Circular Economy andDigital WorldProf. (Anthony) Shun Fung Chiu
University Fellow, De La Salle University
拉萨大学 院士 讲座教授MOST Honorary Chair Professor, Asia University周纯峰 院士Member, UN International Resource Panel联合国 国际资源专家委员会 专家委员科技部 亚大荣誉讲座教授

INTERNATIONAL POLICY NEEDS A SCIENCE BASE
The international resource panel
was created in 2007 as a sciencepolicy interface in responding toeconomic growth, escalating use
of natural resources anddeteriorating environment andclimate change.

Climate Change
Biodiversity Loss

Hazardous Substances

IPCCIPBES

Assessments underthe Basel Convention

Ozone Depletion

Montreal Protocol’s
Scientific Assessments

Resource Efficiency

International
Resource Panel IRP

SDGs DIRECTLY DEPENDENT ON NATURALRESOURCESIt looks as if CE diagram is our final destination……. It’s only a means …..

Sustainable Development is the main goal
while Decoupling is the framework behind SDGs
At this point of time ….. DPSIR

(N AT U R E | VO L 5 6 5 | 1 0 JA N UA RY 2 0 1 9)

Globalize the Circular Economy

THE NEW UNEP IRP MATERIAL FLOW ANDRESOURCE PRODUCTIVITY DATA SET•A coherent account of material use in the global economy
and for every nation, complementary to the System ofNational Accounts•A large data set covering 40 years (1970–2010) and mostcountries of the world.
•Presents direct and consumption-based material flow
indicators, covering total usage, per capita use and material
use per US$.
•Information should help identify opportunities, risks andvulnerabilities related to the global supply of primarymaterials and show the potential for efficiency gains andreductions in material use in the global economy

GLOBAL MATERIAL FLOWS ANDRESOURCE PRODUCTIVITY (1970-2010)•Consumption has been stronger driver of growth in material use that
population growth•Since 2000 material efficiency has declined - global economy needs morematerials per unit of GDP. Production has shifted from material efficientcountries to countries that have lower material efficiency•The richest countries consume on average 10 times more materials as
the poorest•The level of well-being achieved in wealthy industrial countries
cannot be generalised globally based on the same system ofproduction and consumptionGLOBAL MATERIAL USE HAS ACCELERATED• Annual global extraction of materials grew from 22 billion tonnes in1970 to around 70 billion tonnes in 2010 and 90+BT in 2017
• Non-metallic minerals used in construction was the fastest growing
group of materials

Global material extraction (DE) by four material categories, 1970–2010-2017, million tonnes

MATERIAL EXTRACTION GREW UNEVENLY IN THE
GLOBAL ECONOMY• Asia and the Pacific had the largest growth, especially China andSoutheast Asia
• Growth in Asia and the Pacific reverberated in Latin America andAfrica who supplied materials to Asia

Figure 2. Domestic extraction (DE) by seven subregions, 1970–2010, million tonnes

CONSUMPTION PATTERN & TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONCOMBINED ARE DRIVING GLOBAL MATERIAL USE• Partly Circular Economy using eco-industrial development(EID) has been solving the resource consumption by producer
effectively in 2000-2015. The technological innovation
driving more consumption will be tackled in the 2015-2030.

Figure 5. Drivers of net change in domestic material consumption between 2000 and 2010 for world regions: population,affluence, and material intensity

SCP Push-Pull Scenario

SUPPLYDEMAND

Eco-design
Green Procurement
Circular EconomyRECPLCATechnology ProgressPolicy Options

LifestyleMarketing ads‘Mesolimbic
Dopaminergic
RewardSystem’
Human needs
Human wants
Human desires

Innovative Technology“… every aspect of our lives is increasingly influenced by an invisible networkof technologies and devices that collect, transmit, and analyse
incomprehensibly large amounts of information ….. “
1.
2.
3.
4.

Internet of Things (IoT)
Blockchain
Big Data
Artificial Intelligenceeffective and cheaper extremely fastSmart Meters

Singapore’s Jurong
Lake District• Aims to demonstrate howtechnology can enable aliveableandsustainableurban environment, and a key
feature is IoT technology….
But ….. Wifi bandwidth,stability, etc necessity• Data from farecards andsensors
throughout
thedistrict will give planners aclearer sense of the location,
types, and frequency oftransport services that areneeded and cater to theseneeds more effectively.

IoT Example 2: Manila Electric Co. (Meralco)

Applications of Blockchain:
Peer to peer clean energy sharing••

Australian firm Power Ledger
commenced a trial in
Bangkok’s Sukhumvit
neighbourhood where anapartment complex, a school,a mall, and a dental hospitalwith solar panels trade clean
energy with one another, andthe city’s electricity grid, overa blockchain marketplace.
the system is one of theworld’s largest peer to peer
renewable energy trading
platforms using blockchain.

Innovative Technology

2. Blockchain
ProvenanceApplications of Blockchain: Carbon Footprinting

Big Data Applications
1. Human travel patterns andmalaria- In Kenya, Caroline
Buckee, a Harvard
University researcher
processed data from 15
million cell phones in 2012
to identify how humantravel patterns contributed
to the spread of malaria—
this helped officials
allocate resources todisease control efforts.

(A) Travel sources and sinks. (B) Parasite sources and sinks.

Global Fishing Watch - launched in 2016, the platform processes over 22 million
position messages from more than 200,000 ships ever day to detect patterns thatsignify which vessels are fishing, when and where. This allows anyone with an internet
connection to see fishing activity anywhere in the ocean in near real-time, for free.

Innovative Technology

4. Artificial Intelligence
The Climate Corporation’s Climate Fieldview software

Thank you for listening!
Anthony SF Chiu
University Fellow, Professor, and Research Fellow
JM Reyes Professorial Chair of Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
De La Salle University, Manila City
Member, Pollution Adjudication Board, DENR (2004-2016)
Republic of the Philippines
Member, United Nations International Resource Panel

5 March 2019

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