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WORLD RESOURCES FORUM 2017

ACCELERATING THE RESOURCE REVOLUTION

Geneva I Switzerland

October 24 – 25, 2017

This report was drafted by WRF staff based upon inputs from workshop reporters, volunteers, speakers and participants.

The report has not been reviewed by the speakers.

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LIST OF ACRONYMS

▪ 10YFP – 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns

▪ BCI – Better Cotton Initiative ▪ BMUB – German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety

▪ BMZ – German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

▪ CEDARE – Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe

▪ CI-SCP – Consumer Information Programme for Sustainable Consumption and Production

▪ CIDEM – Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de Estructuras y Materiales (Cuba)

▪ CII – Confederation of Indian Industry ▪ COST – European Cooperation in Science & Technology

▪ CO2 – Carbon dioxide ▪ CSA – Coordination and Support Actions ▪ CSC – Concrete Sustainability Council ▪ CSCP – Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production

▪ CSIC – Spanish National Research Council ▪ CSR – Corporate Social Responsibility ▪ CTARA – Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (India)

▪ DA – Development Alternatives Group (India) ▪ DCED – Donor Committee for Enterprise Development

▪ DGNB – German Sustainable Building Council

▪ EASME – Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

▪ EC – European Commission ▪ EELA – Energy Efficiency in small brick enterprises in Latin America

▪ EGS – European Geological Surveys ▪ EIT – European Institute of Innovation and Technology

▪ EPFL – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

▪ EPR – Extended Producer Responsibility ▪ ESM – Entwicklungsfonds Seltene Metalle ▪ FiBL – Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Environment

▪ FOEN – Swiss Federal Office for the Environment

▪ FORAM – World Forum on Raw Materials ▪ FSC – Forest Stewardship Council ▪ GBC – Green Business Centre (India) ▪ GDP – Gross Domestic Product ▪ GEN – Global Ecolabelling Network ▪ GHG – greenhouse gases ▪ GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

▪ INP LEPMI – Institute of Technology, Laboratoire d’Electrochimie et de Physico-chimie des Matériaux et des Interfaces (France)

▪ HFC – hydrofluorocarbons ▪ ICM – Institute of Marine Sciences (Spain) ▪ ICMM – International Council on Mining & Metals

▪ ICT – Information and Communication Technologies

▪ IIT – Indian Institute of Technology ▪ IM – Inclusive Markets ▪ INSTM – National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (Italy)

▪ INTRAW – International Raw Materials Observatory

▪ IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

▪ IRP – International Resource Panel ▪ ISEAL – International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling

▪ ISI – Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research

▪ ISO/IWA – International Organization for Stan-dardization/International Workshop Agreement

▪ ITC – International Trade Centre ▪ IUCN – International Union for Conservation of Nature

▪ KIT, ITAS – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Technology Assessment & System Analysis

▪ KTH – Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) ▪ LCA – Life Cycle Analysis ▪ LEAP – Long range Energy Alternatives Planning System

▪ MEDEAS – Modelling the Renewable Energy Transition in Europe

▪ MICA – Mineral Intelligence Capacity Analysis

▪ MINEA – Mining the European Anthroposphere

▪ MSD – Market Systems Development ▪ NGOs – Non-governmental organizations ▪ NPL – National Physical Laboratory ▪ ODS – ozone depleting substances ▪ OnSSET – Open Source Spatial Electrification Toolkit

▪ OSeMOSYS – Open Source Energy Modelling System

▪ PET – Polyethylene terephthalate ▪ ProSUM – Prospecting Secondary raw ma-terials in the Urban mine and Mining wastes

▪ RAC – refrigeration and air conditioning sector ▪ REProMag – Resource Efficient Production of Rare-Earth Magnets

▪ RSS – Responsible Sourcing Schemes ▪ SDC – Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

▪ SDGs – Sustainable Development Goals ▪ SDS – Shaping, Debinding, Sintering ▪ SIP – Strategic Implementation Plan ▪ SMEs – Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

▪ SPP – Sustainable Public Procurement ▪ SRI – Sustainable Recycling Industries ▪ SSP – Socio-economic Pathway ▪ StEP – Solving the E-waste Problem ▪ STRADE – Strategic Dialogue on Sustainable Raw Materials for Europe

▪ Svemin – Swedish Association of Mines, Mineral and Metal Producers

▪ SWM – solid waste management ▪ TARA – Technology and Action for Rural Advancement (India)

▪ TIMES – integrated Market Allocation-EFOM System

▪ UBA – German Federal Environment Agency ▪ UN – United Nations ▪ UNECE – United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

▪ UNFC – United Nations Framework Classification for Resources

▪ UNIDO – United Nations Industrial Development Organization

▪ UNOG – United Nations Office in Geneva ▪ Uva – University of Valladolid ▪ VITO – Flemish Institute for Technological Research

▪ VTT – Technical Research Centre of Finland ▪ WBCSD - CSI – World Business Council for

Sustainable Development - Cement Sustainability Initiative

▪ WEEE – Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment

▪ WMF – World Materials Forum ▪ WoLiM – World Limits ▪ WRF – World Resources Forum ▪ WRI – World Resources Institute

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction......................................................................8

WRF 2017 Key Messages ................................................9

1 Photo Gallery....................................................12

2 Plenary Sessions Takeaways................................15

3 Workshop Highlights..........................................21

4 Scientific Sessions and Awards.............................59

5 More Highlights.................................................61

6 Participants Survey.............................................63

Appendices

Appendix A: Conference Programme..........................65

Appendix B: Scientific Sessions Programme..................67

Appendix C: Committees..........................................75

Appendix D: Partners................................................81

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Climate change is affecting life and impacting ecosystems, as well as human well-being. A rapid transition towards sustainability is imperative as we can already witness today the threatening effects of temperature rise. The Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) repre-sent a turning point for global action towards minimizing climate change impact and achieving sustainability. To meet these ambitious national commitments, profound changes in the way resources are used are also needed.

The World Resources Forum (WRF) 2017 was held on 24 – 25 October 2017 in Geneva, Swit-zerland. Discussions and activities revolved around the topic “Accelerating the Resource Revolution”, focusing on how resource efficiency supports the battle against today’s most pressing issues.

Over 120 state-of-the-art scientific contributions were presented in the scientific sessions and me-thodologies and success stories were shared during the 16 workshops organized by international institutions. More than 450 participants from 50 countries shared four days of discussions, networking and back to back events.

The following report will present a summary of the main WRF 2017 highlights, including the challen-ges and opportunities debated during plenary sessions, as well as the exiting initiatives and solutions presented throughout the conference.

INTRODUCTION

WRF 2017 KEY MESSAGES


1. Accelerating the Resource Revolution is a multi-stakeholder challenge. Cooperating for resource-efficiency and decoupling is key. Science is essential for understanding the challenges in a systemic way, and communicating the solutions to society.

2. Sustainable Developments Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement are calls for action. In addi-tion to risks of scarcity of specific key mineral resources required for the low-carbon transition, pressure on planetary boundaries, such as climate change and poverty are key challenges. Stop using and investing in coal, oil and gas. Make sure that resource productivity can help achieve the goals. Carbon-free products and resource-efficient housing need to be promoted. Better resource management can also bring about biodiversity conservation. Waiting for economic development before protecting the environment is flawed thinking. We must grow without waste.

3. Appropriate governance and political leadership are essential for sustainable development. To be considered: a UN convention or other global agreements and rules on the sustainable man-agement of and access to raw materials and resource efficiency. The Sustainable Development Goals are interconnected – often the key to their success will involve tackling issues more com-monly associated with one another. Because of the complex interactions, a systemic approach is needed.

4. Transition to a circular economy is an important business opportunity. Metals and cement indus-tries are, among other sectors, well placed for playing a role in the transition. Social dimension needs to be taken into account. An overarching policy framework on circular economy is needed to create a level playing field and allow internalization of costs. Secondary raw materials need to be cheaper than primary raw materials.

5. Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) and product sustainability information can have a big impact and help scale up the circular economy.

6. Circular economy principles and rethinking and redesigning global plastic flows will reduce impacts on our oceans and health.

7. Cooperation and partnerships with private sector are essential for making progress, provided that there are supportive legal and financial frameworks, and reliable key performance indica-tors.

8. There is no guarantee that good science will get uptake from policymakers. One needs to cre-ate its own demand. Science needs to ‘sell the sizzle not the sausage’: focus on the functional, emotional and social benefits for decision-makers and society at large.

9. Accurate, relevant and empowering science builds trust. Transparency and humility are important for improving the relation between science and society.

WRF 2017 MENSAJES PRINCIPALESSpanish


1. La aceleración de la llamada Revolución de los Recursos es un desafío que concierne a múltiples actores. La cooperación y la búsqueda de sinergias son imperativas para el uso eficiente de los recursos y la desvinculación del desarrollo económico de la degradación ambiental. A su vez, el conocimiento científico ayuda a comprender los desafíos de una manera sistémica, y a comunicar las soluciones a nuestra sociedad.

2. Los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de Naciones Unidas y el Acuerdo de París son llamadas de acción. Los retos principales son aquellos que ejercen mayor presión sobre los limites plane-tarios como el cambio climático y la pobreza, además de los riesgos generados por la escasez de ciertos recursos minerales importantes para la transición a una economía baja en carbono. El uso y la inversión en carbono, petróleo y gas deben detenerse para dar paso al cambio. Debemos asegurar que la productividad de los recursos pueda facilitar la consecución de los objetivos. Se deben promover productos libres de carbono y viviendas eficientes en el uso de recursos. Una mejora en la gestión de los recursos puede también resultar en conservación de la biodiversidad. Pensar que el desarrollo económico es necesario antes que la protección del medio ambiente es un razonamiento erróneo – debemos crecer sin residuos.

3. Un buen gobierno y liderazgo político son aspectos esenciales para el desarrollo sostenible. Además, se debe considerar la creación de una convención de las Naciones Unidas u otros acuerdos globales para la gestión sostenible de materias primas y la eficiencia en el uso de los recursos. Los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de las Naciones Unidas están interconectados – para alcanzarlos de manera exitosa se requerirá definir y abordar áreas asociadas unas con otras. Dadas sus complejas interacciones, es necesario un enfoque sistémico.

4. La transición a una economía circular es una oportunidad importante de negocio. Las industrias del cemento y metales, entre otras, están bien posicionadas para desempeñar un papel sig-nificativo en el cambio. Se debe tomar en cuenta la dimensión social. Es necesario un marco político general sobre economía circular que permita las mismas condiciones de participación y la internalización de costos. Además, las materias primas secundarias o recicladas deben ser más económicas que las primarias.

5. Programas de compras públicas sostenibles y de información sobre la sostenibilidad de pro-ductos pueden tener un impacto importante en la transición, y asimismo facilitar la economía circular.

6. La aplicación de los principios de la economía circular, acompañados por el replanteamiento y rediseño de los flujos a nivel global de materiales de plástico, reducirán impactos en nuestros océanos y nuestra salud.

7. La cooperación y las alianzas con el sector privado son relevantes para progresar hacia el de-sarrollo sostenible, siempre y cuando se cuente con el apoyo de marcos legales y financieros, así como indicadores clave de rendimiento.

8. No existe una garantía de que el conocimiento científico reciba aceptación por parte de los políticos y legisladores. Uno necesita crear su propia demanda. La ciencia debe “vender sus ventajas, no sus atributos (original text in English: sell the sizzle not the sausage)”– enfocarse en los beneficios funcionales, emocionales y sociales para los responsables políticos y la sociedad en general.

9. Una ciencia precisa, relevante y que empodera crea confianza. Transparencia y modestia son valores importantes para mejorar la relación entra la ciencia y la sociedad.

WRF 2017 MESSAGES CLÉSFrench


1. Accélérer la transition de l’utilisation des ressources naturelles est un défi qui engage de multiples acteurs. La coopération vers une utilisation efficace des ressources naturelles et le découplage sont essentiels. La science joue un rôle fondamental pour comprendre les défis de façon systé-mique et pour communiquer les solutions à la société.

2. Les Objectifs de Développement Durable et l’Accord de Paris sur le Climat sont des appels à l'action. En plus des risques de pénurie de certaines ressources minérales clés requises pour la transition vers une société à faible émission de carbone, les pressions sur les frontières plané-taires telles que les changements climatiques et la pauvreté sont des défis majeurs. Il faut arrêter l’utilisation et les investissements dans le charbon, le pétrole et le gaz. Il faut s’assurer que la productivité des ressources naturelles peut aider à atteindre les objectifs fixés. Des produits à émissions de carbone nulles et des logements économes en ressources naturelles doivent être en-couragés. Une meilleure gestion des ressources naturelles peut également contribuer à conserver la biodiversité. Il est hasardeux de favoriser le développement économique avant de protéger l'environnement. Nous devons croître sans déchets.

3. Une gouvernance appropriée et une direction politique sont essentielles au développement dura-ble. Doivent être considérés: une convention de l'ONU ou d'autres accords et règles mondiaux sur la gestion durable et l’accès aux matières premières et à l'efficacité des res-sources naturelles. Les Objectifs de Développement Durable sont interconnectés; souvent la clé de leur succès né-cessite d‘affronter des problèmes le plus souvent associés les uns aux autres. En raison de ces interactions complexes, une approche systémique est nécessaire.

4. La transition vers une économie circulaire est une opportunité importante pour les acteurs économiques. Les industries des métaux et du ciment sont - parmi d’autres secteurs - bien placés pour jouer un rôle dans la transition. Les dimensions sociales doivent être prises en compte. Un cadre politique global sur l'économie circulaire est nécessaire pour créer des conditions équita-bles et pour permettre l'internalisation des coûts. Les matières premières secondaires doivent être moins chères que les matières premières primaires.

5. Les Achats Publics Durables (APD) et l'information sur la durabilité des produits peuvent avoir un impact important et aider à promouvoir l'économie circulaire.

6. Les fondements de l'économie circulaire et le fait de repenser et redéfinir les flux mondiaux de plastique réduiront les impacts sur nos océans et sur notre santé.

7. La coopération et les partenariats avec le secteur privé sont essentiels pour progresser; ceci à condition que des cadres juridiques et financiers favorables et des indicateurs de performance clés fiables existent.

8. Il n'y a pas de garantie qu’une démarche scientifique rigoureuse soit prise en compte par les décideurs politiques. Il faut créer sa propre demande. La science doit donner des solutions concrètes: il faut se concentrer sur les bénéfices fonctionnels, émotionnels et sociaux pour les décideurs et la société dans son ensemblet.

9. Une science précise et pertinente renforce la confiance. La transparence et l'humilité sont impor-tantes pour renforcer les relations entre science et société.


1 PHOTO GALLERY


PLENARY I – SETTING THE SCENE & SPECIAL KEYNOTE

Session chair: Bas de Leeuw (Managing Director, WRF)

Speakers Valentin Zellweger (Permanent representative of Switzerland to the United Nations Office and to the other international organizations in Geneva), Xaver Edelmann (President, WRF), Bas de Leeuw (Managing Director, WRF), Cornis van der Lugt (Senior Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University), Giulia Carbone (Deputy Director Global Business and Biodiversity Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature – IUCN) and Jørgen Randers (Professor Emeritus, Climate strategy, BI Norwegian Business School).

Highlights Setting the Scene Session: ▪ Switzerland is committed to a resource efficient economy and the role Geneva plays as global

environmental hub is of great relevance to continue fostering dialogue. ▪ Reliable numbers and scale are crucial – resource productivity and innovations would not be

relevant until they reach massive scale. ▪ Multi-stakeholder dialogues that bring businesses and civil society together are of high im-

portance to target pressing issues. Such processes are complex and difficult to control, time consuming and costly. However, unilateral solutions are significantly less stable and often less beneficial for society. Good multi-stakeholder processes require proper facilitation and a clear vision to meet established goals.

▪ The Resource Revolution has to be accelerated, and what do we mean by Resource Revolution? We understand it to be a new revolution in the way we run our economies, industries and compa-nies, taking into account the Sustainable Development Goals.

2 PLENARY SESSIONS TAKEAWAYS

Valentin Zellweger, permanent repre-

sentative of Switzerland to UNOGGiulia Carbone, IUCN

Cornis van der Lugt, Stellenbosch

University


According to his predictions, energy use and the corresponding CO2 emissions will decrease in the coming years due to enhanced energy productivity and a shift over to renewables. Temperatures will pass +2 degrees by 2050, and then continue to rise. Furthermore, coal and oil use will peak in the 2020s and gas in the 2030s. Climate change and the related impacts will mainly hit already poor regions, such as Bangladesh. As a result, the rate of starvation will rise due to a lack of income among the poor to buy food. The non-energy footprint will stay below the biocapacity, however, biodiversity will still be strongly impacted. According to Randers, consumption will not grow as fast as before, since the need of society to reduce gas emissions and invest more into mitigation measures will create jobs but reduce consumption power.

Taking all these elements together, Randers called on society to stop using and investing in coal, oil and gas and to phase them out by 2050. If we were to do that, we would be able to keep the temperature rise below 1.5 degree and sea level rise below 0.7m. He encouraged participants to continue their efforts to increase resource productivity, yet change the rational towards addressing climate change and poverty and help accelerating the elimination of fossil fuels.

"The world will not run into a resource crisis, but into a poverty and pollution crisis driven

mainly by climate change"

Jørgen Randers BI Norwegian Business School

Highlights Special Keynote with Jørgen Randers Randers started his keynote by referencing the book “The Li-mits to Growth”, which he co-authored in 1972 and in which 12 development scenarios are discussed: six negative ones and six scenarios, where humanity found some solutions to the most pressing challenges. Today, the world is less sustainable than it was in 1972 and while it was difficult to predict the most accurate scenario 40 years ago, nowadays making a forecast for the next 40 years is significantly easier. Randers cited his latest book “2052 – A Global Forecast for the Next Forty years” and noted that the world will not run into a resource crisis, but into a poverty and pollution crisis driven mainly by climate change. Hence, he encouraged participants to argue for the resource revolution as means to fight climate change and poverty.

