08.04.24. New publication in Nature Sustainability: "Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European #cement industry". 15 decarbonization options are assessed across a range of sustainability indicators.

14.12.2023. Our researchers Edgar Hertwich, Anders Hammer Strømman and Helene Muri comment on the agreement from the UN climate negotiations, COP28.

Photo: COP28

23.11.2023. Introducing MarINvaders, our interactive web toolkit! We've compiled a database of 112,399 marine species, uncovering 966 aliens and 1,655 listed as threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature

Figure: Unsplash

05.07.2023. Congratulations to Dafna for winning first place in the creative abstract competition at IS4IE for the video on the Sustainability game that is developed by Dafna Gilad, Sif de Visser, Philip Gjedde, Martin Dorber, Jan Borgelt and Francesca Verones! 

Photo: Francesca Verones/NTNU

January 2023. The RAINFOREST project will contribute to enabling, upscaling and accelerating transformative change to reduce biodiversity impacts of major food and biomass value chains. Funded by Horizon Europe. 

Photo from kick-off meeting in Lerkendal Gård, Trondheim. 

October 2022. ALIGNED PROJECT will advance the scientific field of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and collaborate with industries and representatives from five bio-based sectors: construction, woodworking, textile, pulp and paper, and bio-chemicals.

Photo: Aligned project website

1.12.2022. Paved roads provide a lot of services such as enabling us to travel and move goods. This study, published in Environmental Science & Tenchnology, assesses the global road material stock and the emissions associated with materials’ production. 

Figure: Lola S. A. Rousseau

February 2021. LCA and scenario analysis of a Norwegian net-zero GHG emission neighbourhood: The importance of mobility and surplus energy from PV technologies. C.Lausselet, K.M.Lund and H.Brattebø. Published at Building and Environment

Photo: Asplan Viak and Elverum vekst.

02.01.2024. New publication which addresses a fundamental challenge related to geological stock accounting. Solving this problem is essential for creating transparency in global raw material use and associated environmental and social conflicts.

Figure: Mark U. Simoni/NTNU

07.12.2023. Archetype-based energy and material use estimation for the residential buildings in Arab Gulf countries. This paper explores the characteristics of residential buildings in the GCC region and their effects on energy and material use.

Figure: Sahin Akin/NTNU

22.11.2023. Francesca Verones and Martin Dorber have written the ‘Biodiversity’ chapter, part of the book 'Engineering and Ecosystems'. Read more about the intersection of biodiversity, ecosystem services, and sustainable energy.

Photo: Unsplash

July 2023. In this Review article, we discuss the role of LCA in evaluating and shaping strategies on the decarbonization of energy systems, circular economy, sustainable consumption, and sustainable finance.

Photo: Unsplash

01.03.2023. Net Climate Effects of Moose Browsing in Early Successional Boreal Forests by Integrating Carbon and Albedo Dynamics. New publication co-authored by Xiangping Hu, Cristina Maria Iordan and Francesco Cherubini.

Photo: Colourbox

October 2022. BAMBOO PROJECT will provide comprehensive and detailed knowledge of the effects of biomass trade from land and sea on biodiversity and ecosystem services and an improved way of identifying leverage points.

Photo from kick-off meeting in Leiden (The Netherlands) on bamboo website. 

18.02.2021.  New publication at Nature Sustainability: The land–energy–water nexus of global bioenergy potentials from abandoned cropland. Authors: Jan Sandstad Næss, Otavio Cavalett & Francesco Cherubini.

Photo: Colourbox

21.05.2021. Is crushed Norwegian rock the solution to the global sand crisis? A new publication Sustainability of the global sand system in the urban era co-authored by Mark Simoni and Daniel Müller in One Earth.

Photo: Mark Simoni/NTNU
 

People's demands for buildings are changing with demographic changes. It's vital to identify which types of buildings are decreasing in demand and which are seeing an increase, says PhD candidate Jiajia Li. Photo: Maren Agdestein/NTNU  (30.08.2023)

The MariTeam model is a tool that combines data from various sources to calculate, track and report emissions from ships across the world fleet. Anders H. Strømman and Helene Muri presented the tool at Ocean Week in Trondheim. Photo: Colourbox (03.05.2023)

Addressing the energy crisis while delivering on EU’s climate objectives. This is the latest report by the EU's climate advisory board. 
Prof. Edgar Hertwich has been selected to be member of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change. Photo: Colourbox (07.02.2023)
 

Tiny homes to fix the climate? New blog post by Prof. Edgar Hertwich (12.12.2020)

Fewer cows, more trees and bioenergy. Francesco Cherubini serves as lead author of Chapter 6 for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land.
(08.08.2019)

Using the hypothetical extraction method to understand the role of materials and manufacturing. 
This webinar seeks to clarify the relationship of the hypothetical extraction method, linkage analysis, and the supply chain impact approach. Photo: Colourbox. (05.06.2023)
 

Energy & Data Science for the Just Transition with keynote speaker Daniel M. Kammen.
Panel discussion on the Just Transition to a Zero-Carbon Energy System with Francesca Verones, Magnus Korpås, Edgar Hertwich, Helge Brattebø. Photo: Triantafyllia Pappa/NTNU (08.02.2023)

The Industrial Ecology Digital Lab provides sustainable digital solutions for sustainability research. (01.01.2021)

Losing ground in biodiversity hotspots worldwide: Agriculture is eating into areas that are important in protecting some of the most biologically diverse places on the planet. Most of this new agricultural land is being used to grow cattle feed. (29.10.2020)