In the media
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What's better for the environment, cotton or polyester clothing? 08 April 2024
What clothing is best to buy if you want to consider the environment? That question isn't so easy to answer. You have to consider the entire life cycl...
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Ditching meat could release vital land to produce energy and remove carbon from the atmosphere 29 February 2024
A radical reduction in the amount of meat, dairy and other products sourced from animals is possible in the coming decades, as people turn to an incre...
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Urban green infrastructure: making future cities more sustainable 07 August 2023
Urban green infrastructure has the ability to make make cities more sustainable. However, the exact implementation of green infrastructure and the cho...
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The urban mine is full of resources, but a circular economy is still too ambitious 31 January 2023
Reuse everything and stop producing waste. By 2050, the Netherlands should have a circular economy. However, the new Integral Circular Economy Report ...
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Importing goods from sustainable countries could lower EU’s environmental footprint 28 November 2019
A recent study in Ecological Economics, led by Leiden environmental scientist Bertram de Boer, states that the European Union could lower its environm...
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UN calls for urgent rethink as resource use skyrockets 21 March 2019
The International Resource Panel of the United Nations Environment Programme, with CML researcher Ester van der Voet as member, has prepared a report ...
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Was the EU’s ban on electric fishing the right decision? 18 February 2019
Last week, on 13 February 2019, the EU approved the ban on pulse trawling. This followed the vote for a ban by the European Parliament on 16 January 2...
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Media on sustainable energy space uptake 31 August 2018
The production of sustainable energy can take up to 1000 times more space than fossil fuels, environmental researcher Paul Behrens concludes in a publ...
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René Kleijn about low-carbon energy 16 February 2018
How will we generate energy without further contributing to global warming? Industrial ecologist René Kleijn tells about low-carbon energy in tv and r...
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Media on environmental impact of food research by Paul Behrens 07 December 2017
The environment also benefits when people follow national nutritional guidelines, Paul Behrens demonstrated in research published in PNAS. The publica...
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Radio interview with Rene Kleijn about Urban Mining and Plastic Recycling 07 November 2017
Recycling of post consumer plastic waste is problematic in that the environmental benefits are questionable and the costs are significant. It would be...
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Paul Behrens in international media with warning climate change 27 July 2017
Environmental researcher Paul Behrens generated both international as national media attention with his recent publication in Nature Energy. The media...
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Reuse and recycling of mobile phones 13 March 2017
Industrial Ecologist Rene Kleijn has been in the consumer watchdog TV show Radar which has been broadcasted Monday 27th of February at 20:30 (NPO 1). ...
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Interview Mare: Microplastics are everywhere, we don't know yet if that does no harm 30 January 2017
Microplastics are small pieces of plastic found in the environment. At CML research have been conducted in the distribution of these plastics on beach...
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EU-FP7 project IDREEM featured on Euronews TV 07 July 2016
IDREEM (Increasing Industrial Resource Efficiency in European Mariculture) is a European research project launched in 2012 to protect the long-term su...