To make his argument, he presented forecasts for the estima-ted resource use and resource availability until 2052 and highlighted that the demand could be met, also because of a stabilizing world population. He furthermore outlined that the world’s GDP will not grow at the same pace as in the past, mostly because more people will work in the service sector which has a less higher growth rate. Regional differences will be considerable and the number of people living in poverty will also increase.

▪ The SDGs are interconnected – often the key to their success will involve tackling issues more commonly associated with another. They are integrated and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development – economic, social and environmental aspects.

▪ Because of the complex interactions of the many aspects of resource productivity and climate change, we need a systemic approach. System thinking identifies the interactions between diffe-rent parts of a system (i.e. a city, a society, a business sector) and ensures that they deliver more than the sum of the parts. As such, the SDGs offer us a framework to shift our whole system to a sustainable path. Industry representatives have referred to it as the biggest business opportunity of the century.


PLENARY II – COOPERATION FOR RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND DECOUPLING

Session chair: Anders Wijkman (Co-President, Club of Rome)

Speakers Andrey Vasilyev (Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Eu-rope – UNECE), Bernard Mathieu (Head Sustainable Development, LafargeHolcim), John Atherton (Director, Health, Safety and Product Stewardship, International Council on Mining & Metals – ICMM), Marc Chardonnens (Director, Swiss Federal Office for the Environment – FOEN), Victoire de Margerie (Vice President, World Materials Forum – WMF).

Highlights: ▪ Legal systems must support the transition, and enforcement must be ensured. Global standards

and rules are urgently needed. The existing treaties and other international policy frameworks provide a basis, but do not address all aspects fully. An overarching policy framework is therefore needed to create a level playing field and allow the internalization of costs.

▪ To give future generations sufficient resources, conservation of commodities used by industry (e.g. energy and water) is essential, including through resourcing, remediation, and recycling of materials. There is also a need to promote industry’s ability to innovate and to unlock its transformative power.

Victoire de Margerie, WMFMarc Chardonnens, FOEN

Bernard Mathieu, LafargeHolcim John Atherton, ICMM

Andrey Vasilyev,UNECE

There is a need to promote the industry’s ability to innovate and

to unlock its transformative power.


▪ Electrification of production processes is a way forward and is already starting, for example in the mining sector with the implementation of all-electric mining operations. A combination of improving existing technologies and developing new ones is an avenue for progress.

▪ Recycling is one aspect, but reducing weight should also be considered. Producers of different materials could learn from each other in this respect.

▪ Profitability for industry is a key consideration. Without a framework to guide industry, the most cost effective solution will be chosen. A successful solution will be one that is attractive for the industry and “fashionable” for consumers.

▪ Contrary to some beliefs, the industry sectors are very diverse, so there is no unified “voice of industry” that would support the need for regulatory frameworks. Nevertheless, there are groups of companies that strongly convey this message (e.g. by committing to charters or making similar engagements).

▪ Governments have to assist industry with transformation processes. There is a tendency to resist these out of fear of the negative consequences.

▪ There is a need to start the transition to a new economic model. The belief that we are already on the way to decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation is wrong. Fin-dings by the International Resource Panel (IRP) show that material consumption is still growing faster than the economy. As of now, it is not possible to meet the 2 degrees target of the Paris Agreement. At this stage, it is still cheaper to use primary than secondary raw materials. As long as this is the case, there will be no circular economy. To achieve this transition, incenti-ves, standards, and taxes are necessary.


PLENARY III – SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

Session chairs: Sonia Valdivia (Program Manager, WRF) and Kenneth Ochoa (Director, Environ-mental Engineering Programme, El Bosque University)

Speakers Doaa Abdel-Motaal (Executive Director, Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health, Oxford Martin School), Harry Lehmann (General Director, Environmental Planning and Sus-tainability Strategies, German Federal Environment Agency – UBA), Janez Potočnik (Co-Chair, UN Environment IRP, former EC), Mathis Wackernagel (President, Global Footprint Network), Solitaire Townsend (Founder, Futerra).

Highlights: ▪ Evidence-based science is readily available, but the challenge is to make it digestible for

policy-makers and society. Collaboration between scientists and policy makers is of great importance to engage against the impacts of environmental issues. Science needs to present clear policy-relevant messages.

▪ Transparent and democratic science-based processes can conquer the public, foster engage-ment and activism. Accuracy, relevance and empowerment build trust.

▪ Reactionary solutions are not enough, the roots of issues such as environmental degradation must be the focus of solutions – systemic thinking is key.

▪ Helping society understand and providing relevant solutions for challenges that are significant to people can be achieved by including society in the discussion. Furthermore, collaboration between different groups of scientists to capture human needs play an important role – beha-vioural and social scientists will deliver valuable input.

Doaa Abdel-Motaal, Oxford Martin SchoolSolitaire Townsend, Futerra

Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network Janez Potočnik, IRP

Harry Lehmann, UBA


PLENARY IV – INITIATIVES SHAPING THE FUTURE OF RESOURCE EFFICIENCY

Session chairs: Bas de Leeuw (Managing Director, WRF)

Two international initiatives committed to shaping a sustainable future were presented during this special plenary session, showing that multi-stakeholder processes and collaboration between sectors can lead to concrete sustainable solutions that benefit everybody.

Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability InformationSpeakers Steven Stone (Chief, Resources and Markets Branch, UN Environment), Regina Taimasova (Advisor on Sustainability Standards and Value Chains, Trade for Sustainable Development Programme, International Trade Centre – ITC), Norma Tregurtha (Policy and Outreach Director, International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling – ISEAL Alliance), Bettina Heller (Associate Programme Officer, Consumption and Production Unit, UN Environment). Moderator: Ian Fenn (Sustainable Consumption Manager, Consumers International).

The Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information are the result of a comprehensive global consultation process, led by UN Environment and the International Trade Centre (ITC) with the goal to make sustainable consumption the easy option. The Guidelines provide a multi-stakeholder approach and foster reliable sustainability communication about products by means of a set of high level principles (from fundamental to aspirational) suited for developed and developing countries and companies of all sizes. The Guidelines were launched at the WRF 2017 on 25 October and discussed by experts and stakeholders involved in the development of the guidelines. Find more details here: http://www.scpclearinghouse.org/resource/guidelines-providing-product-sustainability-information

New Plastics EconomySpeakerJoss Blériot (Executive Officer, Ellen MacArthur Foundation)

The New Plastics Economy is a three-year initiative by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation that seeks to transform the way plastics are used, going from a linear to a circular model, by bringing all the rele-vant players together to innovate, collaborate and re-think plastics. For more details visit the official website: http://www.newplasticseconomy.org

Launch of the Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information Joss Blériot, Ellen MacArthur Foundation


WS 1 – THE E-WASTE CHALLENGE

The workshop-series aimed to facilitate the exchange of views from different stakeholder groups like government, industry, and academia on e-waste challenges and solutions through international initiatives and national implementation.

Organizers: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – GIZ GmbH WRF Sustainable Recycling Industries Programme – SRI Solving the E-Waste Problem Initiative – StEP

Session I – Towards International Solutions

Chair: Elisabeth Smith (StEP Initiative)

Regulatory, financial and technical framework conditions for sustainable e-waste and secondary me-tals value chains are missing in many countries. Although some are initiating regulatory and private sector activities, environmental and social standards are often not enforced. This session addressed the following guiding questions:

▪ Can international development agencies contribute to establish sustainable take-back and collection schemes, as well as recycling models?

▪ How can international companies and organizations support sustainable e-waste manage-ment practices in developing and emerging economies?

▪ Can standards for the international metals market help improving these practices?

Input presentations:

1. Elisabeth Smith re-introduced the StEP initiative to the community. She presented the achievements of StEP, its values and benefits and highlighted the focus topics of the initiative for 2017/2018.

2. Ellen Gunsilius and Michael Funcke-Bartz presented the priorities of a new position paper of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) regarding e-waste management, as well as the approach of ongoing German development cooperation projects in Ghana and on global level.

3. Sonia Valdivia introduced the Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) initiative and focused on the ISO/IWA Guidance Principles for inclusive recycling which have been developed within the program.

3 WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS


Discussions during the World Café session:

1. International conventions and E-WasteThe influence of international conventions on the establishment of sustainable e-waste manage-ment was discussed. It was highlighted that often local capacity and financing is lacking in order to properly implement the requirements of international conventions. Moreover, it was discussed how the various secretariats could ensure better communication between recyclers and producers (e.g. regarding the use of hazardous materials). It was concluded that the implementation of the conventions is often missing at a country level and it was discussed if a new integrated conven-tion is needed for tackling circular economy as such.

2. Best-of-2-Worlds ApproachThe Best-of-2-Worlds Approach proposes to achieve the most sustainable solutions for e-waste tre-atment in developing countries by means of combining best techniques for manual-pre-processing locally – with proper environmental, safety and health standards – and for high-tech end-proces-sing internationally1. The implementation, benefits and challenges of the concept were discus-sed. The role of national and international players was challenged and a cash gap between the dismantling and recycling process could be identified. One option could be the establishment of a sub-regional component. One key element for the successful implementation of the concept is the integration of the informal sector. Incentives for the informal sector need to be provided in order to become formalized. However, the question where the incentives come from and who pays (consumer, producer or importer) remains.

3. E-Waste in 2050The discussion focused on potential future quantities, qualities and ownership. A general increase of volumes can be expected, but appliances themselves will get smaller. Furthermore, the use of new material and the mix of material will make recycling more complex. Therefore, producers should provide more insights for recyclers. Since electronics will be embedded in day-to-day goods like wearables, it can be expected that the share of e-waste ending up in municipal solid waste will increase.

4. International standards for e-waste managementThe ISO/IWA Guidance Principles for Sustainable Management of Secondary Metals tackle the challenge of tracking sustainable recovery of waste that contains metals by proposing five sus-tainability principles and 17 objectives, a gradual implementation approach and an assurance system and traceability mechanism addressed to all involved stakeholders2.

Based on the input presentation describing the ISO/IWA Guidance Principles, the group discussed how the implementation of standards is feasible and how the recycling sector can best benefit from standards. It was concluded that standards need to be tailored to countries’ specific needs and contexts. In order to show case best practices, standards are needed, but a clearer benefit for the informal sector is required to ensure that the standard is implemented. In general, the awareness and understanding of standards need to be improved.

1Wang, F., Huisman, J., Meskers, C., Schluep, M., Stevels, A. & Hagelüken, C. (2012). The Best-of-2-Worlds philosophy: Developing local dismantling and global infrastructure network for sustainable e-waste treatment in emerging economies. Waste Management 32(11), 2134-2146. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2012.03.029

2International Organization for Standardization [ISO]. (2017). IWA 19:2017 Guidance Principles for the sustainable management of secondary metals. More information can be found here: https://www.iso.org/standard/69354.html


Session II – Towards National Implementation

Chair: Ellen Gunsilius (GIZ)

Based on the discussions of Session I, this session enabled exchange on possible steps for improving e-waste management at the national level and types of collaboration needed between stakeholders. The session explored:

▪ Suitable mechanisms in developing and emerging economies to involve manufacturers, importers and distributers of electric and electronic products, and consumers in take-back and financing controlled handling of e-waste.

▪ Feasible mechanisms for linking informal and formal e-waste collectors and recyclers to improve recycling practices.

▪ The responsibilities and dialogue mechanisms of regulators, manufacturers, retailers and other stakeholders to move from legal frameworks to implementation.

Speakers explained the situation in Ghana, Colombia and India:

1. Levina Owusu (Ministry of Environment, Ghana) explained the contents of the new legal frame-work for sustainable management of e-waste in Ghana (e.g. involving an advanced eco law). She also gave information about next steps for setting up a fund and mechanisms for take-back systems and involving informal workers.

2. Sandra Mendez (WRF) explained the process and contents of the Colombian e-waste policy that systematically addressed the remaining challenges to implement existing legislation.

3. Rachna Arora (GIZ, India) presented Indian experiences on integrating informal e-waste collectors and dismantlers, and explored options for the way forward on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and informal sector integration in India.

Working Groups focused on the following questions:

Group 1: Manufacturers, importers, distributers, government: shared responsibility = nobody’s responsibility?Challenges were identified, such as getting producers to commit, not having regulations in place or lacking enforcement of these. To bring the relevant stakeholders to the negotiating table, governments should take the initiative and create incentives, also assigning and informing about the responsibilities of the different stakeholders. It should also propose mechanisms to cover the costs of processing, and engage a dialogue with all relevant stakeholders about the appropriate national mechanism.

World Café session and group discussion

It is important to agree on who should bear the costs. For instance, in Switzerland and in California consumers pay through advan-ced recycling fees. In Japan, consumers pay when they dispose their e-waste at end of life. A new idea to link the fee to the energy bill was proposed in Ethiopia, as this is re-lated to the possession of electrical goods.


Group 2: Informal and formal e-waste recycling – can it be linked? The most relevant part of the value chain for informal-formal partnerships is at the collection stage, as informal actors often control the access to e-waste. It is also important to target waste aggregators or scrap dealers to whom collectors sell waste. Formal and informal sector can be in competition, so a mediating interface organization could be useful. Informal workers should therefore aim to get orga-nized, for example, in cooperatives. A first step could be the provision of ID cards, or recognition by calling informal workers 'resource recoverers' not 'waste pickers'. Is a formal partnership necessary, or is offering an appropriate value proposition enough? An example is the refund systems for PET bottles. Forcing to formalize is not realistic, as informal actors also need to have a benefit from formalizing and the stronger the informal sector, the harder the enforcement will be.

Business partnerships become more interesting for larger formal companies if being presented with higher volumes. They are also dependent on getting a decent quality of “non-cherry-picked” waste. Partnerships can function if additional subsidies from producers or government for 1) compliance with standards and 2) dealing with low material values are provided. The management of these funds must be transparent and by an independent third party. To bring in the informal sector, the subsidy should allow formal recyclers to pay informal collectors a fair price for their goods. This can take place via an interface, or via a collection hub. Setting up such a system is highly price sensitive: only main brands are interested in paying more as they need to protect their good image. Digital solutions can offer transparency on payments, tracking where waste goes and even giving consumer incentives for take-back. One can use such technologies to register informal actors and give mobile payments.

Group 3: Who takes the first step? From legal frameworks to implementation.Government and industry pilots can be used to test the feasibility of systems, bring them into national legislation and disseminate to stakeholders. For example, good experiences from Colombia were discussed, where a voluntary producer initiative was "pressed" by the government. This was then trans-lated into legislation providing financial incentives for return/take-back. Level playing field requires government intervention.

Identifying institutions which can take a coordinating role for setting up take-back and recycling systems (producer responsibility organization/compliance schemes require appropriate stakeholder engagement organized by Ministries of Environment). These institutions should be transparent (“no black-box”), independent from government and have an interest/mandate for e-waste take-back.Enforcement agencies need capacity building and stakeholders need to be informed about the legisla-tion. Guidelines can be useful in this sense. International experiences should be shared and academia should be involved. Additional financing for enforcement also needs to be provided.Mechanisms for (seed-) funding, such as eco-levy at point of import, non-economic incentives, Corpo-rate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds, or EPR funds/advanced recycling fees should be established.

More information: GIZ: [email protected] www.giz.de/en/worldwide/15109.html StEP: smith@step-initiative www.step-initiative.org/WRF: [email protected] www.sustainable-recycling.org/

Partners: Ministry of Environment Ghana; EU-funded GIZ Resource Efficiency projectin India; Sofies; Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe – CEDARE



WS 2 – SUSTAINABLE SOURCING OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS

Organizer: Concrete Sustainability Council – CSC

Chair: Bernard Mathieu (LafargeHolcim)

Population growth and increased urbanization is driving the demand for construction materials. Si-multaneously, the public sensitivity for responsible sourcing of products and services is also rising. It is therefore key that construction materials are sourced responsibly, triggering improvement not only of the certified construction product, but also positively influencing the entire supply chain.

Under the guidance of Bernard Mathieu, panellists discussed with the audience around the following questions:

▪ Why are responsible sourcing certifications becoming increasingly important? ▪ What are the essential challenges of responsible sourcing of construction materials and how

should these questions be addressed? ▪ What is the market expectation when looking at responsible sourcing of materials?

Speakers:

1. Giulia Carbone (Deputy Director, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature – IUCN)

2. Anna Braune (Director Research and Development, German Sustainable Building Council – DGNB)

3. Norma Tregurtha (Director of Policy and Outreach, ISEAL Alliance)4. S Karthikeyan (Principal Counsellor, CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre – CII-Godrej

GBC)5. Stefan van Uffelen (Coordinator, Concrete Sustainability Council – CSC)6. Cuno van Geet (Senior Advisor Resource Efficiency, Rijkswaterstaat Environment, Dutch Ministry

of Infrastructure and the Environment)7. Leo Dekker (Manager Technology & Sustainability, Mebin B.V., HeidelbergCement Group)

Discussion:Bernard Mathieu opened the workshop mentioning the purpose of the two-hour discussion:

▪ to educate the audience on the importance of responsible sourcing of building materials for the whole construction sector

▪ to present the journey the Concrete Sustainability Council has undertaken to develop the first comprehensive label for concrete, cement and aggregates

▪ to hear about successful initiatives in this field, the main drivers, challenges and solutions for the deployment of responsible sourcing schemes for building materials

Giulia Carbone argued that it is key to create a credible scheme which connects what happens on the ground with the whole business value chain. Responsible Sourcing Schemes (RSS) must ensure that the original footprint of the product is communicated and acknowledged along the value chain in a responsible way. Carbone concluded that certifications play a vital role in communicating the voluntary actions undertaken by a business and should take into account the stakeholders’ view.


Society will have more and more voice on products’ sustainability and RSS is the tool to ensure that the right choices are made.

