FINEPRINT Special Session and Best Poster Award at WRF 2021

This year’s World Resources Forum, entitled “A green deal for sustainable resources”, took place in Switzerland, Ghana and Online from October 12-14.

The FINEPRINT project organised a special scientific session, consisting of five presentations plus two posters that cover the various research areas related to the use of mineral and biomass resources: global environmental impacts and socio-economic consequences of resource extraction as well tracing of commodities and related impacts along global supply chains.

Watch our FINEPRINT session on YouTube: youtu.be/MlDn16CrdiE.

Best Poster Award won by Stefan Trsek

We are happy to announce the FINEPRINT team member Stefan Trsek has received the “Best Poster Award” for his contribution on developing fine-scale methods for land use footprinting.

Download the award-winning poster here: Mapping the land use footprint of Brazilian soy embodied in international trade

Other FINEPRINT presentations and posters

Stefan Giljum: FINEPRINT: tracing environmental impacts of resource extraction along global supply chains

Victor Maus: Earth observation to improve global mining information for sustainable development

Sebastian Luckeneder: Using geospatial data for assessing metal mining risks and impacts

Stephan Lutter: Estimating water input in the mining industry in Brazil: a methodological proposal in a data-scarce context

Hanspeter Wieland: Using a global physical input-output laboratory for spatially explicit environmental impact assessments of metal supply chains

Simon Jasansky (poster): An open dataset on global mining