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Presentation: Michael Lettenmeier World Resources Forum 2015, Davos WS13: Circular Bioeconomy: circular economy meets bioeconomy 13 th October 2015 Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 – The Role of Circular Economy and Bioeconomy
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Presentation: Michael LettenmeierWorld Resources Forum 2015, DavosWS13: Circular Bioeconomy: circular economy meets bioeconomy13th October 2015
Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 –
The Role of Circular Economy and Bioeconomy
Wuppertal Institute
Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 –
The Role of Circular Economy and Bioeconomy
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The Wuppertal Institute
The Material Footprint
The sustainable lifestyle challenge
Finnish lighthouse households
Solutions from circular and bioeconomy
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Sustainability Think Tank
The Wuppertal Institute is one of the largest think tanks for sustainability in Europe
Setting up: 1991 conducted by Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich
von Weizsäcker (president until 2000) followed by
Prof. Peter Hennicke and Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind
Legal status of a non-profit limited company
receiving basic funding from the state of North
Rhine-Westphalia
In the responsibility of the Ministry for Innovation,
Science, Research and Technology of the Land North
Rhine-Westphalia
Ranked under the Top20-Environmental Think Tanks worldwide
180 researchers
150 to 170 projects per year
70% for public clients
30% for private clients
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Overview of Research Fields
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Material footprint
= ecological backpack
Invisible burden any product carries
Measuring resource use
Material Footprint
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Abiotic material resources
+ biotic material resources
+ top soil erosion in agri-/silviculture
Holistic, though rough indicator
Sufficient, input-based indicator
although not addressing individual
environmental problems
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Circular economy
Closing the tap!
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Material Footprint
Composition
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Overall
Environ-
mental
burden
Resource
costs
Overburden,
Excavation from
infrastructure,
leftover
Fossil fuels,
Metals,
Construction
materials
Wood,
Food,
renewable
raw materials
Economically
unused extraction
Economically used
extraction
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200 g of
non-
renewable
resources
30 g of
renewable
resources
40 g of air
300 g of
top soil
erosion
6 litres
of water
700 cm2 of land
A4
Project Examples
Assessing, Comparing and Developing the Resource Efficiency of Coffee
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The One-Planet Challenge
Lifestyle Material Footprint from 40 to 8 tonnes
11 tonnes
6 tonnes
18 tonnes
1,5 tonnes
3 tonnes
2 tonnes
2010 2050
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35 tonnes abiotic
4 tonnes biotic
1 tonne erosion(Kotakorpi et al. 2008)
6 tonnes abiotic
2 tonnes biotic
0.1 tonnes erosion(Bringezu 2009, Bringezu 2015)
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Citizendigital.org
One of the biggest
lifestyle changes in
human history
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Lifestyle Material Footprint
Roadmap towards the Future Household
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Pehkonen’s family: Food
Laukkarinen’s family: Daily mobility
Future Households
Encouraging experiments
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Food from 6 to 3 tonnes
Potential of circular and bioeconomy
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Housing from 11 to 1.6 tonnes
Potential of circular and bioeconomy
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Mobility from 18 to 2 tonnes
Potential of circular bioeconomy
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Conclusions
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Where do circular and bioeconomy meet:
Bioeconomy helps making heavy resource use lighter, e.g. in buildings
Circular economy helps keeping biotic products and materials in use
Sustainable lifestyles foster both circular and bioeconomy:
Smart nutrition releases land use to other purposes
Resource-light housing facilitates sharing solutions
Shared mobility requires less infrastructure
Thank you for your attention!
Michael Lettenmeier
Consultant
Research Group „Sustainable Production and
Consumption“
Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
GmbH, Döppersberg 19
DE-42103 Wuppertal
Tel.: +49 151 50 40 26 19
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