Anna Braune presented the view of the German Green Building Label System (DGNB), on responsible sourcing of construction materials. DGNB is a reference when talking about sustainable buildings, not only for Germany, but also for other countries. The sustainable building market is growing and so are its requirements which will increasingly consider materials and how they are sourced. Braune regret-ted the lack of interest of public authorities in this field and encouraged politicians to be bold and set enabling frameworks which would trigger the market of sustainable construction. She concluded that undertaking sustainable building certifications is the right way to go. It ensures transparency, spurs innovation, increases brand value and reputation thus reducing risk and regulatory compliance costs.

Moving forward, Norma Tregurtha showed the audience trends and insights from the ISEAL Alliance, a community of sustainability standards. She mentioned that agriculture has been the forerunner of sustainable certification, but many other sectors have joined since, showing that standards are gro-wing in importance. The main drivers of standards are the will to communicate companies’ voluntary commitments, the SDGs, new legislative frameworks, finance requirements and the need to secure the supply chain. Tregurtha concluded by saying that the business case is clear: certification creates economic value, but it needs to be credible, multi-stakeholder in their approach, capable to create innovation and to show and measure continuous performance.

Successful initiatives launched in different regions were also presented to the audience. An example from India was given by S Karthikeyan who introduced the GreenPro certification for building mate-rials. In India, the demand for sustainable buildings is increasing as well as the demand for credible green building products, said Karthikeyan. Following this trend, the industry felt the need to develop a certification for products and materials, adapted to the Indian market and based on life cycle as-sessment and international standards. Through this certification, currently available for 15 categories of building products, consumers and professionals are able to make an informed decision.

Stefan van Uffelen presented the journey that the CSC has undertaken to develop the first compre-hensive label for concrete, cement and aggregates. Certification is a strong instrument to scale-up, harmonize and standardize sustainability practices and raise awareness throughout the whole value chain. Alignment with rating systems, fiscal programs, green public procurement and instruments from the financial sector is key. Next step is to measure and report the impact on, for example, the SDGs.

Workshop presentation by Cuno van Geet

The institutional perspective was provided by Cuno van Geet who pointed out that Green Public Pro-curement is a key driver for change. Sustainable products need sustainable clients and incentives to be successful. The government, being an important client for building and infrastructure, developed in-struments like ‘CO2 prestatieladder’3 and the LCA calculator (DuboCalc). The scores gained out of these instruments count in the procurement decision beyond the lowest price criteria. In the EU, van Geet concluded, procurers need to collaborate more with the market.

3CO2 prestatieladder (CO2 performance ladder in English) is a tool that helps companies reduce CO2 output. For more information visit: www.skao.nl/home_en


Leo Dekker shared with participants his experience as user of the CSC Certification. He explained why his company invested in the certification and how it benefitted from it. In the Netherlands, Dek-ker explained, there is an advanced sustainability policy and legal framework, as well as a strong institutional recognition for these initiatives which are expected to increase. Other materials will soon be in demand of RSS certification, such as precast and aggregates. He mentioned that completing the certification and involving the total chain of custody was not easy and while it is manageable for a large company, it can be a serious challenge for smaller ones. Dekker concluded by saying that the CSC must gain in recognition by different stakeholders and reach the same level of reputation as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

The presentations were followed by a vibrant discussion with the audience.

Concluding the workshop, Mathieu asked the panellist about the priority actions, among those discussed, to accelerate the deployment of the Concrete Sustainability Responsible Sourcing System:

▪ Invest on this certification to convince the rest of the market that the sector values it ▪ Diffuse the system broadly to reach a critical mass and convince public authorities to recog-

nize it in public procurement ▪ Convince politicians to recognize voluntary actions which reduce impacts on environment

and climate change ▪ Create awareness and create demand on end users ▪ Involve stakeholders ▪ Understand how to include China ▪ Harmonize and improve synergies with other standards

More information: CSC: [email protected] www.concretesustainabilitycouncil.org/

Partners: World Business Council for Sustainable Development – WBCSD I Cement Sustainability Initiative – CSI. Website: www.wbcsdcement.org/


WS 3 – RISK & RACE: THE GAME OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Organizer: Flemish Institute for Technological Research – VITO

Chair: Saskia Manshoven (VITO)

The Risk & Race game is an engaging and hands-on way to learn about the opportunities and challenges of the circular economy. It is a table top board game, designed to induce an entrepreneu-rial mind-set and introduce players to entrepreneurial decision making and circular economy business models. The game is designed for entrepreneurs, professionals and higher education students.

Throughout the gameplay, players gained insight into: ▪ The difference between linear and circular business models ▪ Circular economy strategies, such as circular product design, recycling and remanufacturing ▪ Circular business models, such as pay-per-use, take-back systems and life time extension ▪ The effects of investments on their business performance and resilience against external events.

After playing Risk & Race, players have a better understanding of how circular economy strategies and business models can contribute to a company’s resilience and success. The next step is to apply and translate these concepts to your own products, company or context.

Risk & Race was developed in collaboration with Wuppertal Institute, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Delft University of Technology (TUDelft) and In the loop Games, with the support of EIT Raw Materials.

Speakers:

1. Saskia Manshoven (VITO)2. Jeroen Gillabel (VITO)3. Katherine Whalen (Lund University)

Participants playing Risk & Race


After playing the game, participants were asked to formulate their main learnings and eye-openers. The game was perceived as very suitable for higher education and business education on circu-lar economy strategies.

Main conclusions: ▪ Entrepreneurs are always struggling with

their management of resources: money, personnel, raw materials. Making informed and strategic business decisions is crucial to entrepreneurship.

▪ It is important to distinguish between short- term and long-term strategies for success.

▪ External events and factors beyond a company’s control can highly affect profit margins and business strategies.

▪ Circular economy strategies often require high upfront investments, while potential benefits have a longer-term horizon.

▪ Circular business strategies require deliberate design choices to enable repair, longer use, remanufacturing, etc.

▪ The inner circles of circular economy (repair, reuse, remanufacturing) are more powerful than outer circles (recycling) where material losses are still relatively high.

More information: VITO: [email protected] www.riskandrace.vito.be

Partners: EIT Raw Materials.Website: www.eitrawmaterials.eu

Participants playing Risk & Race


4World Commission on Environment and Development (1987). Our Common Future [Report]. Retrieved from http://www.un-documents.net/our-common-future.pdf

WS 4 – STRATEGIC RAW MATERIALS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Organizers: ESM Foundation EIT Raw Materials United Nations Economic Commission for Europe – UNECE Chairs: Alessandra Hool (ESM Foundation), Roland Gauß (EIT Raw Materials) and Harikrishnan Tulsidas (UNECE)

The successful achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the imple-mentation of the Paris Agreement require new technologies and a paradigm shift in the use of raw materials towards a circular and sustainable future. Strategic Raw Materials are indispensable for a sustainable world-wide access to energy, information, and new forms of mobility. Considering a variety of global and regional factors, however, these materials can bear a high supply risk.

According to the Brundtland report4, Sustainable Development is a process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development, and institutional change are made consistent with future as well as present needs. Where material supply risks exist or availability may be accompanied by environmental and other impact, future supply and demand strategies of these materials have to be thoroughly considered.

To provide a sound basis for these considerations, a transparent assessment of resources – including also the impact of breakthrough technologies and their socio-economic implications – is critical for assuring the materials availability for accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goals in the long-term. The United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC) is an internationally appli-cable scheme for the classification and reporting of energy and mineral resources. UNFC classifies resources in three dimensions: knowledge and uncertainty about the resource, project feasibility to attain them, and socio-economic viability. Current efforts such as the COST Action MINEA (Mining the European Anthroposphere) aim at integrating anthropogenic resources into resource classification Frameworks. Such undertakings are of fundamental importance to estimate global and regional recy-cling potentials to keep materials in the economic cycle and thus ensuring sustainable availability of strategic raw materials.

The workshop covered crucial aspects of strategic raw materials management, their integration into classification frameworks, their potential for a circular economy, and their role in Sustainable Develop-ment. Speakers included experts in criticality assessment, resource classification, resource recovery, and sustainable management of strategic raw materials.

Speakers:

1. Julian Hilton (United Nations Framework Clasification for Resources – UNFC Sustainable De-velopment Goals Delivery Working Group)


2. Luis Tercero (ESM Foundation and Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research – ISI)3. Michael Haschke (DMT GmbH and UNFC Mineral Working Group)4. Esthatios Peteves (Joint Research Center, European Commission)5. Soraya Heuss-Assbichler (University of Munich and UNFC Anthropogenic Resources Working

Group)6. Alexandra Pehlken (University of Oldenburg)7. Christian Hagelüken (ESM Foundation and Umicore)8. Erika Ingvald (Geological Survey of Sweden)

Active and vivid discussions

Main conclusions: ▪ Sustainable development is fundamentally linked to the access to critical raw materials. Poten-

tial bottlenecks must be considered along the entire supply chain, addressing raw materials, semi-finished as well as finished products. Mitigation measures to ensure sustainable future supply have to be taken today.

▪ It is crucial to define objectives on how to competently and responsibly manage raw materials along the whole value chain. Secondary raw materials sourcing will become increasingly important, but mining will still be needed, requiring innovative approaches to tackle aspects of social responsibility and ecological impact. Innovations in mining might also make more raw materials accessible.

▪ Reliable data and effective policy interventions can only be developed in a defined frame-work and require improved collaboration of all involved actors in a more transparent system approach.

More information: ESM: [email protected] www.esmfoundation.org/about/

ENTWICKLUNGSFONDS SELTENE METALLE

Partners: Other contributors: Karen Hanghøj (EIT Raw Materials), Karl Vrancken (VITO), Kerstin Binnen (Swedish Association of Mines, Mineral and Metal Producers – Svemin), Constantin Ciupagea (Joint Research Center, European Commission), Keisuke Nansai (NIEMS), Hans-Jürgen Wachter (Heraeus), Steven Young (University of Waterloo), Armin Reller (ESM Foundation and University of Augsburg), Vitor Correia (European Federation of Geologists)

WS 5 – DIGITAL FOR SUSTAINABILITY: IN NEED FOR A DISRUPTIVE RESEARCH AGENDA

Organizers: Innaxis Research Institute Texelia AG Circular Change

Chairs: Joséphine von Mitschke-Collande (Innaxis Research Institute) and Soumaya EL Kadiri (Texelia AG)

Moderator: Ladeja Godina Košir (Circular Change)

Speaker:

1. Carlos Alvarez Pereira (Innaxis Research Institute)

"Digital Transformation" is the buzz phrase of the day. Since the 1980s an explosive growth has hap-pened in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), inducing concepts such as disruption, dematerialization and zero marginal costs which created the belief that digital tech will contribute to the achievement of low resource consumption.

During his introduction to the workshop, Carlos Alvarez Pereira (President of Innaxis and CEO of Texelia) presented the overall challenges regarding the turn that the current developments of ICT are taking. In particular, the lack of research focusing on the relationship between digital tech and sustainability was stressed. He emphasized that the myth of the ICT revolution having a tremendous positive impact as an instrument of sustainable development has to be debunked. Figures show that greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions induced by digital tech are growing at a pace of 6% per year, which is the fastest growing rate of all sectors. Digital tech related waste production is growing 2 to 3 times faster than any other source of waste. Unfortunately, recycling rates are low and are reaching only 10 to 15%. Even worse the recycling rate is only 1% for rare earth elements, an indispensable component to produce so many digital artefacts. Moreover, energy consumption linked to digital tech is becoming huge and will increase in the coming years with the introduction of energy intensive endeavours such as Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.

The presentation highlighted the ultimate goal of sustainability, namely enabling societies to achieve high levels of well-being with a low footprint. However, as current figures show, the supposedly claimed disruption of ICT will not be sustainable and “green”, nor will it be a positive disruption for humanity. Undoubtedly, we are set on a development path causing acclaimed solutions of today to become the problems of tomorrow.

The discussion during the workshop covered a broad range of topics related to the issue. One of the core interests of the discussion was the role of initial framings regarding technological innovation and its application. The following comment from a participant is synonymous of what needs to be considered: “If the company (e.g. Uber) is an answer, what was the initial question?” Hence what kind of initial questions are addressed during the development process of technologies? Innova-tion is never neutral and reflects nationally established research strategies which are supported by governmental investments.



The myth that Silicon Valley innovations and industries emerged without governmental subventions has been disproven by Mariana Mazzucato and her analysis of the predominant role of state funding for high-risk investments in digital technologies are not to be dismissed. Innovation strategies reflect, as well a particular organization of society, certain implicit values, interests and economic goals. In this sense, the role of integrating sustainability in the initial design, having a design on purpose approach is essential to gear them to address the challenges humanity is facing. Participants stressed that very often current innovation strategies create so called “solutions” but the problem they would address still needs to be created, which frequently is conceptualized by a marketing department aiming to push further for unneeded materialistic consumption.

Consequently, the role of regulation has to be discussed, in particular the neutrality of it and the issue of timing. Innovation outcomes are generated by experimentation but at some point, incentives are required to route the innovation in a certain direction. Further research would enable to better deter-mine the best timing and scope of these incentives. However, siloed and non-dynamic approaches of regulation have contributed to reinforce unintended negative consequences. Participants raised the issue of those incentives capable of reproducing social power structures and their inability to go beyond simple modifications, as they are incapable to push for deep societal transformation. Further-more, incentives put in place lack reactivity to embrace rapid change. Regulators and governance structures in general need to be capable to cope with emergence and be able to handle the speed of ICT developments.

Participants stressed that the active participation of all stakeholders would be key to reap the benefits of ICT for the common good, in order to co-create together in an "innovation democracy" environment. All innovations may have negative consequences, whether they be high resource consumption, data privacy or algorithms biases, therefore processes that have the capacity for absorbing risks of (un)intended consequences need to be put in place. The integration of social innovation and co-creation processes has been stressed as being a mean to cope with negative consequences before they are even produced.

Finally, the dichotomy of the positive versus negative approaches regarding digital tech were discussed and the necessity to foster public dialogues which integrate experts and non-experts were identified as being essential, as the issue is too important to be discussed outside of the public sphere. The integration of social sciences in order to achieve approaches beyond techno-centrism was stressed by the participants as being a key feature for a systemic and transdisciplinary research approach for the subject.

Workshop discussion with Carlos Alvarez Pereira

Main conclusions: ▪ The discussion and lively debate that resulted within the workshop participants reinforced the

idea that initiating a research agenda integrating a systems approach and introducing the complexity of the issues is needed. The framing of technological development and innovation has to be carefully analysed and evaluated and this must be at the core of initiating a novel research agenda. Unconventional and perhaps inconvenient questions have to be asked, in order to be able to go beyond hyped assumptions. Systems based approaches, integrating the complexity of the issue on a societal, environmental, economic and governmental level will enable to truly put digital disruption at work for humanity. Innaxis and its partners will continue the dialogue on this issue in order to build up a collaboration of interested parties for setting-up an engaging research agenda, followed by the elaboration of concrete project proposals to be submitted to specific funding institutions.

More information: Innaxsis: www.innaxis.org/ Texelia AG: www.texelia.com/ Circular Change: www.circularchange.com/



WS 6 – MEDEAS PROJECT: RESOURCES, CLIMATE AND THE FUTURE IN EUROPE

Organizer: Institute of Marine Sciences – ICM of the Spanish National Research Council – CSIC

Chairs: Jordi Solé (ICM-CSIC)

The transition to a low carbon economy needs to achieve multiple aims: competitiveness, protection of the environment, creation of quality jobs, and social welfare. Thus policy-makers and other key stakeholders require tools that need to focus beyond the energy sector by including these other do-mains of economy, society and the environment. Currently, most available tools lack integration of these important areas despite being tightly connected to the energy sector. Moreover, current energy modelling tools often lack documentation, transparency and have been developed for a specialized insider audience, which makes validation and comparison of results, as well as independent review impossible. MEDEAS project aims to solve the current needs of integration and transparency by de-veloping a leading-edge policy modelling tool based on WoLiM (World Limits), TIMES (integrated Market Allocation-EFOM System) and LEAP (Long range Energy Alternatives Planning System) models and incorporating Input-Output Analysis that allows for accounting of environmental, social and economic impacts. The modular design of the tool will take into account the necessary flexibility to deal with different levels and interests of stakeholders at great sectorial and spatial detail. Finally, transparency will be achieved through an open access freeware distribution of the model based on the open access programming language (Python), providing a detailed user manual, addressed to a wider non-specialist audience, and including free internet courses and learning materials.

The workshop goals were to introduce the MEDEAS model and scenarios at world level, and discuss the preliminary results with the participants in order to obtain their feedback.

Speakers:

1. Jordi Solé (ICM-CSIC) on Openness, Sharing and Reproducibility in Energy Models: the ME-DEAS project

2. Ugo Bardi (University of Florence, Italy) on MEDEAS: The Legacy of “The Limits to Growth”3. Ilaria Perissi (National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology – INSTM)

on Applications of Dynamic Models to Economic Systems: scenarios for the world’s reduction of carbon emissions

4. Luis Javier Miguel González (University of Valladolid) on Feedback Between Energy Resources and the Economy in the MEDEAS Global Model and Key Points for the Energy Transition To-wards a Low Carbon Economy in the MEDEAS Global Model

Discussion: ▪ Availability of the MEDEAS source model and terms of use and conditions, licenses. ▪ Seneca cliff – Three equations models have the ability to capture the rapid decline in re-

sources production. Simple models can help to understand the behaviour in more complex/detailed models.

▪ MEDEAS scenarios – scenarios as a framework for guiding the transition to a low carbon economy. The importance of considering the CO2 emissions in the energy transition. Shared Socio-economic Pathway (SSP) 2 scenario as the MEDEAS business as usual scenario.


▪ MEDEAS model structure and main hypotheses – feedback between energy resources and the eco-nomy: how to combine Input-Output Tables with sys-tem dynamics models.

