SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME WRF23

Global and Regional Circular Economy Perspectives (1A)

PRESENTATIONS

• Phosphorus recycling from wastewater – The funding measure RePhoR (Regional Phosphorus Recycling) of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  Presenter: Sophia Schüller – Forschungsinstitut für Wasserwirtschaft und Klimazukunft (FiW), RWTH Aachen, Germany

• Implementing circular economy in EU regions – a policy Delphi study
  Presenter: Sanja Arsova – South-East European Research Centre, Greece & Sheffield University Management School, United Kingdom

• From FineFuture to FINEST towards a more sustainable circular economy
  Presenter: Stefan Dirlich – Helmholtz-Institute Freiberg for Resource Technolgy at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany

• Materials-as-a-Service (Maas) – Resource Leasing in the Context of Global North/South Circular Economy Transitions Presenter: Sabine Oberhuber – Turntoo, Netherlands

• Linear versus circular: differentiation factors in customer value propositions of reusable packaging Presenter: Päivi Petänen – VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

• Resource Efficiency to Resource Sufficiency: Role of Innovations in a Circular Economy Framework vis-à-vis Sustainable Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE)
  Presenter: Rachna Arora & Vivek Jaisree Mohandas– GIZ, India

Sustainable value chains & plastics (1B)

PRESENTATIONS

• Further strengthening the EU raw materials knowledge base through the JRC’s Raw Materials Information System (RMIS)
  Presenter: Fernando Coelho – European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Italy

• Conceptual and Methodological Framework on the Availability and Recoverability of Secondary Raw Materials (SRMs) focusing on Critical Raw Materials (CRMs)
  Presenter: Kirsten Remmen – Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

• Linking mismanaged plastic waste flows to critical ecosystems in the Western Indian Ocean
  Presenter: Janaka deSilva – IUCN, Switzerland

• Model-based LCSA: Assessing circular economy solutions for currently underutilized or unused plastic waste, end-of-life electric vehicle batteries, and bio-based side and waste streams
  Presenter: Alexander Koch – GreenDelta, Germany

• Implementation strategy and results of Santa Marta pilot project for local prevention of Marine Litter
  Presenter: Alejandra Gámez – Fundación Socya, Colombia

• “Just Transition” under the Plastics Treaty Agenda
  Presenter: Alexandra Harrington – Law School, Lancaster University, UK

Sufficiency perspectives (1C)

PRESENTATIONS

• Grassroots understandings of sufficiency: Critique, solutions, lifestyle choices
  Presenter: Tina Nyfors – University of Helsinki, Finland

• Linking Innovation and Sufficiency: Reviewing Theory and Practice
  Presenter: Indra da Silva Wagner – University of Hohenheim, Germany

• Sufficiency & the Just Transition: Toward an ethic of enough in resource custodianship and governance
  Presenter: Julie Hassman – University of Cape Town, South Africa

• Sustainability Assessment of neighborhoods in a national Sustainable Building perspective: Approaching sufficiency measure integration
  Presenter: Annika Hock – Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt– und Raumforschung (BBSR), Germany

• Household wellbeing: the key to a sustainable and sufficient economy

         Presenter: Eleni Papathanasopoulou – American College of Greece

• Sufficiency as a dwelling practice – the role of the architect vs the role of the occupant
  Presenter: Griet Verbeeck – Uhasselt, Belgium

Life cycle based approaches (2A)

PRESENTATIONS

• Development of a life cycle-based sustainability analysis framework: Application to the South African plastics value chain
  Presenter: Taahira Goga – University of Cape Town, South Africa

• Life Cycle Assessment and Costs of Biochar Production from Palm Oil and Rice Wastes for Soil Amendment
  Presenter: Djasmine Mastisya Saharudin – The University of Manchester, UK

• Life Cycle Sustainability Management (LCSM) in SMEs – Learnings from electronics in the developing economies
  Presenter: Loay Radwan – World Resources Forum, Switzerland

• Life Cycle Approaches for Biodiversity Impacts of Mining and Resource Extraction: Combining Remote Sensing and Life Cycle Assessment
  Presenter: Michael Götz – Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland

• An integrated methodology to assess environmental, social and economic impacts                                                                     Presenter: Sanjeevan Bajaj – CRPG, India & FSLCI, Germany

• Life Cycle Assessment for selected Blue Lagoon skincare products
  Presenter: Silvana Loayza – Reykjavik University, Iceland

E-waste frameworks, business models and management (2B)

PRESENTATIONS

• Addressing informal e-waste management in India: the Ecowork project and its challenges and successes in establishing a co-working facility in Delhi
  Presenter: Dea Wehrli – Empa, Switzerland & Ecowork, India

• The role of e-waste repurposing business models Presenter: Kwaku Addai – Electro Recycling Ghana

• Financing e-waste collection and recycling in low- and middle-income countries – suggestions for operational principles for the concept of ‘e-waste compensation’
  Presenter: Andreas Mannhart – Öko-Institut e.V., Germany

• Enhancing Capacities of Local Authorities for Sound E-Waste Management in GhanaPresenter: Lydia Essuah –  Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), Ghana

• Sustainable Circular Economy Assessment Framework for E-waste Treatment Plant in developing countries – Case Study of Cuenca, Ecuador
  Presenter: Gabriela Sucozhañay – University of Cuenca, Ecuador

• Sustainable Recycling Industries Impacts on Egypt
  Presenter: Ghada Moghny – CEDARE, Egypt

• Evaluation of the suitability of the Buipe Cement Kiln of Savanna Diamond Ltd. (Ghana) for co-processing of TDF and WEEE-plastics waste
  Presenter: Tobias Schleicher – Öko-Institut e.V., Germany

Societal Relevance (2C)

PRESENTATIONS

• The final count-down: Estimating the total value of the world’s natural resources and tracing the origins and fate of global wealth and prosperity
  Presenter: Harald Ulrik Sverdrup – Inland Norway University

• Move it: mobility in transition
  Presenter: Christophe Roncato Tounsi – University Grenoble Alpes, France

• Indigenous knowledge system and practices for forest conservation in Vhembe region in Limpopo Province, South Africa
  Presenter: Innocent Sinthumule – University of Johannesburg, South Africa

• Securing municipal drinking water supply in rivalrous settings – an analysis of power resources and equity in cases from India, Spain and the USA
  Presenter: Laura Turley – University of Geneva, Switzerland

• Green Terrace: A learning-by-doing model to empower sustainable practices in communities in Bogota, Colombia
  Presenter: Sandra Mendez Fajardo – Skat Foundation, Switzerland

• Gender Equity for A Just Green-Digital Twin Transition: A Multi-level Mapping of South Africa’s Value Chains and Sectors
  Presenter: Shamira Ahmed – Data Economy Policy Hub (DepHUB), South Africa 

Circular economy: from global to local (2D)

PRESENTATIONS

• SCP-HAT: An online tool to support science-based policy development for sustainable consumption and production
  Presenter: Stephan Lutter – Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria

• How effective is product stewardship in supporting a circular economy in Australia?
  Presenter: Nick Florin – Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney & Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence, Sydney, Australia

• A South African Circular Economy Platform – Insights on breaking silos and accelerating a Circular Economy
  Presenter: Katharina Gihring – African Circular Economy Network, South Africa

• Resource-efficient Circular Economy – Innovative Product Cycles (ReziProK)”: Innovative business models, eco-efficient design concepts and digital technologies
  Presenter: Celine Schielke – DECHEMA e.V., Germany

• A circular economy approach to the municipal solid waste management in Paris
  Presenter: Jean Pierre Doussoulin – Université Gustave Eiffel, France & Universidad Austral de Chile

• Eco-Industrial Parks as route to a circular economy
  Presenter: Bernd Oellermann – NCPC-SA, South Africa

• Transforming traditional waste management in cities into zero waste cities, through the digitization of municipal plans for integrated management of urban solid waste. Case study in Florianópolis. Presenter: Gustavo Rittl – Social Scientist, Brazil

The energy, climate change and materials nexus (2E)

PRESENTATIONS

• Decarbonisation to drive dramatic increase in mining waste – Options for reduction
  Presenter: Eleonore Lebre – The University of Queensland, Australia

