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SEM section perpetual online conference session 18: Scenario Modelling for Transport, the Vehicle Fleet, and Materials

The transportation sector enables the mobility of people and the trade of goods, which drives economic development. However, it also accounts for a quarter of carbon dioxide emissions and almost 30% of all energy consumption globally. Besides, veh...
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Pathways to Steer India’s Buildings Sector Towards a Net-Zero Future

posting this on behalf of Kaveri Ashok, CSTEP, Bengaluru, India: In the face of the global imperative to limit the rise in temperatures to 1.5 °C (above pre-industrial level), as outlined in the Paris Agreement, nations have been striving to ...
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Revived and revised SEM section homepage on the ISIE website

With more than 500 members, the Socio-Economic Metabolism (SEM) Section supports and promotes research on human energy and material use and its link to economic performance, social outcomes, and environmental impacts. Our section members’ re...
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Call for Abstracts: 19th Society and Materials Conference (SAM-19), May 6-7 2025, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

05 Dec 2024
Dear colleagues, The call for abstracts for the 19th Society and Materials conference (SAM19) is now open! Registration is also possible already now (and is only 100€ including our SAM Gala Dinner!). More details on the venue and registr...
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Symposium on Transitioning to a Net-Zero Chemicals and Materials Industry

We are organizing a symposium on Transitioning to a Net-Zero Chemicals and Materials Industry from February 19-21, 2025, at Arizona State University, Tempe campus.  It will bring together leading researchers, practitioners and other stake...
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Last Chance to take Advantage of Tom Graedel's Matching Gift Offer

29 Nov 2024
December 2024 is the last month for ISIE members to take advantage of Tom Graedel's matching gift offer made at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in April. We hope that you will consider a donation to the ISIE before the end of the year to take adv...
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IE Day 2024 Highlights

29 Nov 2024
    We are thrilled to announce that this year’s IE Day was a real success, thanks to the incredible involvement of our community. With 21 outstanding sessions and 42 student posters, the event showcased the power of industrial e...
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Announcing the Bob Ayres Award

22 Nov 2024
The Bob Ayres Award for Major Scientific Contributions in the Field of Industrial Ecology We are thrilled to introduce the Bob Ayres Award, recognizing the most impactful work published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology (JIE). This award cele...
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Invitation to session “Sustainable Urban Systems, the IPCC, and low-carbon cities (UTC 14:30 - 15:30)" IE Day 2024 (Nov 21)

Dear all, The IPCC's forthcoming Seventh Assessment Report cycle is relevant to sustainable urban systems. The SUS section is hosting an online session from UTC 14:30-15:30 about how the interests of the SUS section and potential synergies with t...
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Digital Economy and the Environment Lecture Series: A perspective on data and digital systems integration for circular economy assessment

07 Nov 2024
As part of the ongoing lecture series on the Digital Economy and the Environment, organized by ISIE members at the Center for Industrial Ecology in the Yale School of the Environment, Franco Donati, a leader in the application of artificial intell...
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Call for contributions to build a benchmark Q&A dataset for evaluating LLM performance in environment and sustainability

06 Nov 2024
Large Language Models (LLMs) are developing so fast. There are also many prospective applications in the environment and sustainability fields. However, there lacks a standard benchmark to test various LLMs and LLM applications for their performan...
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Abstract call for American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting (draft submission by November 14, 2024)

  The next American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting will be March 2025 in Detroit. The Urban Systems subsection of ISIE is organizing a paper session entitled, "Sustainable urban systems: concepts, models, and future out...
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