▪ MEDEAS preliminary results – Importance of conside-ring the energy consumed and the cooling from non-electric systems. Renewable energy sources limits: a key issue to be analysed.

Main conclusions: ▪ MEDEAS is an open source, community based suit

of models: World (available online from February 2018), Europe, Austria and Bulgaria.

▪ MEDEAS scenarios are used as a framework for gui-ding the transition to a low carbon economy. Such scenarios are aligned with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Shared Socio-economic Pathways and are considering carbon budget and CO2 emissions for the different scenarios till 2050.

Workshop presentation by Luis Javier Miguel


More information: MEDEAS: www.medeas.eu

Partners: ICM-CSIC (www.icm.csic.es/en/presentation). Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM) belongs to the CSIC’s Natural Resources Area and is the largest marine research centre in Spain and one of the most important in the Mediterranean region. The institute’s long experience and a team of over 200 specialists in different fields of oceanographic research (physics, chemistry, geology and biology) give the ICM a broad vision of the marine ecosystem, and the ability to assess changes and human impacts on the environment and seek appropriate solutions.INSTM (www.instm.it/en/instm.aspx). INSTM stands for the “National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology”, the largest consortium of its kind in Italy, drawing on the expertise of 47 Italian universities. The individual universities’ voluntary affiliation with INSTM allows their Research Professors and Fellows to par-ticipate in the Consortium’s activities through the presentation of research proposals. Uva (www.eis.uva.es/energiasostenible/?lang=en). The University of Valladolid is one of the most important centers of Higher Education in Spain. It counts on four campuses – Valladolid, Palencia, Segovia and Soria –, over 100 degrees, 80 doc-toral programs (14 with Honor Mention) and 68 postgraduate degree, accredited international relations and prestigious research Centers.

▪ Renewable energy sources limits: a key issue to be analysed. The model can show the interactions between energy sources and mineral use together with climate change impacts.

▪ Feedback between energy resources and economy: how Input-Output Tables can be combined with system dynamics models.

The MEDEAS world model and database will be available from February 2018 at www.medeas.eu. After registration, both database and model will be available for download for any interested user. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation pro-gramme under Grant Agreement No 691287.


WS 7 – GREEN PRODUCT CERTIFICATION IN INDIA

Organizers: United Nations Industrial Development Organization – UNIDO Confederation of Indian Industry – CII

Chair: Suresh Kennit Gnanaswamy (UNIDO, India)

UNIDO and the CII have taken first steps in the establishment of a rating system for Green Products (GreenPro) for Indian products. The aim was to build new rating systems in order to avoid a lasting dependence on external ones, developed mainly in other countries that are not tailored to the indus-trial processes and regulations in India. GreenPro is a holistic framework to assess how green a pro-duct can be and to highlight the way forward for the product to achieve excellence in environmental performance. The GreenPro certification system is third-party based and adopts the cradle-to-cradle approach for evaluation, on par with international product certification standards.

This workshop aimed at sharing the initiatives taken as part of the Green Product Certification in India and receiving the inputs from the international community to further fine tune and make GreenPro a robust third-party based certification system. It also aimed at getting feedback to improve the first draft of the GreenPro Reference Manual for Building Products which is currently under review.

Speakers:

1. Interventions along the Value Chain – A UN Environment perspective. Bettina Heller (UN Environment) provided a brief overview of the 10 YFP Consumer Information Programme for Sustainable Consumption and Production – CI-SCP’s recently published “Guidelines for providing product sustainability information”, which target companies to enable them to test their claims against the guidelines. Based on UN experience, Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) policies can become a powerful tool when promoting the use of SCP information and eco-labels. There are promising local initiatives with open online SCP platforms (e.g. in Chile) to promote SCP consumer information.

2. Global Best Practices in Ecolabelling. Elisabeth Magnus (Nordic Swan Ecolabelling) confirmed that ecolabels are more broadly used in Europe and other industrialized countries and with less success in developing economies. She also highlighted that ecolabels can stimulate circular economies through their requirements for renewable, recycled and sustainable materials such as the building ones.

Workshop presentation by Sonia Valdivia



3. Product Certification for Cement and Concrete. Christian Artelt (Concrete Sustainability Coun-cil – CSC) provided an overview of the Product Certification for Cement and Concrete which was recently launched by the Concrete Sustainability Council and that has been recognized by Green Building Labels.

4. ISO Guidance Principles for the Sustainable Management of Secondary Metals - Traceability requirements. Sonia Valdivia (Sustainable Recycling Industries at WRF) presented the document aiming at inclusive metal recycling (ISO IWA 19:2017) with the 17 sustainability objectives and a traceability scheme, and the status of implementation in developing countries (Peru, Colombia, Ghana and South Africa). She also highlighted the gradual implementation approach especially for the informal sector and micro-recyclers.

5. GreenPro – Green Product market transformation in India. S Karthikeyan (CII) presented the GreenPro certification system, which was launched in 2015 by CII and UNIDO in a joint effort to promote more sustainable products in India by proposing requirements that exceed the regula-tion. The certification system is a life cycle based type 1 eco-labelling scheme according to ISO 14024 and is accredited by Global Ecolabelling Network – GEN. Since the launch more than 300 products have been certified. Building on that and in order to support the implementation of the scheme launched, CII and UNIDO have developed a GreenPro Reference Manual for building products which is currently undergoing the international review process led by WRF.

Discussion:A question was raised on the role of consumer associations in India and how they could grasp on international recommendations presented at the Workshop. More local experience needs to be sha-red on Indian consumer associations’ activities.

The GreenPro Reference Manual for assessing the sustainability of building materials was presented and it was explained that the manual is currently undergoing the international review process led by WRF. Based on the discussions, this document was seen as a potential useful approach for India once published, however, it would need to look into incorporating minimum social and ethical criteria more specific for the Indian context that could be objectively assessed and thus be less subjective. Regarding the 10YFP Consumer Information Programme’s “Guidelines for providing product sustain-ability information”, it was agreed that the framework and communication principles recommended can serve as valuable input when reviewing the GreePro manual. Also, it was recommended to look into the experience of the initiative on Product Certification for Cement and Concrete. Although the latter is mainly applied by local and regional certification bodies in Germany, Netherlands, Italy and Turkey, it can provide some useful learnings, especially concerning the certification aspects addres-sed in the GreePro Reference Manual as both cover building materials. Similarities were identified between the target audiences of the GreenPro Reference Manual (India) and the “Guidance Principles for the Sustainable Management of Secondary Metals (ISO IWA 19:2017)” for emerging and de-veloping economies; especially, the sustainability criteria recommended in the ISO IWA 2017:19 and stakeholder process to develop this ISO document can be used when reviewing the GreenPro Reference Manual.

More information: India Eco-Industrial Parks: Suresh Kennit Gnanaswamy (National Coordinator): [email protected] CII-Green Business Centre: S Karthikeyan, (Principal Counsellor): [email protected]


WS 8 – INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON RAW MATERIALS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION HORIZON 2020 PROGRAMME

Organizers: World Resources Forum – WRF European Geological Surveys – EGS

Chair: Bas de Leeuw (WRF)

The workshop “International Cooperation on Raw Materials in the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme” related to the Horizon 2020 funded project, FORAM, which aims to develop a platform of international experts and stakeholders that will enhance the international cooperation on raw ma-terial policies and investments: Advancing the idea of a World Forum on Raw Materials – FORAM. In the framework of the Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) of the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials and in the funding scheme of Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) , four Horizon 2020 projects covering the subjects of the International Cooperation Pillar (FORAM, MinFuture, INTRAW and STRADE), eight projects covering the Non-Technology Pillar (MICA, MIN-GUIDE, MINATURA 2020, ProSUM, SCRREEN, MSP-REFRAM, SMART GROUND, IMPACTPapeRec) and one project from the Technology Pillar (VERAM) were chosen to improve framework conditions and international cooperation in the raw materials sector from different perspectives. These projects are expected to share their experiences, increase each other’s understanding, explore synergies and together develop and advance ideas for enhanced international cooperation on all aspects of the raw materials value chain.

To initiate the collaboration between these projects, the Management Committee of the FORAM pro-ject in coordination with the European Commission, organized this workshop to provide a platform for exchanging experiences and potential synergies and introduce these projects to the global WRF audience, who are high-level policy-makers, business leaders, NGOs, scientists and the public active in different areas of resource management.


Speakers:

1. Jonas Hedberg, European Commission, Execu-tive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enter-prises – EASME

2. Mathias Schluep, World Resources Forum Asso-ciation (FORAM project)

3. Vitor Correia, European Federation of Geologist (INTRAW project)

4. Andreas Manhart, Oeko-Institut e.V. (STRADE project)

5. Daniel Beat Müller, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (MinFuture project)

6. Patrick Wall, European Technology Platform on Sustainable Mineral Resources (MICA project)


7. Blažena Hamadová, MinPol GmbH (MINATURA2020 project)8. Pascal Leroy, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Forum (ProSUM project)9. Marco de la Feld, Enco Engineering & Consulting (SMART GROUND project)

10. Antonio Dobon, Instituto Tecnológico Del Embalaje, Transporte Y Logística – ITENE (IMPACT-PapeRec project)

11. David Gardner, Knowledge Transfer Network (SCRREEN project)12. Andreas Endl, Vienna University of Economics and Business (MIN-GUIDE project)13. Patrick Wall, European Technology Platform on Sustainable Mineral Resources (VERAM project)14. Ronald Gauss, EIT Raw Materials

Discussion:One of the common goals of the Horizon 2020 projects which were presented during the workshop, is to consolidate the available data and build platforms, networks or databases in different areas related to the raw material value chain. How can they work together to increase the synergies in both areas related to stakeholder involvement, and data collection and transparency? How can they reach out to policy makers or transfer the message to the public? Over 70 participants of the workshop, covering the whole range of raw materials value chain, were actively involved into a discussion on these cross-cutting issues.

Conclusions:To involve the key stakeholders along the raw materials value chain into a dialogue it is essential to cluster them into interest groups, learn about their capacity needs and provide solutions for those needs. In order to make the case to policy makers, we should first transfer the relevant information to them, help them identify the needs of their region, state or country and then provide them with the solutions and harmonized policy recommendations. The public can be reached out by applying simple training strategies, preparing understandable guidelines and communicating project results with the media, universities and schools. “Networking” is the key strategy for involving stakeholders.Networking will be more efficient when different projects have access to combined stakeholder net-works, apply linked communication strategies and organize joint workshops/project fairs/networking events. This can be further improved, when EU institutions take the next step towards structuring a fra-mework for cooperation and coordination between the projects. It was reemphasized that exploring steps towards better cooperation and achieving synergies, for instance through building a World Forum on Raw Materials, would be recommendable.

Many of the projects are aimed at developing databases or data platforms. Interlinking the results and data platforms, will lead to a more developed tool for a robust mapping and forecasting of material cycles. Furthermore, it was recommended to work on standardized methodologies, collaborative testing, search synergies and exchanging user experiences on the platforms. The key message is to “keep the data alive after the end of the projects”.

More information: FORAM: www.foramproject.net

Partners: European Commission, Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME)

FORAM project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 730127.



WS 9 – RURAL URBAN NEXUS: GOVERNANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND USE THROUGH CITY REGION FOOD STRATEGIES

Organizers: German Federal Environment Agency – UBA Ecologic Institute

Chair: Harry Lehmann (UBA)

Resource efficient land use and sustainable urban development are both high on the international, European and regional political agenda. However, both topics are still largely discussed separately from each other and silo thinking prevails. Against the background of a rapidly increasing number of people living in cities and the implications this has on land use, an integrated perspective is now needed more than ever.

Challenges and opportunities of an integrated territorial development lie in the reduction of impacts resulting from additional land use for buildings and infrastructure, the establishment of regional re-source and nutrient cycles, provision of resources for growing cities and improvement of resilience.

A particularly powerful content area that recently receives rising attention in many regions worldwide is the development of city-region-food-systems. Food also serves as a “silo buster” to build coalitions around and to find integrated solutions and new actor coalitions for rural-urban-development. It also has the chance to contribute to various SDGs (SDG 2 on land use, 11 on sustainable cities and rural urban linkages, 12 for food waste reduction and sustainable consumption, 15 to avoid land degradation and environmental protection – to name the most relevant).

Against this background, the workshop aimed to: ▪ Provide an overview of relevant aspects of the rural-urban nexus and the need for integrated

development and the opportunities this provides for resource efficient land use ▪ Explore and discuss implications of such an integrated perspective towards local governance,

policy and research needs with the development of urban food strategies as an example ▪ Look in-depth at city region food systems and their resource saving potentials as one applied

nexus case.

Workshop discussion


Speakers:

1. Stephanie Wunder (Ecologic Institute) emphasized the fact that urban and rural regions have always been linked. However, the nature of the link between the two regions has changed. The rural urban nexus is important in that urban regions occupy 2% of the area, but produce 50% of waste and 60–80% of greenhouse emissions. Definitions and the resulting comparability of urban areas are one difficulty of the topic: What counts as a "city" in the first place? Different countries refer to different categories: in Norway, an accumulation of 200 people already counts as a city, in Portugal more than 10,000 people are considered in the definition. She also pointed out that the field of research is still relatively new. Only about three years ago, a rethinking began that the rural urban nexus needs to be viewed in a more networked way. As a policy instrument in this context, she mentioned the land certificate trade, whereby cities and municipalities are only allowed to cultivate a certain amount of new outside area. She also took up the idea from Janez Potocnik's plenary session presentation: the social aspect needs to be taken into account, because food production has a huge social impact.

2. Maruxa Cardama (Cities Alliance Secretariat) stressed the importance of mobility in rural urban nexus. Rural exodus from rural areas to cities plays an important role in the topic. Often this rural exodus does not take place voluntarily: 5 million people suffer the fate of eviction from their place of residence every year. Moreover, these processes vary greatly from country to coun-try. The SDGs and the New Urban Agenda from HABITAT III are a paradigm shift for human development. Following a review of the main issues on these agendas, she talked about their local implementation. The goal must now be to translate these goals and value-based visions into concrete measures for a positive impact on local communities around the world. Without the empowerment of local and regional governments and the ownership of citizens, these global agendas would not bring about any real positive change for people and the planet. Meeting challenges such as poverty, inequality and prosperity, climate change, resilience and environ-mental protection, as well as democratic civic engagement requires an urban and territorial approach. The speaker concluded with some challenges that await us. These can be divided into three major areas: intellectuals, academic and professional challenges; legal & political challenges and supportive environments; and citizen participation.

Workshop discussion

3. Heidrun Moschitz (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture – FiBL) presented some case studies and practical experiences in Switzerland and Germany. In Freiburg im Breisgau, she has carried out a project to determine the proportion of locally produced food consumed in the city. Again, the defini-tions mentioned by Stephanie Wunder are a challenge: How to define locally? Is a certain radius taken as a measurement? And: Are areas within this radius but no longer in Germany still "local"? Another difficulty of this evolution is that there is data for this one city only and therefore, a comparative approach is not possible.


Finally, Dr. Moschitz took up another example of the networking of rural and urban areas: Munich's water supply. The city subsidizes organic farmers in the immediate vicinity, as it is ultimately more favourable for the water quality in the city of Munich than if the water has to be treated due to the presence of pesticides.

Discussion:Following the presentations, the speakers initiated a discussion with participants. They were parti-cularly interested in the country-specific differences of the issue. The situations in countries such as Mexico, Latvia and Honduras were debated in particular. A participant from Honduras, for example, confirmed the difficulty of defining urban vs. rural areas, which he had also encountered in his research.

The discussion then went even deeper into the topic of silo thinking, which has already been menti-oned in the input papers. The silos in the various policy areas are still a serious problem, because this is the reason why the desired change fails. Dr. Moschitz mentioned the fact that there is no holistic Urban Food Policy in Switzerland, but that this topic is part of various policy areas. The discussion addressed the social aspects of the topic presented by Stephanie Wunder through a further input. Urban Gardening was originally launched as a social project, a project for the integration of refu-gees, which once again emphasizes the social component of the theme.

As a final point, it was generally stated that silo thinking is also a danger for the entire circular eco-nomy.

More information: UBA: www.umweltbundesamt.de/ Ecologic Institute: www.ecologic.eu/ Cities Alliance: www.citiesalliance.org/ FiBL: www.fibl.org/de/


WS 10 – ODS BANKS MANAGEMENT: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLECTION, RECYCLING AND DESTRUCTION OF ODS AND E-WASTE CONTAINING ODSOrganizer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – GIZ GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety – BMUB

Chair: Cinthya Berrío (GIZ)

Moderator: María Carolina Vélez (GIZ)

The use of ozone depleting substances (ODS) as refrigerants and foam blowing agents in the past has led to the accumulation of large amounts of ODS. The respective emissions of ODS and their substitutes such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) contribute not only to ozone layer depletion but also to climate change. Goal of the workshop was to address challenges and opportunities for collection, recycling and destruction of ODS and e-waste containing ODS together with experts and represen-tatives of partner countries. Furthermore, the workshop addressed the key processes for a successful management of these substances and the equipment containing them, as well as the opportunities that arise from their proper management.

Spekers:

1. Nidia Pabón (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia)2. Michael Onwona-Kwakye (Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana)3. Jonathan Heubes (HEAT GmbH)4. Cinthya Berrío (GIZ - Proklima)

Discussion:The workshop was attended by representatives of organizations and professionals with extensive knowledge on the subject, which allowed a high-level discussion, in particular with regard to the technological solutions for the destruction of the gases, the integration of the informal sector and sustainable financing mechanisms. The advantages and disadvantages of different destruction tech-nologies were discussed, as well as pilots from other multilateral organizations.

Workshop presentation by Jonathan Heubes



Main conclusions: ▪ Legislation and enforcement are key success factors for the proper management of WEEE con-

taining ozone depleting substances and other fluorinated gases with high global warming po-tential. Comprehensive national legislation is ineffective in the absence of strong enforcement.