• Europe is a major importer of deforestation embodied in metal products
  Presenter: Stefan Giljum – Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

• Methodological Framework to Assess Climate Neutrality and Circularity with dynamic LCA – Case Study e-Trucks
  Presenter: Gerfried Jungmeier – Joanneum Research, Austria

• Ghana and Senegal’s Residential Boom: Opportunities for Scaling Local Biogenic and Geogenic Building Material Resources
  Presenter: Mae-ling Lokko – Yale University & Willow Technologies, Ghana

• Real-time, sensor-based assessment of environmental impacts in industrial production
  Presenter: Charisios Achillas – International Hellenic University, Greece

• Empowering sustainable buildings: Data-Driven Solutions for Estimating Energy Needs & CO2 Emissions. Presenter: Volodymyr Getmanskyi – ELEKS, Ukraine

Local circular economy initiatives(2F)

PRESENTATIONS

• Implementation of a concept for the valorization of organic waste in a municipality in Costa Rica
  Presenter: Jacques G. Fuchs – Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landanbau (FiBL), Switzerland

• Inception of India’s first-of-its-kind Waste Recycling – Resource Recovery Park in Tholai village, Jaipur, Rajasthan
  Presenter: Rachna Arora – GIZ, India

• Inclusive recycling in Costa Rica: The case of organics in the municipality of Turrialba
  Presenter: Sandra Mendez Fajardo – Skat Foundation, Switzerland

• The challenges of value chain dynamics to meet the ideals of a circular economy by recovering material from households in Lower and Middle-Income countries. A case study from Accra, Ghana.
  Presenter: Kwabena Poku – University of Central Lancashire, UK

• Urban Mine ReWIR – Deconstruction-Reconstruction-Construction of Resources and Competences as metabolic relationship for transforming value chains
  Presenter: Elisabeth Clausen – RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Mining and Sustainability (2G)

PRESENTATIONS

• Sourcing Responsible Gold: Spatial Data Science for Systematic ESG Assessment of Gold Mines   Presenter: Patrick Laube – Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland

• The African Mining Vision and the AfricaMaVal Programme: Views on policy alignment to encourage the recycling of mineral waste
  Presenter: Herman Cornelissen – DMT Kai Batla, South Africa

• Non-metallic mineral-based value creation in Mauritania and Senegal – impacts of local capacity building
  Presenter: Wibke Crewett – German Institute for Geoscience ans Natural Resources (BGR), Germany

• Soaring of global copper demand urges cohesive emission mitigation strategies from both demand and supply sides. Presenter: Shuangmei Li – Central South University, Changsha, China

• “Seeing is believing”: (Dis)Trust and value control in Peru’s artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM)
  Presenter: Alejandra Villanueva Ubillús – KU Leuven, Belgium & Center for Mining and Sustainability Studies (CEMS), Universidad del Pacífico, Peru

• A systematic literature review of strategic and operational ESG challenges in sustainability reporting of the mining industry through the lens of stakeholder theory. Presenter: Francesco Ghezzi – Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy

Planetary boundaries & the energy, climate change and materials nexus (2H)

PRESENTATIONS

• Measuring the Doughnut: Is a good life for all possible within planetary boundaries?
  Presenter: Hauke Schlesier – Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

• Reducing chemical exposure and staying within global boundaries by sustainable and reduced consumption – A win-win argument for sufficiency
  Presenter: Roland Weber – POPs Environmental Consulting, Germany

• Achieving sustainability in buildings: an interdisciplinary approach to the selection and use of building materials
  Presenter: Eleonora Crenna – Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

• Material Consumption and Climate Change – The Case of Switzerland
  Presenter: Heinz Böni – Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

• Mobilising materials for the energy transition
  Presenter: Harald Desing – Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

Sustainable value chains (2I)

PRESENTATIONS

• Maturity management on resources efficiency in small and medium enterprises: a Life cycle approach
  Presenter: Daiane Silva – Sustainability Engineering Research Group, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil

• Sustainability and circularity in the textile value chain, A global roadmap – UNEP key priorities and recommendations for the sector Presenter: Minori Lee– UNEP, France

• Visions and perspectives on climate change in mining companies in Latin America
  Presenter: Sandra Carrillo – Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

