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The Roads Towards Raw Materials Sustainability: a French Case Study

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  • Arthur Boutiab

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Circular Economy (CE) has become increasingly influential in policy-making for the past fifteen years. Governments and institutions have seen CE as a way to achieve high levels of sustainability while maintaining GDP growth. This paper describes how waste generation and Raw materials use were modeled in the Environmentally-Extended Input-Output tables of the Eurogreen model. It also explains how Material Flow Analysis (MFA) was used to model Residual Waste Management, Closing Supply-Chains, Waste Efficiency and Material Efficiency. Through the design of several policy scenarios (Business-As-Usual, Techno-Efficiency, Cradle-to-Cradle, Circular Growth, Optimistic Circular Growth and Circular Degrowth), this paper also assesses the efficacy of different Circular Economy policies in delivering a decrease in Raw Materials Extraction and in CO2 emissions in France from 2014 to 2050.

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  • Arthur Boutiab, 2024. "The Roads Towards Raw Materials Sustainability: a French Case Study," SEEDS Working Papers 0124, SEEDS, Sustainability Environmental Economics and Dynamics Studies, revised Jan 2024.
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