▪ Destruction technology should only be installed when sufficient ODS amounts for management are available, which requires a regulatory framework, a collection and recycling infrastructure, as well as a sustainable financing mechanism. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) appears to be the most promising sustainable financing option for WEEE from the refrigeration and air conditioning sector (RAC) and increasing the collection and recycling rate. Moreover, the establishment of sustainable ODS banks management strategies is more important than one time international support.

▪ At the global level, solutions for the proper management of harmful substances such as ODS and HFC, as well as the equipment containing them are needed, where producers of equip-ment and refrigerants should take over responsibility, contributing to a solution. The circular economy and a life cycle approach need to be taken into account, starting at the production of the equipment.

More information: GIZ Proklima: Franziska Frölich, [email protected] Müller, [email protected] Cinthya Berrio, [email protected] www.giz.de/proklima

Partners: Nidia Pabón TelloTechnical Consultant at the Technical Ozone UnitMinisterio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible - Colombiawww.minambiente.gov.co

Michael Onwona Kwakye Principal Programme Officer at the National Ozone UnitEnvironmental Protection Agency - Ghanawww.epa.gov.gh/epa/

Keep in touch with GIZ and BMUB: ▪ Twitter: https://twitter.com/gcigreencooling?lang=de ▪ Short awareness movie: "ODS banks – an unforeseen threat" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ-

H34n9W7tM&feature=youtu.be ▪ Green Cooling Initiative website: www.green-cooling-initiative.org/


WS 11 – CREATING CREDIBLE METRICS FOR THE IMPACTS OF CIRCULAR BUSINESS MODELS

Organizers: World Resources Institute – WRI World Business Council for Sustainable Development – WBCSD

Chair: Eliot Metzger (WRI)

Spekers:

1. Andrea Brown (World Business Council for Sustainable Development – WBCSD)2. Deborah Drew (World Resources Institute – WRI)3. Brendan Edgerton (World Business Council for Sustainable Development – WBCSD)4. Eliot Metzger (World Resources Institute – WRI)5. Kate Meyer (Ecometrics)

The circular economy holds immense potential for achieving valuable resource productivity breakthroughs. Estimates put the value of investing in circular in the hundreds of billions of Euros in regions like Europe - and as high as USD1 trillion globally. But we aim to look beyond the economics and realize the full environmental and social benefits of going circular as well.

Our work focuses on measuring the impacts of emerging circular business models to know whether they are indeed proving to be a useful means of reversing resource overconsumption trends. Com-mon, credible metrics are needed to “do the math” and mark progress toward priorities like Key Performance Indicators, Sustainable Development Goals, and Science Based Targets.

Main conclusions: ▪ Pay attention to past failures:

If we are to successfully decouple economic growth from resource use through various channels including circular economy and adhering to planetary accounting methods, we must change our approach. We will waste time if we repeat efforts that have not worked in the past. Participants advocated to avoid the temptation to create the “perfect metrics” and instead focus on a few, simple and fundamental shifts that are urgently needed (e.g. climate change and poverty).



There was agreement that we can acknowledge and learn from past failures. Issues like the rebound effect, for example, can overwhelm gains made in product efficiency as consumers use their ecological savings on other aspects, like travel. It is imperative that the roles of government, policy and investment decision makers are not overlooked in moving towards a circular economy and put in place strategies for addressing the failures of the past.

▪ Human-Centric Indicators:How we communicate with the consumer is important in closing the loop and advancing strong circular economy business models. Synthesizing complex ideas into simple ones (“as simple as a swipe on a phone”) will help ease consumers into new business models where their role is expanded beyond the use phase. Removing barriers to responsible consumption and production is a first step.Prioritizing young consumers for this outreach will be key. Millennials are choosing experien-ces over stuff more and more and companies who move to a service based or apply a circular business model over the linear one of the past will be better poised to meet this new demand.Keeping humans at the centre of our metrics will help allow flexibility. Approaches will vary depending on the country and level of economic development. These differences should be understood and incorporated to any efforts to establish appropriate metrics. Informal econo-mies tend to be more circular out of necessity, so how can we empower those fast-growing economies? How might circular models increase quality of life? How can we encourage transformation of economies in developed high consuming countries to become more circular and decouple resource use from financial success?Participants highlighted the need to engage key people. Certain actors, including consumers and investors, hold a lot of influence in shaping business strategies. To the extent possible, metrics and quotas should be able to speak directly to what those actors care about and help inform their decision-making process. Extensive trialling of accounting systems and scope definitions to make cross sector comparisons will be necessary for different business models.

▪ Extend Relevancy: The issue of technology came into the discussion as both a concern and an opportunity. Re-ducing planned obsolescence is a start at reducing consumption. However, technology moves so quickly that it often accelerates a product’s obsolescence or results in a situation where inefficient products remain in circulation when much better alternatives exist. Participants high-lighted the need to incorporate “relevance” into metrics dealing with circular business models. Meanwhile, technology can also provide avenues to reach new consumers and share infor-mation wider regarding sustainable products. For example, phone apps that filter for green versions of the products may be a simple way for businesses and consumers alike to prioritize, in a user-friendly way, sustainable consumption.

More information: WRI: Eliot Metzger ([email protected]) Deborah Drew ([email protected]) Ecometrics: [email protected]: Andrea Brown ([email protected]) Brendan Edgerton ([email protected])


WS 12 – MARKET SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT & ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Organizer: Swisscontact

Chair: Martin Dietschi (Swisscontact)

Swisscontact is a business-oriented NGO basing its work on the concepts of Market Systems De-velopment (MSD) and Inclusive Markets (IM). The focus of this market-based approach is on the wider “market system” as opposed to looking only at core functions of the market (supply – demand). By comprehensively analysing the system, including the supporting functions (information flows, in-frastructure, skills & technologies, etc.) and rules (regulations, laws, standards, informal rules, etc.), underlying causes for market failure for the poor are identified. The Inclusive Markets approach aims at facilitating a systemic change in the market system thus ensuring access to input and output markets for the poor in a long-term sustainable way. Swisscontact has been designing and implementing vari-ous programs with a systemic approach for over 15 years, in order to ensure long-term sustainability of projects and reach large scale.

The Workshop’s goal was to show how energy & resource efficiency, GHG mitigation, municipal solid waste management (SWM), waste regula-tions, and recycling schemes can be holistically addressed by applying the Inclusive Markets approach. Making use of market forces is often not the starting point for environmental or climate change projects, but it can contribute strongly to bringing about quantifiable and sustainable im-pacts.

Swisscontact wanted to share its experience on how improved production processes, recycling and re-use, as well as increased awareness for the environment can create more and better em-ployment and income for SMEs while mitigating climate change. Projects where the market sys-tems approach was included from the outset in the project design were also presented.

Workshop presentation

Spekers:

1. Martin Dietschi (Country Director Albania, Swisscontact)2. Kolja Leiser (Programme Officer South America, Swisscontact)3. Sébastien Haye (Managing Consultant, E4tech)


After a short introduction to the concept of Inclusive Markets, Swisscontact and E4tech presented three cases of systemic & market-oriented environmental management:1. SME promotion through cost-efficient brick production2. Creating eco-systems for residential waste value chains 3. Market access for marginalized producers through standardization and certification schemes

Martin Dietschi presented the example of energy efficient brick production in South America (EELA). In this project, small-scale brick producers received technical assistance to introduce more efficient production processes and improved products. The project achieved an environmental impact in terms of 51 kilotons of CO2eq reduced and an economic impact in terms of producers’ incomes increased by USD1.4 million (in Bolivia). The key for these results was to align economic benefits for small pro-ducers with positive environmental outcomes. Achieving and reliably measuring this was included in the project design from the outset. Several factors that can hamper this better functioning of the market were also identified, like regulatory intervention, access to technology and financing.

Secondly, Kolja Leiser presented the project “EcoVecindarios” in Bolivia. This is a solid waste ma-nagement and recycling project promoting waste separation and green businesses. Ecovecindarios was the first environment project globally to be audited according to the DCED Standard (Donor Committee for Enterprise Development5). The project’s activities were modelled around a holistic view of the waste value chain and involved: awareness raising; technical support to improve regulatory frameworks and public waste management; private sector development around waste collection and recycling; and developing concrete value chains in waste categories like plastics, compost, e-waste, etc. As one of many smaller and bigger successes, the newly established platform at the Chamber of Commerce in Cochabamba can be counted, which links supply and demand for recyclables as a service to local businesses. The project achieved about 45 kilotons of CO2 emission reductions, and triggered the creation of more than 200 jobs. The project strengthened 28 green businesses and helped to generate USD2.3 million in sales of recyclable waste, including waste management services. The systemic impact, in terms of scale and sustainability was registered in many cases: 170’000 residents started to separate waste at source for more than one year. The ten municipali-ties assumed ownership and independently invested USD11 million in equipment and infrastructure. Good practices spread autonomously and were taken up by other municipalities even beyond the ones supported by the project. Yet, some challenges remain to be solved. For instance, downstream demand for complex waste (e-waste, batteries, etc.) is yet to be created, often it has to be exported overseas. Moreover, technical issues remain and dismantling is costly. In general, hazardous waste can often only be collected and stored, but not disposed or recycled as the large-scale facilities are lacking to melt, for example, batteries in a correct way.

Swisscontact's Systemic ApproachWorkshop presentation by Martin Dietschi


The last presentation addressed impact of standards and certification on sustainability, with Sébastien Haye as presenter. Sustainability standards, certification systems and labels are widespread in our daily consumption. The “Better Cotton Initiative” (BCI) ensures that cotton production and processing abides by sustainability rules (e.g. minimal use of chemicals, reduced water consumption, fair wor-king conditions, nature conservation) and fiber quality. As a result, hundreds of thousands of small producers are provided with better incomes through enhanced market access. The presentation also explained why traceability of compliant products, assurance (i.e. how compliance is being verified), standards governance (following ISEAL Codes) and monitoring & evaluation are important to distingu-ish between impactful standards/certifications and mere greenwashing. For example, in 2016, 1.6 million farmers were licensed by BCI, which represents 3.5 million hectares sustainably cultivated and 2.5 million tons of better cotton in the market (12% global production). Between 2011 and 2014, Bonsucro certification (sugar) led saving 364 million L water. Market drivers are important. In the case of BCI, the biggest retailers (incl. H&M, Levi’s, GAP, etc.) committed to source an increasing amount of better cotton, in response to customers’ will to wear sustainable clothes. The premium paid on better cotton is reported on the purchase price for cotton producers.

Discussion:There were about 25 participants, among them representatives mainly from public authorities in the Netherlands, India and Switzerland, from environmental consulting firms and academia.

Participants were asked to present other examples of market-based environmental projects. During the lively discussion, participants shared experiences from other waste management projects and specific challenges were discussed. It turned out that market-based approaches can be hampered for example by persistent informality or cross-border regulations. Finally, we reconfirmed that it needs creativity and innovation, as well as locally adapted approaches to harness market mechanisms in developing countries for environmental goals.

Main conclusions: ▪ Achieving economic AND environmental benefits works! ▪ Change requires innovation and the right regulatory framework. ▪ There are trade-offs, you can’t win everywhere. You need mitigation plans to deal with nega-

tive impacts (social, economic, environmental).

More information: Swisscontact: www.swisscontact.org

Partners: www.e4tech.com

5Find more information here: www.enterprise-development.org


WS 13 – RESOURCE EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF RA-RE-EARTH MAGNETS – THE EU PROJECT REPROMAG

Organizers: OBE Ohnmacht & Baumgärtner GmbH & Co. KG Steinbeis 2i GmbH on behalf of all REProMag consortium partners

Chair: Carlo Burkhardt (OBE Ohnmacht & Baumgärtner GmbH & Co. KG)

Whether in electrical motors of cars, sensors of elevators, actuators of medical equipment, grippers and fixations of machines, speakers of cell phones or hard drives of computers: Rare-earth (RE) mag-nets are increasingly present in our lives and play a key role in a wide range of industries. They are the strongest type of magnets to date and as such, high in demand. Yet, RE materials are both difficult to find and to extract in large quantities, which makes them expensive and their prices volatile. In such context of a critical raw material market, which is indeed dominated by Asia (only 3% produced in EU), there is a strong need to develop new processes for efficient (re-) use and production of RE magnets.

Here is precisely where REProMag comes into play. In this European funded project (Horizon 2020 – GA Nº636881) a team of 14 European research and industrial partners developed an innovative resource efficient and sustainable manufacturing route for RE magnets called SDS (Shaping, Debin-ding, Sintering). The REProMag approach is an integrated solution overcoming today’s limitations in the production and use of RE-magnets: it’s based on the use of 100% recycled RE-metals and allows customised and economically efficient production of RE-magnets with complex and miniaturised geo-metries through Metal Injection Moulding and 3D-printing.

During the workshop participants could learn more about the project and its approach but also to see all the achievements reached by the consortium partners in the last 3 years. Magnetic demonstrators, 3D-printed parts, assemblies using NdFeB magnets (headphones, microphones, electric motors) and a 3D printer machine were presented in the showcase, as were electronic waste parts (WEEE) as a source for magnet recycling (computer hard disks). The problem of resource efficiency for magnet production was raised within an interesting panel discussion with field experts.

Workshop presentation by Carlo Burkhardt

Showcasing REProMag project applications


Speakers:

Info Session1. Carlo Burkhardt (OBE Ohnmacht & Baumgärtner GmbH & Co. KG)2. Michael Krispin (SIEMENS AG)3. Vicky Mann (University of Birmingham, Magnetic Materials Group, Metallurgy & Materials)4. Gerald Mitteramskogler (Lithoz GmbH)5. Joamin Gonzalez-Gutierrez (Montanuniversität Leoben, Department Polymer Engineering and

Science)

Panel Discussion1. Leonard Ansorge (RockLink GmbH)2. Stefan Möwius (BEC Gesellschaft für Produktmanagement mbH)3. Harald Sander-Röttcher (Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG)4. Farouk Tedjar (Recupyl SAS / Grenoble INP LEPMI)5. Marcel Weil (ITAS Institute for Technology Assessment and System Analysis, KIT Karlsruhe Institute

of Technology)

Discussion:During the panel discussion, aspects of magnet recycling were looked at from all perspectives of the material stream (i.e. from the view of a magnets producer, a manufacturer of components using magnets, a recycling company, as well as the end user). Additionally, aspects considering political boundary conditions, raw material supply and the ecological footprints were addressed.

Main conclusions:All stakeholders see a clear need for increasing the recycling rates of permanent magnets from cur-rently <1% to the level of other technology metals like silver, palladium and platinum, where recycling rates of 30% are realised today. This is necessary to ensure a stable and secure raw materials supply for green energy, mobility and further applications and to reduce the overall ecological footprint of permanent magnet production. As the technological solutions are now available on the lab scale, it is very important to make the next steps on the way to a real circular economy by introducing magnetic labelling and classification concepts as well as upscaling the recycling technologies for larger future quantities.

More information: REProMag: www.repromag-project.eu

Partners: REProMag Consortium represented by OBE Ohnmacht & Baum-gärtner GmbH & Co. KG; FOTEC Forschungs- und Technolo-gietransfer GmbH; PT+A GmbH, HAGE Sondermaschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG; Lithoz GmbH; TEKS SARL LIMITED; SIEMENS AG; Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG; Technische Uni-versität Wien; The University of Birmingham; Montanuniversität Leoben; Jožef Stefan Institute, National Physical Laboratory – NPL; Steinbeis 2i GmbH.

REProMag has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation pro-gramme under Grant Agreement No. 636881. The project is coordinated by OBE Ohnmacht & Baumgärt-ner GmbH & Co. KG and was running since 01/01/2015 until 31/12/2017.


WS 14 – OPEN ACCESS DATA AND MODELLING TOOLS FOR 21ST CENTURY ENERGY CHALLENGES – POWER WATCH, ONSSET AND OSEMOSYS

Organizer: World Resources Institute – WRI

Chairs: Johannes Friedrich (WRI)

Electricity is a key driver of the global economy, helping people to escape poverty and countries to improve their standards of living. At the same time, the current choice of electricity generation techno-logies drives climate change, jeopardizes water resources and releases air pollutants that are harmful to human health. Transitioning to sustainable energy sources while increasing electricity access for the 1 billion people across the globe who still lack access will be one of the defining challenges of the 21st century.

Despite the recognized importance of electricity access, there is a lack of consistently available data and tools to help decision makers address these 21st century energy challenges. This workshop fo-cused on open access data and modelling efforts undertaken by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm to provide decision makers with reliable data and planning tools to make informed actions that can reduce environmental impact while extending electricity access. The projects highlighted were WRI’s Power Watch platform, and KTH’s OSeMO-SYS & OnSSET planning tools.

Power Watch is a comprehensive, open source database of the world’s power plants aiming to increase transparency in the global power sector by mapping out power plants and their impacts on climate, water resources, and air pollution.

OSeMOSYS is an open source energy modelling system that focuses on bulk power supply and trade, both in developed and developing countries, and can be extended to consider the entire energy system and relevant energy services. OnSSET is a power planning toolkit which geospatially compares the costs and resource availability for on and off grid solutions as a means for expanding electricity access in different parts of the world.

Goals of the workshop: ▪ Outreach: introduce people to Power

Watch, identify new partners or data sources and test use cases and tool con-cepts for Power Watch.

▪ Highlight the importance of open tools for energy planning, introduce people to OSeMOSYS & OnSSET and further explore possible synergies among open access databases and tools.



Speakers:

1. Johannes Friedrich (WRI)2. Aaron Kressig (WRI)3. Francesco Fuso Nerini (KTH)4. Constantinos Taliotis (KTH)

Discussion:Standardizing and using open power sector data – exchanging experiences:

▪ What are best practices for standardizing data from different sources? ▪ What is the data demand for power plant data and what indicators are needed? ▪ How can open power plant data be used to address issues of climate, water, air and human

development? ▪ What organizations could use it and what are key partnerships?