• You are the People You Surround Yourself With: The Journey of Sustainability Reporting and Supply Chain Readiness.              Presenter: Jamie Wallisch – Assent Compliance Inc, Washington, D.C., USA

• Knowledge Synthesis of the Mine Life Cycle and Mining Value Chain to Address Climate Change
  Presenter: Qian Zhang – Queen’s University, Canada

• EU Project CIRCULAR FOAM “Transforming the Value Chain of Rigid Polyurethane Foams”
  Presenter: Angee Fehling – DECHEMA e.V., Germany

• Designing digitally enabled collaborative business models for a plastic circular economy in the UK
  Presenter: Adeyemi Adelekan – Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK

• Embedding Responsible Sourcing in Regional Integration and a Regional Value Chain Framework of Critical Minerals from Southern Africa
  Presenter: Farai Shone Mutondoro – Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association

E-waste management in Africa (2J)

PRESENTATIONS

• Sustainable e-waste manual dismantling, through the operation of the Technical Training Centre (TTC) in Ghana
  Presenter: Prosper Dorfiah – Mountain Research Institute, Ghana

• Investigating sustainable options for end-of-life lithium-ion batteries in the South African context
  Presenter: Thokozani Jr Mzileni – University of Johannesburg & Empa, Switzerland

• Material flow analysis of the recycling of lithium-ion batteries in South Africa: collection, processing, and product distribution
  Presenter: Dominic Vooght – Stellenbosch University, South Africa

• Separation and characterization of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) containing plastics from electronic waste (e-waste) and assessment of disposal options for BFR plastics
  Presenter: Gladys Adjei – Ghana Atomic Energy Commission

• Reverse logistics network optimisation for the recycling of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries in South Africa Presenter: Dominic Vooght – Stellenbosch University, South Africa

• Elaboration of an Integrated E-Waste Management Scheme for Ghana
  Presenter: Larry Kotoe – Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana

Electronics and sustainability (3A)

PRESENTATIONS

• The Sustainable Transformation of Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities for Laparoscopic Devices
  Presenter: Tamara Hoveling – Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

• The need for design-for-recycling of paper-based printed electronics – a prospective comparison with printed circuit boards
  Presenter: Akshat Sudheshwar – Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

• Insufficient supply of cross-cutting materials for batteries applications and rare earth permanent magnets – The neglected serious risk to the car
  Presenter: Anahita Jannesar Niri – Lulea University of Technology, Sweden

• Challenges of evaluating environmental sustainability of digital health devices: a systematic review
  Presenter: Naomi Muindi – Ghent University, Belgium

• Circularity potentials for different lithium salts as electrolyte in Li-Ion batteries
  Presenter: Martina Serra – Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

Critical and strategic raw materials I (3B)

PRESENTATIONS

• Urban symbiosis concepts for sustainable circular loops of CRMs containing products
  Presenter: Mona Arnold – VTT Technical Research Centre Finland

• Circular Economy, Critical Minerals and Deep Seabed Mining
  Presenter: Jessica Battle – WWF, Switzerland

• Critical Raw Materials and Value Chain Risks: Implications for Sustainable Development
  Presenter: Harikrishnan Tulsidas – UNECE, Switzerland

• Considering the role of responsible sourcing certifications in battery mineral value chains
  Presenter: Damien Giurco – University of Technology Sydney, Australia

• The Biorecover Project: Re-mining biotechnologies to create novel critical raw material value chains
  Presenter: Sam Whittlesey – LGI Sustainable Innovation, France

• Assessing the sustainability of supply and use of the technology metals antimony, bismuth, cadmium, germanium, gallium, indium, selenium and tellurium
  Presenter: Harald Ulrik Sverdrup – Inland Norway University

Responsible sourcing & innovation (3C)

PRESENTATIONS

• Advancing the sufficiency paradigm with digital product passports
  Presenters: Marta Santos Silva – Research Centre for Justice and Governance, Portugal / Maastricht European Private Law Institute / Centre for European Law and Politics, Germany

• Rethinking due diligence: the need to incorporate bottom-up processes into responsible sourcing programs
  Presenter: Andy Symington – KPMG Banarra, Sydney & UNSW Sydney, Australia

