author(s): Jan Streeck, André Baumgart, Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann, Bowen Cai, Tomer Fishman, Maud Lanau, Peter Berrill, Zhi Cao, Sebastiaan Deetman, David Frantz, Volker Krey, Alessio Mastrucci, Alessio Miatto, Stefan Pauliuk, Lola Sylvie Annie Rousseau, Shoshanna Saxe, Danielle Densley Tingley, Gamze Ünlü, Dominik Wiedenhofer
Published in: Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Issue 221, 2025, ISSN 0921-3449
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.RESCONREC.2025.108324

Shaping sustainable consumption practices: Changing consumers’ habits through lifestyle changes and Extended Producer Responsibility schemes

Author(s): Darius Corbier, Hazel Pettifor, Maureen Agnew, Miyuki Nagashima
Published in: Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Issue 217, 2025, ISSN 0921-3449
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.RESCONREC.2025.108214

Ecological Economics

Author(s): Stefan Pauliuk
Published in: Ecological Economics, Issue Volume 220, 2024, 108161, 2024, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108161

Demand-side strategies key for mitigating material impacts of energy transitions

Author(s): Felix Creutzig, Sofia G. Simoes, Sina Leipold, Peter Berrill, Isabel Azevedo, Oreane Edelenbosch, Tomer Fishman, Helmut Haberl, Edgar Hertwich, Volker Krey, Ana Teresa Lima, Tamar Makov, Alessio Mastrucci, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, Florian Nachtigall, Stefan Pauliuk, Mafalda Silva, Elena Verdolini, Detlef van Vuuren, Felix Wagner, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Charlie Wilson
Published in: Nature Climate Change, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 1758-678X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41558-024-02016-Z

The geography of circularity missions: A cross-country comparison of circular economy policy approaches in the Global North and Global South

Author(s): Fergus Haswell, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Laura Piscicelli, Detlef P. van Vuuren
Published in: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Issue 52, 2024, ISSN 2210-4224
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.EIST.2024.100883

Nature Communications

Author(s): Marianne Zanon-Zotin; Luiz Bernardo Baptista; Rebecca Draeger; Pedro R. R. Rochedo; Alexandre Szklo; Roberto Schaeffer
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 8050, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52434-y

Scenario analysis of supply‐ and demand‐side solutions for circular economy and climate change mitigation in the global building sector

Author(s): Stefan Pauliuk, Fabio Carrer, Niko Heeren, Edgar G. Hertwich
Published in: Journal of Industrial Ecology, Issue 28, 2024, ISSN 1088-1980
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/JIEC.13557

From single to joint-production under rectangular technology choice

Author(s): Maximilian Koslowski, Edgar Hertwich, Richard Wood
Published in: Economic Systems Research, Issue 37, 2025, ISSN 0953-5314
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/09535314.2024.2445717

Unaddressed non-energy use in the chemical industry can undermine fossil fuels phase-out

Author(s): Marianne Zanon-Zotin, Luiz Bernardo Baptista, Rebecca Draeger, Pedro R. R. Rochedo, Alexandre Szklo, Roberto Schaeffer
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-024-52434-Y

Unpacking bio-based alternatives to ethylene production in Brazil, Europe, and the United States: A comparative life cycle assessment

Author(s): Marianne Zanon-Zotin a c, Clarissa Bergman-Fonte c, Taísa Nogueira Morais c, Pedro Luiz Barbosa Maia c, Lucas Carvalho c, Gerd Angelkorte c, Ana Carolina Oliveira Fiorini c, Pedro Rua Rodriguez Rochedo b c, Joana Portugal-Pereira c d e, Alexandre Szklo c,
Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production, Issue 428, 2023, ISSN 1879-1786
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139376

RASMI: Global ranges of building material intensities differentiated by region, structure, and function

Author(s): Tomer Fishman; Alessio Mastrucci; Yoav Peled; Shoshanna Saxe; Bas van Ruijven
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 11, 418, 2024, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03190-7

TRIPI: A global dataset and codebase of the total resources in physical infrastructure encompassing road, rail, and parking

Author(s): Martijn van Engelenburg, Sebastiaan Deetman, Tomer Fishman, Paul Behrens, Ester van der Voet
Published in: Data in Brief, Issue 54, 2025, ISSN 2352-3409
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110387

Material Source and Waste Taxes in Competitive Equilibrium

Author(s): Reyer Gerlagh, Etienne Lorang
Published in: CESifo Working Paper No. 11091, Issue No. 11091, 2024
Publisher: Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research - CESifo GmbH

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