The future of open access energy models: ▪ What role should open models have in supporting the ongoing energy transition in the power

sector? Are there open models that are especially needed in the power sector and may not yet be available?

▪ How can open data and open models best reach out to the groups that will most benefit from them (education, dissemination, use)? What processes can help, and which stakeholders are best suited to achieve this?

Main conclusions: ▪ Key to making open access data and models effective is involving several stakeholders to

exert pressure on policy makers and investors. ▪ The demand for open data drives mutually beneficial collaboration amongst the data and

modelling research community. ▪ There are specific challenges around raising resources to maintain open data projects but

there are clear overall benefits for society.

More information: Power Watch: www.globalpowerwatch.orgOSeMOSYS: www.osemosys.org/

Partners: Royal Institute of Technology – KTHGoogle (Power Watch’s Founding Partner)


WS 15 – LIMESTONE CALCINED CLAY CEMENT (LC3) – POTENTIAL FOR RESOURCE EFFICIENCY IN CONSTRUCTION SECTOR

Organizers: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL Development Alternatives Group – DA

Chairs: Arun Kumar (DA) and Soumen Maity (DA)

Industrialisation brought comfort to our lives, but at the expense of environmental resources. Globally, concrete is the most manufactured material by volume. The quantity of cement – the binding element of concrete – produced has increased dramatically because of the growing world population, economic development and rapid urbanisation. The projected volume of cement production by 2050 is about 6 billion tons. In 2014 alone 4.2 billion tons of cement was produced globally.

On the one hand, cement is a resource intensive material. A ton of conventional cement production re-quires 1.4 tons of limestone. The sheer quantity of cement demand in the future would put measurable and rapid impact on limestone resources around the world. On the other hand, cement is accounted for 2.7 Gt of CO2 emissions, approximately 7% of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions world-wide, making cement the second largest carbon dioxide (CO2) contributor in industry after power plants. Emissions from cement production are mainly caused by the loss of chemical CO2 during the raw materials 'clinkerisation', and the transport.

Therefore, alternatives are urgently required and an alternative that tackles these two problems has been designed. LC3 is an innovative cement that both reduces CO2 emissions and the use of limited natural resources by lowering cement’s clinker content. This can be achieved by substituting clinker with alternative waste materials, which up to now have typically been industrial by-products, such as fly ash from coal fired power stations and blast furnace slag. Overall, LC3 offers a solution that reduces the clinker content down to 50% using industrial waste material while at the same time saving 30% of CO2 emissions. Moreover, the material requires low investment and is easily applicable. These combined advantages give it the potential of becoming a revolutionary product that is an ans-wer to several concerns in the field of environmental protection and resource efficiency.

The goals of the workshop were to bring together various stakeholders (i.e. research, industry and go-vernment) on the same platform and have comprehensive discussion on contributions of LC3 towards resource efficiency in cement industry and mitigation of climate change. The workshop also was structured to explore the outlook and levels of acceptance of a new kind of blended cement (i.e. LC3).

Panel discussion


Discussion:Keeping the aims and objectives of WRF 2017, the LC3 workshop presented transformative inno-vations and circular approaches on how material resources can be used to reduce environmental impact. The workshop presentations also demonstrated the potential contribution of LC3 towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals 9, 11, 12 and providing additional support to 13, re-ducing CO2 emissions and saving natural resources.

The discussions started, raising concerns on the availability of raw materials for LC3. However, it was explained that the required supplies are available in commercial quantities in Latin America, Africa and Asia where the projected growth will be the highest in the coming decades. Subsequently, the discussion focused on timely implementation and challenges in scaling at a cement industry scale. Strategies on engaging with industry and required policy incentives were brought out as the current key barriers.

Main conclusions:The LC3 technology is on a very sound footing based on the calcined clay-limestone combination. Apart from looking at availability of resources, the project team needs to look more at access to resources in order to commercialize the technology.

An effective strategy needs to be built up for disseminating knowledge of LC3 to all the stakeholders thereby increasing the reach and visibility.

Putting a price on carbon emissions in existing cement production (in the form of carbon-tax) would create an incentive for cement industries to move to more resource efficient and environmentally friendly cement production (e.g. the LC3).

Speakers:

1. Vanderley M. John (Associate Prof. Dept. of Construction Engineering, Escola Politecnica, University of São Paulo, Brazil)

2. Urs Heierli (Director, msd consulting GmbH, Switzerland)3. Anjan Kumar Chatterjee (Chairman, Conmat Technologies Private Ltd., India)4. Christian Artelt (Senior Manager, Sustainable Construction, Heidelberg Cement AG, Germany)5. Arun Kumar (Chair and President, Development Alternatives, India)

More information: LC3: www.lc3.ch

Partners: The project team consists of:Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation – SDC; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL; Technology and Action for Rural Advancement, New Delhi – TARA; Indian Ins-titute of Technology Delhi – IIT Delhi; Indian Institute of Techno-logy Madras – IIT Madras; Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de Estructuras y Materiales Cuba – CIDEM


WS 16 – HOW TO TRANSITION FROM LINEAR TO CICULAR

Organizer: R2Pi Project

Chair: Raymond Slaughter (Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production)

The shift towards a circular economy has undisputed benefits for the world and its citizens. It is a clear opportunity for organizations who can successfully transition their models – or develop new and disruptive ones – which effectively create, deliver, and capture value in a manner that is decoupled from resource use and depletion. Yet, how do you embed circular economy in ways that are scalable, self-sustaining and create value for your organization, partners, customers and wider stakeholders?

How can you as an individual become an effective ‘change-maker’ and even an ‘improvement-ma-ker’?

These questions are relevant whether you are a business directly facing these challenges, a policy maker trying to effect system-level improvements, or a civil society organization that is informing and influencing others.

The workshop goals were to provide a discussion forum on barriers and enablers to transition, as well as introduce a powerful tool for building relationships and value exchanges. This approach can be used to facilitate dialogues with colleagues, partners, and customers, and help participants to develop practical actions to accelerate their transitions immediately – to effectively create, deliver and capture value in a manner that is decoupled from resource use and depletion.



Conducted by the R2π Project:R2π is a European Union project focused on enabling organizations and their value chains to tran-sition towards a more viable, sustainable and competitive economic model. The project is all about How to Transition from Linear to Circular Economy, and thus, the R represents the linear radius while the π symbolises the circle.

R2π supports the achievement of the European Union’s strategy on sustainability and competitiveness by positioning the EU as a world leader in the circular economy. The objective of the project is to accelerate widespread implementation of a circular economy based on sustainable business models and effective policies: to ensure sustained economic development, to minimize environmental impact and to maximize social welfare.

Speakers:

1. Aleyn Smith-Gillespie (Carbon Trust)2. Doug Morwood (Whole Earth Futures)3. Raymond Slaughter (Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production – CSCP)

Main conclusions: ▪ Understand your stakeholders’ barriers and enablers ▪ Create value for your stakeholders (in a more sustainable and circular way) ▪ Take bold action now!

Selected quotes from the discussion:“Collaboration is key! No company or even policy maker will be able to upgrade the economic system alone”“A key barrier is the fact that taxes on labour are far higher than taxes on materials”“A major enabler will be to bring a company together with their entire value chain and help them all to develop the circular solution together”“The Value Proposition canvas has helped me understand my customer’s viewpoint better”“Circular business models are not that new, but the required mindset is new and different”

More information: R2Pi Project: www.r2piproject.eu https://twitter.com/R2PI_project

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation pro-gramme under grant agreement No. 730378.


This year, three key topics were selected for the scientific sessions:

▪ Policies and Governance – highlighting ideas and existing concepts relevant for policy makers and for the improvement of resource governance

▪ Technology and Innovation – exploring technological and innovative options, as well as the opportunities and the challenges of implementing them

▪ Lifestyles and Education – presenting how the main topics of the conference are linked to society and education

Over 220 abstracts from 39 countries were submitted this year to the WRF, 157 of which were finally accepted by the Scientific Committee for oral presentation and 39 for poster presentation during one of the scientific sessions and poster sessions organized in Geneva. Scientific presentations were clustered in 11 sessions with dedicated themes. These gave place to highly interesting and inspiring speeches and very stimulating lively discussions with the public.

Four scientific presentations have been particularly appreciated and were prized by the Scientific Session Chairs – Prof. Christian Ludwig (Paul Scherrer Institut – PSI and EPFL, Chair Scientific Commit-tee) and Prof. Sonia Valdivia (WRF, Co-Chair Scientific Committee) – with the support of the public. These were:

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▪ Raw Material Flow in Informal Sectors in India, presented by Lakshmi Raghupathy (TERI University, India) in the "Resource Efficiency for a Circular Economy" cluster

▪ The Global Urban Metabolism Data-base, presented by Joao Meirelles (EPFL, Switzerland) in the "Sustainable Construc-tion and Smart Cities" cluster

▪ Life Cycle Thinking for Energy and Urban Sustainability Assessment Profi-les in Guatemala, presented by Edgar Eduardo Sacayón (Instituto de Investi-gación y Proyección en Ciencia y Tec-nología, Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala) in the "Renewable and Eco-Efficient Energy" cluster

▪ ICT for SDG2 – Reincarnating Proces-ses for a Healthier World, presented by Harini Swaminathan (Centre for Tech-nology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India; and IITB-Monash Research Academy, Mumbai, India) in the "Policies and Governance" poster ses-sion

Scientific Session Awards

Scientific Sessions Awards


These and other WRF 2017 presentations can be consulted on the World Resources Forum website. In addition, a selection of manuscripts will be published in the course of 2018.

This year, the format of the scientific sessions was adapted according to recommendations by par-ticipants from previous WRF editions. The new format consists mainly in allocating more time for feedback and direct discussion, which was overall well received by the audience.

The Scientific Committee in charge of the review of abstracts submission, headed by Prof. Ludwig and Prof. Valdivia, consisted of several experts from all around the world. We would like to thank them all once again for their continuous engagement and great work!

IMPRESSIONS – SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS


5 MORE HIGHLIGHTS

PRESIDENTS MEETING

In the last couple of years, the number of in-ternational organizations devoted to creating spaces to discuss resources management and sustainability solutions has increased significantly, as well as the number of events addressing these crucial issues. In spite of the differences in target audiences, focus topics and regions, these orga-nizations share the common goal of supporting the transition towards sustainable development. Fostering collaboration between them is a key step forward.

Presidents of such organizations got together during the WRF 2017 to discuss synergies and coor-dinate future activities. The network created and the exchange of information will allow a better co-verage of topics, stakeholders and region-specific issues. Organizations based in Austria, Germany, France, Australia, Finland, India and Switzerland were part of this first gathering.

IRP 10TH YEAR ANNIVERSAY

The International Resource Panel (IRP) was laun-ched by UN Environment in 2007 with the goal of creating and sharing knowledge needed for the improvement of global resources management. The Panel consists of 35 eminent international scientists who provide the latest scientific, technical and so-cio-economic findings on the use of resources, as well as advice and connections between different stakeholder groups on ways to implement solutions.

The IRP is a long-standing partner of the World Resources Forum Association. Its valuable work in the field of resources management has been part of the WRF conferences since its very first editions. IRP’s ten years of continuous engagement and contributions to sustainable development were celebrated at the WRF 2017, with some insights into current activities of the panel and coming publications.

WRF 2017 CINEMA

Films, documentaries and short videos related to resource efficiency and the SDGs were displayed during this year’s WRF Cinema with the aim of emphasising crucial issues and show casing exiting success stories to inspire and encourage participants to pursue their own initiatives.

A total of 9 films and short videos were screened during the conference. Attendance to the sessions was up to 30 participants. The following screenings were part of the session:

Before the Flood (by Fisher Stevens), Network Earth (by Mauro Martino and Jianxi Gao), Selah: From Water from Stone (by Ben Masters), Learning to Protect Biodiversity (by UNESCO), Welcome to my Village (by ES VICIS Foundation), Tales of Trash (by Sustainable Recycling Industries), The Valuable Waste (by Adesoji Adeyemi-Adejolu), The Story of Microfibers (by The Story of Stuff), How We Will Rid the Oceans of Plastic (by the Ocean Cleanup).

SUSTAINABLE RECYCLING INDUSTRIES (SRI) A FRAMEWORK FOR INCLUSIVE RECYCLING

The Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) program was launched in 2012, with the goal of building capacity to foster sustainable and inclusive recycling of secondary resources in developing countries. Very rapidly after its creation, six countries – Colombia, Peru, India, Ghana, Egypt and South Africa – joined the initiative. Activities cover data development for the assessment of environmental and social life cycle performance for industrial activities; improvement of local capacity together with private and public institutions; and facilitation of stakeholder consultation processes for the development of sustainability criteria for secondary materials.

Some relevant results of this initiative are the development of the ISO document IWA 19:2017 Gui-dance Principles for the sustainable management of secondary metals and the leverage of the Colombian long-term strategy for sustainable e-waste management.

Those and other key achievements of the SRI program in partner countries were presented on the side-lines of the WRF 2017, where stakeholders ratified the need to continue tackling e-waste worldwide.



Very good satisfaction with WRF 2017, results of participant survey show

For the seventh consecutive year, the WRF carried out a survey after the conference. 84 people of the about 450 participants replied (response rate: 18.7%). Results show that the event met (or exceeded) the expectations of a big majority of respondents (over 83%). For 40% of the respondents the event was above or significantly above their expectations. Networking was an important reason for atten-ding the conference (75%), followed by the workshops and discussion groups (54%) and scientific sessions (48%). Survey participants were heterogeneous, with 45% coming from the scientific sector, 18% from the business sector, 12% from the civil society, 10% from governments and the remaining 15% from other sectors (including other international organizations). Even if responses are very posi-tive; they show that there is still room for improvement. This is true in particular in relation to the number of parallel sessions (perceived as too many), catering and orientation at the venue. As usual, all the comments received will be considered by the organizing committee to further improvement of the WRF events. We will be pleased to get your feedback at any point in time. Please check our WRF website or send us an email at [email protected].

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(Answered question: 83)How did the event meet your expectations?


(Answered question: 82)Please indicate your overall impression with this conference

Weighted average

(Answered question: 76)

Which stakeholder group would you like to see more represented in future WRF conferences?


APPENDICES

TUESDAY 24

8.00 – 9.00 Registration

9.00 – 10.30 Setting the Scene & Special Keynote (room 2) ▪ Opening with Valentin Zellweger (Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations Offi ce and to the other international organisations in Geneva) and Xaver Edelmann (President, WRF)

▪ Introducing the WRF 2017 with Bas de Leeuw (Managing Director, WRF) ▪ Resource Revolution – Shaping the Future with Cornis van der Lugt (Senior Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University) ▪ Value of Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue – Business & Societies with Giulia Carbone (Deputy Director Global Business and Biodiversity Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature – IUCN)

▪ Special Keynote with Jørgen Randers (Professor Emeritus, Climate strategy, BI Norwegian Business School)Chair: Bas de Leeuw (Managing Director, WRF)

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 – 13.00

13.00 – 14.15 Lunch

14.15 – 16.15 Cooperation for Resource Effi ciency and Decoupling (room 2) ▪ Andrey Vasilyev (Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe – UNECE) ▪ Bernard Mathieu (Head Sustainable Development, LafargeHolcim) ▪ John Atherton (Director of Health, Safety & Product Stewardship, International Council on Mining and Metals – ICMM) ▪ Marc Chardonnens (Director, Swiss Federal Offi ce for the Environment – FOEN) ▪ Victoire de Margerie (Vice President, World Materials Forum)Chair: Anders Wijkman (Co-President, Club of Rome)


16.30 – 18.30

18.30 – 19.30 Aperitif – Celebrating the UN Environment International Resource Panel (IRP) 10th Anniversary (CICG exhibition area)

19.30 – 21.30 Gala Dinner (CICG restaurant area)

The e-waste Challenge

WS 1 room 3

Sustainable Sourcing of

Construction Materials

WS 2 room 4

Risk&Race: The game of Entrepreneur-

ship in a Circular Economy

WS 3 room 23

Strategic Raw Materials and Sustainable

Development

WS 4 room 5

Measuring & Showcasing

Resource Effi ciency

SS 1 room 15


WS 1 room 3

Digital for Sustainability

In Need of a Disruptive Research

Agenda

WS 5 room 4

MEDEAS Project Resources, Climate Change, and the future of Europe

WS 6 room 6


Development

WS 4 room 5

Green Product Certifi cation in

India

WS 7 room 23

WRF Cinema

room 17

Society & Sustainable

Consumption

SS 2 room 13

Renewable & Eco-effi cient

Energy

SS 3 room 18

A: Sustainable Construction &

Smart-CitiesB: Water-Food

Nexus

SS 4 room 15

A: Circular Economy,

Decoupling & Zero Waste

B: Zero Waste Lectures

SS 5 room 18

President’s Meeting of Resource

Organisations(by invitation

only)

room 14

PROGRAM AT A GLANCEWRF 2017 – ACCELERATING THE RESOURCE REVOLUTION

Networking/Free Time Plenary Sessions Workshops (WS)

Back to Back EventsScientifi c Sessions (SS) WRF Cinema

TUESDAY 24


9.00 – 10.30 Setting the Scene & Special Keynote (room 2) ▪ Opening with Valentin Zellweger (Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations Offi ce and to the other international organisations in Geneva) and Xaver Edelmann (President, WRF)

▪ Introducing the WRF 2017 with Bas de Leeuw (Managing Director, WRF) ▪ Resource Revolution – Shaping the Future with Cornis van der Lugt (Senior Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University) ▪ Value of Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue – Business & Societies with Giulia Carbone (Deputy Director Global Business and Biodiversity Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature – IUCN)

▪ Special Keynote with Jørgen Randers (Professor Emeritus, Climate strategy, BI Norwegian Business School)Chair: Bas de Leeuw (Managing Director, WRF)