• What drives companies to source responsibly? An investigation of renewable energy manufacturers’ motivations for responsible sourcing
  Presenter: Marie-Theres Kügerl – Chair for Mining Engineering and Mineral Economics, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria

• Digitalisation in the mobility system: challenges and opportunities
  Presenter: Tommaso Selleri – European Environment Agency, Denmark

• UNEP Eco-innovation supplement for electronics – Business models, circularity and learnings from SMEs in developing countries
  Presenter: Robert Reinhardt – UNEP, Germany

• Community Experiences with Mining – Induced Compensation and Resettlement in the Adansi Districts of Ghana Presenter: Robert Tanti Ali – Center for Social Impact Studies, Ghana

Sufficiency perspectives (3D)

PRESENTATIONS

• The need for investigating the potential rebound effects of sufficiency-oriented Product/Service-Systems
  Presenter: Elise Andrew – Technical University of Denmark

• Having enough versus wanting more: a case for sufficiency experienced in society?
  Presenter: Damaris Castro – Ghent University, Belgium

• Quantification of sufficiency potentials
  Presenter: Frauke Wiese – Europa-Universität, Germany

• A Conceptual Interdisciplinary Multilevel System Perspective on Sufficiency: Product User Implications from Living With Less and Goals for the Transition
  Presenter: Sahra Svensson-Hoglund – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

• Sufficiency and sustainable peace in a viable world
  Presenter: Jürgen Scheffran – University of Hamburg, Germany

• Conceptualizations of Discourses on Circular Economy’s Social Impacts in the Global North versus Global South: a Critical Review of Similarities and Differences Presenter:   Ilaha Abasli – International Institute for Social Studies, Hague, Netherlands

Critical and strategic raw materials II (3E)

PRESENTATIONS

• Lithium from geothermal brines – More sustainable than from conventional sources?
  Presenter: Vanessa Schenker – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH)

• Environmental risks and economic potential of mining legacies – Experiences of the German technical cooperation in the Andean region
  Presenter: Jacob Mai – Federal Institute for Geoscience and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany

• A Collaborative Approach to Sustainable Mining Governance in the Andes: Insights from BGR’s MinSus Project
  Presenter: Achim Constantin – Federal Institute for Geoscience and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany

• Developing and using an environmental hazard radar for minerals and metals supply chains – synopsis and review of the OekoRess project trilogy
  Presenter: Jan Kosmol – German Environment Agency (UBA)

• Sustainable raw material supply for radiopharmaceutical cancer treatment by extraction of Ra-226 from phosphogypsum
  Presenter: Michael Haschke – DMT Group, Germany

• Learnings from building up a national virtual circular economy observatory to fast-track cross-stakeholder adoption of more circular value chain configurations at scale. Presenter: Peter Hopkinson & Markus Zils – University of Exeter, UK

Natural resources, financial flows, taxation & traceability (3F)

PRESENTATIONS

• Curbing Illicit Financial Flow Risks in Ghana’s Crude Oil Sales: Legal and Other Policy Options.
  Presenter: Jennifer Hall – Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (r4d programme), Switzerland & University of Ghana

• Measuring trade mis-pricing in Ghana’s International Commodity Trade: a case of Bauxite and Manganese
  Presenter: Angela Alu – University of Ghana

• Curbing illicit financial flow (IFFS) from resource-rich developing countries: improving resource governance to finance the SDGs (SDC and SNSF): Mapping of illicit financial flow in artisanal and small-scale mining sector (AGSM) in Ghana.
  Presenter: Abigail Tetteh Yankey – Ghana

• Measuring Illicit Financial Flows: New Data and Methods
  Presenter: Gilles Carbonnier – Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland

• Digital Product Passports for universal access to circularity and sustainability information
  Presenter: Deborah Leone – SUPSI DTI, Switzerland

• Development of a Methodology for a BIM-Based Decision Support Tool in Early Planning Phases in the Framework of a Material Passport for Buildings
  Presenter: Fenja Kamps – EPEA – Part of Drees & Sommer and TH Köln, Germany

• Circular Economy Resource Information System (CE-RISE)
  Presenter: Golnoush Abbasi – NILU, Norway

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