Conference

Four members of the Waterloo Industrial Ecology Group (WIEG) returned in good cheer from the International Roundtable on Raw Material Criticality (IRTC) Conference 2023, “Raw Materials for a Sustainable Future”, held 15-17 February 2023 in Lille, France. This was the first in-person scholarly conference for SUSM Masters student Jamie Faubert and for SUSM PhD student Ankesh Siddhantakar – and the first since the pandemic for Professors Komal Habib and Steven Young.

The International Conference on Resource Sustainability (icRS), sponsored by Resources, Conservation & Recycling journal, is a worldwide forum in which the latest research and practice in resource sustainability are shared, discussed and promoted.

The International Conference on EcoBalance, organized by the Institute of Life Cycle Assessment, Japan (ILCAJ), has been held in Japan since 1994 as a biennial conference. Setting life cycle thinking as its core concept, EcoBalance is recognized as one of the world's premier conferences for academic, industry, and government professionals. EcoBalance serves as a forum for discussions on environmental performance evaluation, information disclosure regarding evaluation results, and for the development and implementation of discussed methods.

Join the panel as they discuss our demand for new technologies, and the natural resources we need to create them. The event will cover the practicalities of finding the raw materials the world relies on, and whether mining can really be sustainable.

Moderated by Iain Stewart (Professor of Geoscience Communication, University of Plymouth) and Steven B. Young (Associate Professor, WIEG, SEED).

Hosted by the Natural History Museum London.

World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF)

European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Raw Materials Summit

Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) FREE VIRTUAL Corporate Responsibility Summit

Professors Komal Habib and Steven B. Young are at the 2019 European Raw Materials Week. The event builds on a series of events organised by the European Commission addressing the latest news on raw materials in the EU, including discussions on relevant issues of policy, technology, international cooperation, and the like. Critical raw materials and circular economy discussions are central.

World Circular Economy Forum

GLOBE 2020