Today I am very pleased to share a two-part episode on exploring the current and future resource use and climate impact of mobility. In fact, mobility is responsible for a large part of CO2 emissions, energy use and material use both for the construction of vehicles and for its associated infrastructures.

This two part episode is a collaboration with the Urban Mobility Explained (UMX), a YouTube channel powered by EIT Urban Mobility (https://www.youtube.com/@urbanmobilityexplained). You can check out their channel and some of their videos as every week they cover quite broadly environmental and social impacts of mobility and solutions from cities around Europe. 

To explore the resource use impacts of mobility I am glad to welcome Karel Van Acker. Karel is professor in sustainable materials management @KU Leuven. His research develops strategies to realize the circular economy and on sustainability assessments of material life cycles.

On PART 1 Karel and Aristide laid the groundwork for the main cornerstone of clean mobility (i.e. metals), this PART 2 moves from the materials level to the applications level. This episode focuses on the topic of Circular Economy and how it can specifically be applied in the domain of mobility in Flanders, both theoretically and in practice. 

=== Summary ===

00:00 Introduction

03:03 The rules of Circular Economy 

10:24 Circularity analysis in Flanders

11:55 The CMUR Indicator

16:32 Multi-level indicators

19:58 Circularity analysis in Flanders (continued)

22:59 Circular mobility

36:53 The 4 scenarios

38:44 Car sharing

42:23 Digitalization of circular economy?

53:53 Reading advice

=== Links & References ===

- Circular economy in Flanders: https://cemonitor.be/en/circular-economy-in-mobility/

- The Materials 2030 roadmap: https://www.ami2030.eu/roadmap/

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