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Material stocks: Destination and source of raw materials

• Why material stocks matter
• How to quantify material stocks
• Global material stocks
• How stocks are hindering sustainable material use

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Material use and quality of life

• Relating material footprints, happiness and human development
• Material intensity of well-being

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The role of coal in the global economy – a “Raw Material Profile”

• Global trends of coal extraction
• International coal trade
• Global fossil fuel consumption
• Impacts of coal along its life cycle

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Material use in Indonesia – compiling a Country Profile

• Country characteristics and economic development
• Domestic material extraction and trade
• Material consumption and productivity
• Environmental implications and social consequences of material extraction

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Goals for a sustainable material use

• The role of material use in the SDGs
• Comparing countries’ DMC per capita
• Applying the RMC indicator to correct for international trade effects

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Global trends of material use

• Types of raw materials​
• The geographical distributions of material extraction​

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Decoupling material use and economic performance

• What is decoupling and why is it important
• How is decoupling measured
• Decoupling around the World?​

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The concept of material consumption

• Accounting for material consumption
• The big gap between DMC and RMC
• A regional perspective on material consumption

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Circular Economy: a smart way of using materials

• The idea behind circular economy
• Building blocks of circular economy
• Circularity today

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