11.00 – 13.00

13.00 – 14.15 Lunch

14.15 – 16.15 Cooperation for Resource Effi ciency and Decoupling (room 2) ▪ Andrey Vasilyev (Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe – UNECE) ▪ Bernard Mathieu (Head Sustainable Development, LafargeHolcim) ▪ John Atherton (Director of Health, Safety & Product Stewardship, International Council on Mining and Metals – ICMM) ▪ Marc Chardonnens (Director, Swiss Federal Offi ce for the Environment – FOEN) ▪ Victoire de Margerie (Vice President, World Materials Forum)Chair: Anders Wijkman (Co-President, Club of Rome)


16.30 – 18.30

18.30 – 19.30 Aperitif – Celebrating the UN Environment International Resource Panel (IRP) 10th Anniversary (CICG exhibition area)

19.30 – 21.30 Gala Dinner (CICG restaurant area)


WS 1 room 3

Sustainable Sourcing of

Construction Materials

WS 2 room 4

Risk&Race: The game of Entrepreneur-

ship in a Circular Economy

WS 3 room 23


Development

WS 4 room 5

Measuring & Showcasing

Resource Effi ciency

SS 1 room 15


WS 1 room 3

Digital for Sustainability

In Need of a Disruptive Research

Agenda

WS 5 room 4

MEDEAS Project Resources, Climate Change, and the future of Europe

WS 6 room 6


Development

WS 4 room 5

Green Product Certifi cation in

India

WS 7 room 23

WRF Cinema

room 17

Society & Sustainable

Consumption

SS 2 room 13

Renewable & Eco-effi cient

Energy

SS 3 room 18

A: Sustainable Construction &

Smart-CitiesB: Water-Food

Nexus

SS 4 room 15

A: Circular Economy,

Decoupling & Zero Waste

B: Zero Waste Lectures

SS 5 room 18

President’s Meeting of Resource

Organisations(by invitation

only)

room 14

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Valentin Zellweger Permament Mission to the UNOG

Xaver Edelmann WRF

Bas de Leeuw WRF

Cornis van der Lugt Stellenbosch University

Giulia Carbone IUCN

Jørgen Randers BI Norwegian Business School

Andrey VasilyevUNECE

Bernard Mathieu LafargeHolcim

John Atherton ICMM

Marc Chardonnens FOEN

Victoire de Margerie World Materials Forum

Anders Wijkman Club of Rome

APPENDIX A: CONFERENCE PROGRAM


11.00 – 13.00

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.30


16.45 – 17.30 Intiatives Shaping the Future of Resource Effi ciency (room 2) ▪ Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information with Steven Stone (Chief, Resources and Markets Branch, UN Environ-ment), Regina Taimasova (Advisor on Sustainability Standards and Value Chains, Trade for Sustainable Development Programme, International Trade Centre), Norma Tregurtha (Policy and Outreach Director, ISEAL Alliance), Bettina Heller (Associate Programme Offi cer, Consumption and Production Unit, UN Environment) and moderated by Ian Fenn (Sustainable Consumption Manager, Consumers International)

▪ New Plastics Economy with Joss Blériot (Executive Offi cer, Ellen MacArthur Foundation)Chair: Bas de Leeuw (Managing Director, WRF)

17.30 – 18.30 Closing Session (room 2) ▪ Key Messages by Workshop organisers moderated by Bas de Leeuw (Managing Director, WRF) ▪ Main WRF 2017 Outcomes with Mathias Schluep (Program Director, WRF) ▪ Scientifi c Awards with Christian Ludwig (Group Head, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) & EPFL) & Sonia Valdivia (Program Manager, WRF)Chair: Xaver Edelmann (President, WRF)

International Cooperation on Raw Materials by EU H2020

Program

WS 8 room 3

Rural Urban Nexus

Governance for Sustainable Land Use through City

Region Food Strategies

WS 9 room 4

ODS Banks Management Challenges and Opportunities for

Collection, Recycling and Destruction of ODS and e-waste Containing ODS

WS 10 room 6

Creating Credible Metrics for the Impacts

of Circular Business Models

WS 11 room 5

Critical Metals and Minerals

SS 6 room 15

WRF Cinema

room 17

Resource Effi ciency for

a Circular Economy

SS 7 room 13

A Lifecycle Perspective

SS 8 room 18

Market Systems Development & Environmental Management in Developing

Countries

WS 12 room 3

Resource Effi cient

Production of Rare-Earth

Magnets The EU Project

REProMag

WS 13 room 4

Open Access Data & Modeling

Tools for 21st Century Energy

Challenges Power Watch,

OnSSET, & OSeMOSYS

WS 14 room 6

Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3)

Potential for Resource

Effi ciency in Construction Sector

WS 15 room 5

How to Transition from

Linear to Circular

WS 16 room 23

Sustainable Governance of Resources

SS 9 room 15

Turning Waste into Resources

SS 10 room 13

SDGs in the Global

Agenda of the Century

SS 11 room 18

BACK TO BACK EVENTS (BY INVITATION ONLY)

MONDAY 23

▪ Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) Life Cycle Inventories Stakeholder Meeting (room 5, 14.00 – 17.30) ▪ WRFA Board Meeting (room 16, 15.00 – 18.00) ▪ KRU Meeting – Resource Commission at the German Environment Agency (room 14, 9.00 – 18.00)

THURSDAY 26

▪ Towards a World Forum on Raw Materials (FORAM) Consortium Meeting (room 14, 8.30 – 10.00) ▪ Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI): A Framework for Inclusive Recycling (room 13, 10.30 – 12.30) ▪ Swiss Resources Forum (room 18, 14.00 –16.30) ▪ Sustainable Management of Critical Raw Materials (SusCritMat) Consortium Meeting (room 16, 8.30 – 15.30)

WEDNESDAY 25


9.00 – 10.30 Science and Society (room 2) ▪ Doaa Abdel-Motaal (Executive Director, Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health, Oxford Martin School) ▪ Harry Lehmann (General Director, Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies, German Federal Environment Agency – UBA) ▪ Janez Potočnik (Co-Chair, UN Environment IRP, former EC Commissioner for the Environment) ▪ Mathis Wackernagel (President, Global Footprint Network) ▪ Solitaire Townsend (Founder, Futerra)Chair: Sonia Valdivia (Program Manager, WRF) & Kenneth Ochoa (Director, Environmental Engineering Program, El Bosque University)



APPENDIX B: SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS PROGRAMME

Tuesday 24 October (11:00 – 13:00)

Measuring and Showcasing Resource Efficiency

Session Chairs: Kiichiro Hayashi, Ecotopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya – Japan Armin Reller, University of Augsburg – Germany

▪ Developing a spatially explicit, global material flow model to trace environmental impacts embo-died in international trade by Stefan Giljum, Martin Bruckner, Stephan Lutter – Austria

▪ Structural and production technology-based determinants of resource efficiency by Monika Dittrich, Birte Ewers, Karl Schoer, Claudia Kämper, Sabrina Ludmann, Jürgen Giegrich, Christian Sartorius, Torsten Hummen, Frank Marscheider-Weidemann – Germany

▪ Quantifying Potential Anthropogenic Resources through Hot Spot Analysis by Kuang-Ly Cheng, Wing-Man Li, Hwong-wen Ma, Shu-Chien Hsu – China

▪ Forest carbon stock assessment by a UAV technique: case study in Japanese forest by Kiichiro Hayashi, Satoru Sugita, Takashi Machimura, Ayana Fujimoto, Hiroaki Takagi – Japan

▪ Material Flow Analysis of Mobility in Switzerand by Cecilia Matasci, Marcel Gauch, Viola Rueh-lin, Heinz Böni – Switzerland

▪ Transforming infrastructures towards sustainability – lessons learnt from ICT-based peer-to-peer carsharing service Drivy in Germany by Mandy Hinzmann – Germany

▪ A system dynamics assessment of supply sufficiency for aerospace technology needs using WORLD6 by Peter Schlyter, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Anna Hulda Olofsdottir, Kristin Vala Rag-narsdottir – Sweden and Iceland

▪ How to measure the environmental sustainability: benchmarks LCA based for buildings and construction products by Sara Ganassali, Monica Lavagna, Andrea Campioli – Italy

▪ Multi-criteria decision-making on sustainable interior paints. A qualitative study for the expert users in Germany by Mariia Rochikashvili, Prof. Jan Clemens Bongaerts – Germany

▪ Manual dismantling of refrigerators and air conditioners: A practical guideline for technicians by Dr. Jonathan Heubes, Nidia Pabón Tello, Cinthya Berrio Boza – Colombia and Germany

▪ Life cycle assessment of municipal waste management in China: Analysis of operation of Yuhuan Municipal Solids Processing Facility by Slav Hermanowicz, Yihao Xiang, Siqing Xia – United States of America and China

▪ Reduction in Resource Use and GHG Emissions by Utilising the Biomass Wastes in the Malay-sian Oil Palm Industry by Vijaya Subramaniam, Zulkifli Hashim – Malaysia

▪ Sustainable Recycling Industries Project: providing the seed for sustainability measurements by Amir Safaei – Switzerland

▪ On the metal contents of ocean floor nodules, crusts and massive sulphides and a preliminary assessment of the extractable amounts by Anna Hulda Olofsdottir, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir – Iceland



Society and Sustainable Consumption

Session Chairs: Kenneth Ochoa, El Bosque University – Colombia Llorenç Milà i Canals, UN Environment

▪ Policy mixing for sustainable resource use – conceptual reflections from participatory policy mix design and scientific assessment by Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers, Ullrich Lorenz – Germany

▪ Corruption risks in the green economy by Johanna Gisladottir, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir, Ingrid Stjernquist – Iceland and Sweden

▪ Research Integrity and Responsible Innovation as drivers of Resilient Organizations by Marc Dreyer – Switzerland

▪ Accelerating the transition towards a circular economy for metals: opportunities for innovation by Damien Paul Giurco, Elsa Dominish, Samantha Sharpe, Benjamin Madden, Simon Wright, Monique Retamal, Nick Florin – Australia

▪ From the Raw Materials Initiative to National Mineral Policies: A case from Finland by Saku Vuori, Mari Kivinen, Asko Käpyaho – Finland

▪ Analysis of sustainability policy instruments in enhancing resource productivity and climate resili-ence with an emphasis on decoupling – case study of Nepal and Bangladesh by Bishal Baniya, Scott Kelly, Damien Giurco – Australia

▪ Towards a fair allocation of burdens in indicators of the efficient utilization of raw materials by Dominique Guyonnet, Jean-Louis Pasquier – France

▪ The environmental reporting, between strategic management and “greenwashing” by Claire Kwiatkowski, Jesús Alquézar Sabadie – Belgium

▪ Material input taxation – the forgotten tool in policy-mixes for resource protection by Benjamin Bongardt, Nele Kampffmeyer, Andreas Hermann – Germany

▪ Science communication for a transition towards sustainable resource use by Stephan Lutter, Stefan Giljum, Christopher Manstein – Austria and Germany

▪ Circular Economy and the Bio-based Sector – Insights into European and German Industry by Sina Leipold – Germany

▪ Bio-Inspired Sustainable Solutions for Human Induced Environmental Disasters by Ranjana Siva, Tarun Kumar, Meenakshi Piplani, Kriti Bhalla, Vishal Mishra – India

▪ pourDemain – Sustainability made Art by Zoe Cimatti, Marie Barone, Françoise Bridel, Marta Hans-Möevi, Bénédicte Pivot, Daniel Schilling – Switzerland


Renewable and Eco-efficient Energy

Session Chairs: Ron Zevenhoven, Åbo Akademi University – Finland Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network – United States of America

▪ World Energy Scenarios – three exploratory scenarios to 2060 by Tom Kober – Switzerland ▪ Decoupling energy consumption and economic growth: the role of structural effects by Catarina

Amarante de Oliveira Neves, Vincent Moreau, François Vuille – Switzerland ▪ Global energy interconnection: a step forward for universal access to energy? by Gloria Ber-

nasconi – Switzerland


▪ Power Watch: Illuminating the Power Sector through Open Data by Johannes Friedrich, Aaron Kressig, Colin McCormick, Logan Byers, Laura Valeri Malaguzzi, Roman Hennig – United States of America

▪ Why does material efficiency stay in the shades of energy efficiency? by Marlene Preiß, Christian Haubach, Mario Schmidt – Germany

▪ Life cycle thinking for energy and urban sustainability assessment profiles in Guatemala by Edgar Eduardo Sacayón, Alejandra Michelle Tercero – Guatemala

▪ Biomass residues for bioenergy products: a case study of rice straw from food-energy-water nexus perspective by Mengshan Lee, Chia-Chun Lin, Ying-Chen Lin, Pei-Te Chiueh – China

▪ How to promote the installation of photovoltaic systems by Nadia Sperr, Jürg Rohrer – Switzerland ▪ Implications of the 1.5-degrees target for the resource use of lifestyles by Michael Lettenmeier,

Mathis Wackernagel – Finland and United States of America ▪ Bio-mimicry Based Design Strategies for Climate Responsive Sustainable Architecture by Avantika

Srivastava, Tarun Kumar, Vishal Mishra, Kriti Bhalla, Manisha Basu – India ▪ The EcoKiln technology – Producing burnt clay bricks in an energy efficient manner by Soumen

Maity, Peter Schramm – India and Germany


Sustainable Construction and Smart-Cities

Session Chairs: Franz Georg Simon, Federal Institute for Materials Research – Germany Andreas Goessnitzer, Federal Office for the Environment FOEN – Switzerland

▪ Sustainable, and resilient cities: a multi-layered framework for conceptualizing urban systems by Claudia R. Binder, Pieter Bots, Thomas Bauwens, Susan Muehlemeier, Matthias Finger, Emanu-ele Massaro – Switzerland and The Netherlands

▪ Common Goods – a new concept for land management by Alexa K. Lutzenberger, Franziska Lichter, Sara Holzgreve – Germany

▪ Multidimensional Sustainability Assessment for Megacities by Stanislav Edward Shmelev – United Kingdom

▪ Building Sustainable Cities through Effective Urban Solid Waste Management by Remi Adey-emo – Nigeria

▪ The Global Urban Metabolism Database by Joao Meirelles, Paul Hoekman, Aristide Athanas-siadis, Yves Bettignies, Gabriela Fernandez, Franziska Meinherz, Claudia Binder – Switzerland, Belgium and Italy

The Water-Food Nexus

▪ Advanced Material Flow Analysis for Food Processing Trade Villages for Environmental and Re-source Management in Red River Delta, Vietnam by Nguyet Tran, Dirk Weichgrebe, Karl-Heinz Rosenwinkel – Germany

▪ Sustainable use of natural resources in different out-of-home catering settings: Sustainability as-sessment of meals by Tobias Engelmann, Katrin Bienge, Holger Rohn, Melanie Speck – Germany

▪ Step-wells: Reviving India’s Cultural and Traditional Water Storage Systems by Meenakshi Pi-plani, Tarun Kumar – India

▪ Trans Boundary Headwater Governance in Hindu Kush Himalaya: A Regional Cooperation Framework for Climate Change Adaptation, Water and Food Security and Peace in South Asia by Prakash C. Tiwari, Bhagwati Joshi – India

▪ Technical and Environmental Efficiency of Informal SMEs in Agro-processing in Cameroon by Armand Totouom – Cameroon


▪ Smart Sensor Buoys: scalable solution for continuous and flexible water monitoring by Dennis Cüneyt Bakir, Robin Bakir – Germany

▪ Towards the Nexus City: urban water reclamation and reuse as key synergy potential to close resource loops in Munich, Germany and Leh, India by Daphne Gondhalekar, Jörg E. Drewes – Germany


Circular Economy, Decoupling and Zero Waste

Session Chairs: Richard Anthony, Richard Anthony Associates – United States of America Bill Worrell, San Luis Obispo County Integrated Waste Management Authority – United States of America

▪ Resource Education as a key factor for Resource Preservation and Efficiency: The role of educa-tional networks by Holger Rohn, Carolin Baedeker, Jaya Bowry, Angelika Wilhelm-Rechmann, Michael Scharp – Germany

▪ Resource Education: the Case for Professional Level Training for Implementing Resource Preserva-tion and Efficiency by Carolin Baedeker, Marco Hasselkuß, Lydia Illge, Maurizia Magro, Janire Clavell – Germany

▪ Targeting vocational training: education for the implementation of resource conservation by Michael Scharp, Angelika Wilhelm-Rechmann – Germany

▪ The multiplying of household appliances: constructing normality across socio-economic groups in Western Switzerland by Marlyne Sahakian, Beatrice Bertho – Switzerland

▪ Resource use of sport activities – Implications for consumption and production by Michael Letten-meier, Christa Liedtke, Holger Rohn – Germany and Finland

▪ Latin American Retail Sector – Improving its Products by Design by Svetlana Samayoa, Sonia Valdivia, Claire Kneller, Giorgio Bagordo, Mark Barthel

Zero Waste Lectures – by Zero Waste Associates

▪ The road towards zero waste or lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it’s been by Bill Worrell – United States of America

▪ Crowd Sourcing Zero Waste by Portia Sinnott – United States of America ▪ Moving towards the end of waste in an inclusive circular economy by Anne Scheinberg – The

Netherlands ▪ The Beach Litter Project by Bhavish Patel – Switzerland

Wednesday 25 October (11:00 – 13:00)

Critical Metals and Minerals

Session Chairs: Helmut Rechberger, Vienna University of Technology – Austria Christian Hagelüken, Umicore – Belgium

▪ Time of scarcity horizons for technology metals, precious metals, base metals, superalloy metals, battery technology metals and infrastructure materials by Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir, Harald U Sverdrup, Anna Hulda Olafsdottir, Deniz Koca – Iceland and Sweden

▪ Exploring competing demand for critical materials and its impact on identification and mitigation of materials criticality by Yulia Lapko – Italy and Sweden


