Lecture title：Managing material flows and stocks to decarbonize material cycles

Time: 16:00-17:30, December 6 (Thursday)

Tencent conference: 545733717

Reporter: Researcher Cao Zhi, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Introduction to the keynote speaker:

Cao Zhi, the chief researcher and doctoral advisor of Antwerp University in Belgium, graduated from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with a doctor's degree. He has been engaged in research and teaching in the fields of industrial emission reduction, industrial ecology, resource metabolism analysis and full life cycle analysis at Northwestern University in the United States and the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark. He has presided over and participated in the Belgium Special Research Fund, China Belgium cooperation research projects, strategic leadership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences As the editor of SCI journals in sustainable fields such as Resources, Conservation&Recycling, Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, he was selected into the committee of low-carbon cement standards of the Climate Bonds Initiative for scientific research projects such as the European Union Horizon and the US Department of Energy Fund. Specific research issues and cases cover many fields, such as the assessment of the recycling and emission reduction potential of global bulk materials, the assessment of resource metabolism and sustainability of built environment and transportation infrastructure. He has published more than 30 papers in Nature Sustainability, Nature Communications, Environmental Science&Technology and other journals, and the relevant research results have been quoted at large length by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other journals.

Introduction to the report:

Material stock plays a pivotal role in shaping patterns of resource use and environmental impacts associated with the life cycle of materials, because stocks of materials accumulating in our society link service provision to flows of materials and energy. Managing booming resource use and CO2 emissions associated with the life cycle of cement and concrete has become a global challenge, thus calling for a systemic understanding of the material basis that sustains human well-being.

(Undertaken by: Department of Technology, Economics and Management, Digital Economy Innovation Research Center of Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, Scientific Research and Academic Exchange Center)