Call for abstracts for the 13th Conference of the Socio-Economic Metabolism Section (SEM) of the International Society for #industrialecology (ISIE). 13 - 15 May 2019, #Berlin, Germany Call for abstracts is open until January 20, 2019. isiesem2019.org Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK

Comment: “In our view, there’s a good chance that we could breach the 1.5 C level by 2030, not by 2040 as projected in the special report,” warn David Victor and colleagues. go.nature.com/2AZJYhZ

The historical house of Harnack will host the next ISIE-SEM Conference from May 13th to 15th, organized by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK, in #Berlin. We are looking forward ! Program here : isiesem2019.org (Attendee registration still open) #industrialecology #urbanmetabolism @ISIEYale

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New Paper 📄 & thread 🧵! How big are the digital exports of the U.S. compared to Europe? Today, trade flows not only through container ports, but through routers. In this new Nature Communications paper, we introduce a method to estimate trade in digital products by combining machine

The world is facing a sand crisis. Despite being one of the most abundant natural resources, sand is rapidly depleting. Our recent study in Nature Geoscience reports significant changes in China’s sand consumption, shifting from natural to manufactured sand. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Brief Communication: The increasing use of manufactured sand in China since 2010 has greatly reduced the proportion of natural sand in the total sand supply, from 80% in 1995 to 21% in 2020 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Our new paper in NatureClimate! “Cost-effectiveness of natural forest regeneration and plantations for climate mitigation” nature.com/articles/s4155… We've mapped abatement cost ($/tCO2) for two common reforestation methods across 138 low- and middle-income countries...(thread)

[New Paper] Can economic complexity help us understand how countries move towards their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? In a new paper, led by Fengmei Ma and Heming Wang (Heming Wang), from CCL, we explore how countries make progress towards SDGs. Instead of looking at