News
30th of November 2016
STRADE publishes policy brief on voluntary initiatives, principles and criteria on environmental sustainability in mining
The STRADE team from Oeko published policy brief 07/2016 that reviews environmental principles and criteria in voluntary and legally non-binding initiatives with particular relevance for the ore mining sector.
31st of October 2016
STRADE publishes policy brief on socio-economic challenges
Oeko-Institut's STRADE team published another policy brief, no. 05/2016 (Outlining Socio - Economic Challenges in the Non - Fuel Mining Sector), addressing the socio-economic challenges related to the extraction process of mining.
30th of September 2016
STRADE publishes policy brief on environmental challenges
The STRADE team from Oeko-Institut published its first policy brief, no. 04/2016, reviewing environmental impacts and ecological challenges in raw material production.
Two new presentations of the Oeko-Institut about Rare Earth Elements issue now available
22nd of November 2011 by Stefanie Degreif
Our colleague Dr. Matthias Buchert talked at the conference “Wind Turbine Supply Chain & Logistics” in August about the interlinkage between wind energy growth and rare earths demand. You can download the highly interesting facts and scenarios of future resource requirements in the presentation “Rare Earths - a Bottleneck for future Wind Turbine Technologies?” here: http://www.resourcefever.org/publications/presentations/Wind%20Supply%20Chain%202011%20-%20Buchert_final.pdf
Further presentation “Application of rare earths in consumer electronics and challenges for recycling” was held by our colleague Ran Liu on the International Conference on Consumer Electronics in September which focused on rare earths relevance for consumer applications. Please find the very interesting presentation here: http://www.resourcefever.org/publications/presentations/ICCE_Ran%20Liu_08_September%202011.pdf