▪ Screening of the criticality level for precious metals on social sustainability issues by Keisuke Nansai, Nao Tsukamoto, Susumu Tohno, Yasushi Kondo, Shigemi Kagawa – Japan

▪ Prospecting Secondary Raw Materials in the Urban Mine and Mining Wastes (PROSUM) by Pascal Leroy, Daniel Cassard, Sarah Downes, Jaco Huisman, Susanne Rotter, Patrick Wäger – Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland

▪ Rare earth metals recycling from e-wastes: Strategy and perspective by Ajay Bhagwan Patil, Rudolf Struis, Albert Schuler, Mohamed Tarik, Andreas Krebs, Werner Larsen, Christian Ludwig – Switzerland

▪ Does the recycling of rare earth elements fit in a strategy against climate change? by Guido Sonnemann, Dieuwertje Schrijvers – France

▪ Transforming phosphogypsum waste into products with market value by Ron Zevenhoven, Victor Morales-Flórez, Alberto Santos, Luis Equivias – Finland and Spain

▪ Statistical entropy quantifies resource efficiency: Case study on phosphorus use in Austria by Helmut Rechberger, David Laner, Ottavia Zoboli – Austria

▪ Opportunities and challenges to closing the Phosphorus supply chain through Phosphorus reco-very in European urban areas. A case study on Stockholm, Sweden and Budapest, Hungary by Claudiu Eduard Nedelciu, Krístin Vala Ragnarsdóttir, Ingrid Stjernquist – Iceland and Sweden

▪ Phosphorus removal and recovery from wastewater effluents by nanofiltration by Oded Nir, Da-niel Collignon, Sengpiel Robert, Wessling Matthias – Israel and Germany


Resource Efficiency for a Circular Economy

Session Chairs: Janeth Sanabria Gómez, Universidad del Valle-Sede Meléndez – Colombia Lorena del Pilar Munoz – Chile

▪ The role of Research and Innovation for the transition to a Circular Economy in Europe. Evidence from the Community Innovation Survey 2014 by Jesús Alquézar Sabadie, Claire Kwiatkowski – Belgium

▪ BREAKING OUT THE SILOS! Engineering is an art – Novel perspectives in Circular Economy by Nani Pajunen, Riikka Mäkikoskela – Finland

▪ Green manufacturing towards a circular economy: perspectives from Brazilian manufacturing industries by Diogo Aparecido Lopes Silva – Brazil

▪ Material use within planetary boundaries: evidence for the global paper system by Stijn Van Ewijk, Julia Stegemann, Paul Ekins – United Kingdom

▪ Resource efficiency of wood-plastic composites by Philipp F. Sommerhuber – Germany ▪ Quantification and Mapping of Above-Ground Metal Resources Across Australia by Xuan Zhu

– Australia ▪ Raw Material flow in Informal Sectors in India by Lakshmi Raghupathy – India ▪ Integrating informal sector recycling into waste management – Insights from value chain analysis

of 3 Asian Countries by Sanjay K Gupta – Switzerland ▪ Spatial planning, urban design and resources use. Medellin, Colombia case study by Santiago

Cadavid Arbelaez – Colombia ▪ Ammonia resistant microorganisms for efficient and sustainable bio-fertilizer production by Janeth

Sanabria, Claudia Rodriguez, Carolina Ospina – Colombia ▪ Squaring the circular economy: reconciling recycling performance metrics to make the circular

economy achievable and measurable by Anne Scheinberg, Jeroen IJgosse, Michael H. Simpson, Nathalia Lima, Rachel A. Savain – The Netherlands, Brazil and United States of America



A Lifecycle Perspective

Session Chairs: Guido Sonnemann, University of Bordeaux – France David Turner, Empa – Switzerland

▪ Advances and gaps in the research of environmental impacts of food packaging applications using LCA by Ankit Aggarwal, Horst-Christian Langowski – Germany

▪ Life Cycle Assessment of Two Parchment Coffee Crops in San Francisco de Sales, Cundinam-arca, Colombia by Catherine Andrea Guzman, Juliana Andrea Pardo, Kenneth Ochoa – Co-lombia

▪ Water, food safe and bioenergy, an approach from life cycle assessment and system dynamics models by Sandra Bautista, Yulia Ivanova, Paulo Narvaez, Mauricio Camargo – Colombia and France

▪ Methodology for the life cycle assessment of clay masonry from energy and water consumption by Sergio Alfonso Ballen Zamora, Liliana Medina Campos, Luz Amparo Hinestrosa Ayala, Adri-ana Cubides Perez, James Ortega Morales – Colombia

▪ Life Cycle Criticality Assessment: Basic methodology with an application to an electronic car by Guido Sonnemann, Steven B. Young, Alexander Cimprich, Christoph Helbig, Andrea Thorenz, Axel Tuma – France, Canada and Germany

▪ Life cycle assessment of copper production: comparison of primary and secondary supply routes by David Anthony Turner, Arthur Haarman, Roland Hischier – Switzerland

▪ Life Cycle Analysis of gold benefit process in the enterprise Placetas Mining Productions by Elena Regla Rosa Dominguez, Yuniey Quiala Armenteros, Susana Diaz Aguirre, Nydia Suppen Reynaga, Navarro Perdomo Yessica, Contreras Moya Ana – Cuba and México

▪ Life Cycle Initiative: Applying Life Cycle Thinking Towards a Sustainable Future by Llorenc Mila i Canals, Feng Wang (UN Environment)

▪ Life Cycle Analysis as an eco-efficiency tool in small and medium enterprises: a literature review towards the promotion of its implementation by Angela Tatiana Prias Mahecha, Kenneth Ochoa – Colombia

▪ Life-Cycle Inventory Databases as a Support for Sustainable Public Procurement: Opportunities in Brazil by Thiago Oliveira Rodrigues, Tiago Emmanuel Nunes Braga – Brazil

▪ Identification of most relevant characterization factors to be regionalized in Brazil by Ugaya Cássia Maria Lie; Cuzinsky, Fernando C. – Brazil

▪ Ecosystem services valorization in agroecosystems, an approach of life cycle assessment and system dynamics models by Sandra Bautista, Vladimir Melgarejo, Nohora Leon – Colombia

▪ Actions for Prevention of Food Loss and Waste by Using a Life Cycle Thinking Approach by Aithza Catalina Giraldo de los Rios – Chile


Sustainable Governance of Resources

Session Chairs: Jennifer Helgeson, National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST – USA Cornis van der Lugt, Stellenbosch University Business School – South Africa

▪ Human rights policies of metal and mining companies: is silence golden? by Julia Göhringer – Germany


▪ Stakeholder Acceptance of Sustainable Standard Systems in Mining by Rasmus Tröster, Samuel Drempetic, Philipp Sauer, Fabian Krause, Michael Hiete – Germany

▪ Extractive Revenues & Local Resource Curse: Comparative Case Analysis in the Peruvian Andes by Sandra Carrillo – Peru

▪ Towards sustainable mining – Integrated information system on raw material production and trade by Andreas Manhart, Doris Schüler, Stefanie Degreif, Peter Dolega – Germany

▪ Order in the ‘mining–development disorder’: Property rights regime of gold mining and the out-comes on sustainable development in Ghana by Stephen Yeboah, Martha Amoako – Switzerland and Czech Republic

▪ Private governance in the making – a governance network analysis of the transition from niche governance towards convergence of sustainability initiatives and standards in the global gold sector by Jens Michael Heidingsfelder, Dimitar Zvezdov – Germany

▪ Enhancing the international cooperation on mineral policies by developing a World Forum on Raw Materials (WFRM) by Blažena Hamadová, Diego Murguia, Günter Tiess – Austria

▪ Business Sustainability: an Alternative Approach to Innovation and Cooperation by Oscar Alberto Vargas – Colombia

▪ How does a Type III environmental declaration can support Sustainable Consumption and Pro-duction? by Maud Jacquot, Etienne Lees Perasso – Switzerland and France

▪ The Resilience Dividend Accounting for the Co-benefits of Resilience Planning by Jennifer Freya Helgeson – United States of America

▪ Eco-industrial park initiatives in Vietnam by Phuong Thanh Tran (UNIDO) ▪ Rejuvenation of Lakes in Indian Cities: A Case Study for Betterment of Wetlands in Bangalore

by Ranjana Siva, Tarun Kumar, Avantika Srivastava, Kriti Bhalla, Meenakshi Piplani, Manisha Basu, Vishal Mishra – India


Turning Waste into Resources

Session Chairs: Deepali Sinha Khetriwal, Sofies India – India Damien Giurco, University of Technology – Australia

▪ Decision Support Methodology for Designing Efficient and Sustainable Recycling Pathways by Guilhem Grimaud, Bertrand Laratte, Nicolas Perry – France

▪ Symbiotic Recycling Systems for Harmonizing Ecological and Economic Sustainability by Gau-ranga Das – India

▪ Plastic and Marine Debris: What Can Be Done about bottle caps? by Richard V. Anthony – United States of America

▪ Do the benefits of avoiding the use of virgin materials outweigh extra efforts for recycling into high-grade products? A case study of plastic waste recycling into a green roof tile by Sophie Huysveld, Karen Van Kets, Sara Hubo, Kim Ragaert, Jo Dewulf – Belgium

▪ Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Recycling in Emerging and Developing Economies by Sonia Valdivia, Mathias Schluep, Rolf Widmer, Rolf Widmer, Anna-Katharina Hagedorn – Switzerland

▪ Compare and Contrast: Informal Recycling in the EU, US and Around the World by Portia Sin-nott, Anne Scheinberg, Jelena Nesic – United States of America, The Netherlands and Serbia

▪ Extended Producer Responsibility In Developing Countries: Success Factors for Informal-Formal E-Waste Partnerships by Daniel Hinchliffe, Priti Mahesh, Jai Kumar Gaurav, Gautam Mehra – Germany and India

▪ Systemic Policy for a More Sustainable WEEE Management: the Case of Colombia by Sandra Mendez Fajardo, Alberto Hernández Carlos, Angel Camacho, Andrea López, Florencia Leal, Heinz Böni, Mathias Schluep – Switzerland and Colombia


▪ Sustainable E-Waste Management in Ghana by Michael Funcke-Bartz, Markus Spitzbart – Ger-many and Ghana

▪ Collateral damage of digital economy: The accumulation of e-waste as a by product of mobile services proliferation by Natalia Milovantseva – Russian Federation

▪ Electronic waste (e-waste) impacts and mitigation options in the off-grid renewable energy sector by Federico Magalini, Deepali Sinha, David Rochat, Jaco Huisman – India and Switzerland

▪ Improving livelihoods through Waste to Energy Facilities Feasible in Sub-Saharan countries by Alodia William Ishengoma, Raymond Ategbi Okrofu – Ghana


SDGs in the Global Agenda of the Century

Session Chairs: Sanjeevan Bajaj, FICCI Quality Forum – India Claudia Binder, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL – Switzerland

▪ Sustainable Development Goals: knowledge development on the social dimension of raw mate-rials by Lucia Mancini, Serenella Sala, Dominic Wittmer, David Pennington – Italy

▪ Accelerating the transition towards living well within the planetary boundaries by Andreas Hau-ser, Loa Buchli, Alexandra Strauss – Switzerland

▪ Indicators for measuring the resilience of energy transitions by Claudia R. Binder, Susan Mueh-lemeier, Romano Wyss – Switzerland

▪ The WORLD6 model for evaluation of natural resource sustainability considering metals, materi-als, energy, population and food by Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Anna Hulda Olofsdottir, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir, Deniz Koca – Iceland and Sweden

▪ Cleantech Innovations – UNIDO pathway for achieving SDGs by Reshmi Vasudevan, Sandeep Tandon (UNIDO)

▪ Can the mining sector contribute to implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals? Observations on SDG6 from Peru and Mongolia by Nadja Catherine Kunz, Bern Klein, Andre Xavier – Canada

▪ Mining royalties – challenges and opportunities to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and intergenerational equity in the peripheral mining regions by Maria Amélia Rodrigues da Silva Enríquez, João Gustavo Gouveia Loureiro – Brazil

▪ Disruption or Equilibrium? An Ecosystemic Approach for the Problems of our Time by André Francisco Pilon – Brazil

▪ Ecological and Socio-Technical Assessment of Collaborative Consumption: Resource Efficiency Potentials by Katrin Bienge, Paul Suski, Sebastian Kiefer, Monika Wirges, Martina Schmitt – Ger-many

▪ A Case for Integrating Sustainable Development Goals with Business Policy by Sanjeevan Bajaj – India

▪ Elephant in the Boardroom: Why Unchecked Consumption is Not an Option in Tomorrow’s Markets by Deborah Drew, Eliot Metzger, Kevin Moss, Samantha Putt del Pino – United States of America

▪ The Long View - Exploring Product Lifetime Extension by Bettina Heller (UN Environment) ▪ Education for Food Action by Marilyn Mehlmann, Carlos Oppe – Sweden


APPENDIX C: COMMITTEES

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Dr. Sonia Valdivia, Co-ChairWorld Resources Forum – Switzerland

Prof. Christian Ludwig, ChairPaul Scherrer Institute and EPFL – Switzerland

Dr. Lewis AkenjiInstitute for Global Environmental Strategies – Japan

Prof. Bina AgarwalUniversity of Manchester – UK

Richard AnthonyRichard Anthony Associates – USA

Dr. Sanjeevan BajajFederation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Quality Forum – India

Heinz BöniSwiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Empa – Switzerland

Prof. Martin CharterCentre for Sustainable Design – UK

Prof. Halina BrownClark University, Worcester – USA

Prof. Enrico DrioliSchool of Engineering of the University of Calabria – Italy

Prof. Paul EkinsInstitute for Sustainable Resources, University College London and UN Environment IRP – UK

Prof. Amélia EnríquezBureau of Industry and Mining, State of Pará – Brazil

Prof. Claudia BinderEPFL – Switzerland

Mariano CastroOptimiza Gestion S.A.C. – Peru

Prof. Marina Fischer-KowalskiInstitute for Social Ecology in Vienna and UN Environment IRP – Austria

Prof. Damien GiurcoUniversity of Technology – Australia


Andreas GössnitzerSwiss Federal Office for the Environment FOEN – Switzerland

Dr. Christian HagelükenUmicore – Belgium

Dr. Anthony HalogUniversity of Queensland – Australia

Prof. Kiichiro HayashiEcotopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya – Japan

Dr. Jennifer HelgesonNational Institute of Standards and Technology NIST – USA

Prof. Lorenz HiltySwiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Empa and University of Zurich – Switzerland

Dr. Harald MattenbergerVienna – Austria

Prof. Ramzy KahhatPontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru – Peru

Dr. Michal MiedzinskiTechnopolis Group – Belgium

Prof. Daniel MüllerNorwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU – Norway

Prof. Claudia PeñaADDERE – Chile

Dr. Timothy PriorETH Zürich, Centre for Security Studies – Switzerland


Prof. Helmut RechbergerVienna University of Technology – Austria

Prof. Janeth Sanabria GómezUniversidad del Valle - Sede Meléndez – Colombia

Prof. Armin RellerUniversity of Augsburg – Germany

Dr. Lorena del Pilar MunozConsultant – Chile


Dr. Heinz SchandlCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization CSIRO – Australia

Dr. Mathias SchluepWorld Resources Forum – Switzerland

Dr. Franz Georg SimonFederal Institute for Materials Research – Germany

Prof. Fabio Soares de MeloSoares de Melo Advogados – Brazil

Prof. Guido SonnemannUniversity of Bordeaux – France

Prof. Sangwon SuhBren School of Environmental Scien-ces and Management, University of California – USA

Prof. Walter StahelProduct-Life Institute – Switzerland

Prof. Arnold TukkerCML - Leiden University – The Netherlands

Dr. Cornis Van der LugtCentre for Corporate Governance in Africa, Stellenbosch University Business School – South Africa

Dr. Patrick WägerSwiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Empa – Switzerland

Prof. Markku WileniusFinland Futures Research Centre, Turku/Helsinki – Finland


Prof. Dajian ZhuTongji University – China

William WorrellSan Luis Obispo County Integrated Waste Management Authority – USA

Prof. Ron ZevenhovenÅbo Akademi University – Finland

Dr. Christian ZurbrüggSwiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Eawag – Switzerland

Prof. Helga WeiszHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin and PIK – Germany


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE WRF 2017


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Xaver EdelmannPresident, World Resources Forum – Switzerland

Bruno OberleVice–President, World Resources ForumEPFL – Switzerland

Bas de LeeuwWorld Resources Forum – Switzerland

María Lucía HíjarWorld Resources Forum – Switzerland

Cecilia MatasciWorld Resources Forum – Switzerland

Shahrzad Manoochehri World Resources Forum – Switzerland

María SuredaWorld Resources Forum – Switzerland

Nicole NussbaumerWorld Resources Forum – Switzerland

Mathias Schluep World Resources Forum – Switzerland

Sonia ValdiviaWorld Resources Forum – Switzerland

Martine Rohn-BrossardVice–President, World Resources ForumFOEN – Switzerland

Rafael WidmerWorld Resources Forum – Switzerland


Soner AvciConsultant

Anna-Katharina HagedornWorld Resources Forum – Switzerland

Thad MermerWorld Resources Forum – Switzerland

Sandra Méndez FajardoWorld Resources Forum – Switzerland

Robert StürmerAssociate Photographer – Switzerland

We would like to thank

▪ Claudia Frisch ▪ Catalina Giraldo ▪ Katharina Kummer ▪ Laura Platchkov ▪ Philip Strothmann

for their contribution as part of the reporting team, as well as the WRF 2017 volunteers for their valuable engagement:

▪ Ankit Aggarwal ▪ Eya Damergi ▪ Debora Foppiano ▪ Catherine Guzman ▪ Arthur Haarman ▪ Gisela Herlein ▪ Sandra Müller ▪ Šana Rajković ▪ Ruweyda Stillhart ▪ David Turner ▪ Cui Zhimin


APPENDIX D: PARTNERS

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