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14 March, 2018 SINCERE partners attend Chatham House roundtableOn 8 December 2017, partners from the SINCERE project attended a high-level roundtable event at Chatham House on circular economy in Europe and China. The event was organised by the from Chatham House in collaboration with the SINCERE project. |
5 March, 2018 Final SINCERE conference proceedingsThe final SINCERE conference brought together leading experts on Chinese and European dynamics, long-term trends,
modelling perspectives and emerging eco-innovations. Recordings of the
conference presentations were produced by the European Institute for Economic Relations (EIIW) at the University of Wuppertal. |
21 February, 2018 Impact magazine interviews Raimund Bleischwitz
In a forthcoming interview, Raimund Bleischwitz discusses
the value of the SINCERE project and the importance of collaboration between
Chinese and European researchers. |
7 December, 2017 SINCERE hosts its final conference!
This is the final conference of the SINCERE-Project with presentations and discussions about main findings. China is a world-leading economy with strong footrprints in carbon and materials; yet it is also a pioneer on the circular economy and low-carbon economy efforts |
13 September, 2017 SINCERE publishes a new report on environmental footprints between China and the EUÂ
A new study, published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, finds that China's overall footprint is higher than the EU countries, but its per capital footprint is smaller than those in EU. |
8 August, 2017 SINCERE publishes a special issue on the circular economySINCERE's Paul J.J. Welfens, Raimund Bleischwitz and Yong Geng have co-edited a special issue of the journal International Economics and Economic Policy on ‘Resource efficiency, circular economy and sustainability dynamics in China and OECD countries’. |
 15-18 September, 2017 All-partner meeting in LondonUniversity College London will host the next SINCERE all-partner meeting in London on 15-18 September. Partners will present recent findings, and in particular discuss scenarios for a circular economy in China and Europe as well as early modelling results. The project will also invite a other scholars working on these issues to join the discussions. |
 18 May, 2017 When demand peaks: why China is unlikely to need more resourcesResource saturation levels for China indicate that appetite for materials is likely to flatten after physical infrastructures and basic industries have been set up, argues Raimund Bleischwitz in an article for the Hoffmann Centre for Sustainable Resource Economy. |
11 May, 2017 Economic growth continues to drive material use in Western Europe, according to new research from SINCERESINCERE's Paolo Agnolucci and Florian Flachenecker published ‘’ in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy. Their important study suggests that Western European economies have not yet managed to ‘decouple’ material use from economic growth, implying more ambitious efforts are needed to break the link between the two variables and make progress towards greater resource efficiency. |
4 May, 2017 New paper on the Circular Economy Policies in China and Europe
SINCERE researchers have published a paper that shows there are differences in the way in which the term is understood in China and Europe: the Chinese ‘version’ of a CE places greater emphasis on industrial pollution, whereas European discourse emphasises new business opportunities, arising from resource efficiency and waste recycling. |
24 April, 2017 UNU-MERIT host project workshopResearchers from China and Europe met in Maastricht on 24 April 2017 to discuss research related to the SINCERE project. The workshop was hosted by UNU-MERIT researchers Prof. René Kemp and Dr. Serdar Türkeli and participants included Yong Geng, Shanghai Beijia Huang, Raimund Bleischwitz and Paul Welfens. |
 13-14 Oct, 2016 Advances in the Modelling of Innovation and Finance in Macroeconomic ModelsExperts from several research projects met in Paris to discuss the Advances in the Modelling of Innovation and Finance in Macroeconomic Models. The meeting was attended by members of the GREEN-WIN, SINCERE, INNOPATHS, RIPPLES and CIRCLE research projects with the aim of understanding and sharing practical experiences and difficulties involved in implementing such innovation modelling. |
11-13 Oct, 2016 MINES ParisTech host SINCERE partners meetingMINES ParisTech hosted the second partners meeting on 11-13 October, 2016. SINCERE partners and advisory board members from Europe and China met in Paris to discuss progress and early results from the project.
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12-16 October, 2015 First Partners meeting
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 15-18 September, 2017 All-partner meeting in LondonUniversity College London will host the next SINCERE all-partner meeting in London on 15-18 September. Partners will present recent findings, and in particular discuss scenarios for a circular economy in China and Europe as well as early modelling results. The project will also invite a other scholars working on these issues to join the discussions. |