EXIOBASE: Database Development, Current Applications, and Future Directions
The Imperial Network of Excellence in Sustainability through Life Cycle Approaches will host Konstantin Stadler, who will deliver a talk on EXIOBASE.
Abstract:
EXIOBASE provides a global environmentally-extended multi-regional input-output (EE-MRIO) database with high suitability for environmental analysis, originally designed to address sustainability questions for the EU and its main trading partners as well as other major global economies. Beyond its extensive use in sustainability research, it also became the recommended source by the GHG Protocol for spend-based scope 1, 2, and 3 emission factors and is increasingly utilized for biodiversity impact assessments and ecosystem analysis in environmental research.
The database is compatible with the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) and includes high sectoral detail matched with multiple social and environmental satellite accounts that encompass emissions, materials, land use, and labor data across 200 commodities and 163 industries. As the outcome of three EU projects, EXIOBASE is currently maintained by the EXIOBASE consortium with XIO Sustainability Analytics providing regular updates to ensure data currency and reliability.
This presentation will give a short introduction to EE-MRIO modeling and cover the data usage and harmonization approaches used in EXIOBASE. We will then present forthcoming impact assessment method integrations with LC-IMPACT, PEF, and UNEP-GLAM based on the research outcomes of the European Horizon projects BAMBOO and RAINFOREST.
We conclude by covering the practical use of EXIOBASE in research, commercial and policy contexts, including decoupling analysis connected to planetary boundaries frameworks, open-source modules for EE-MRIO analysis, scope 1/2/3 spend-based GHG emission factors, and coupling approaches with official national input-output data.
Bio:
Konstantin Stadler is the manager and lead researcher of the Industrial Ecology Digital Laboratory at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering (EPT) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His research centers on understanding the environmental and social consequences of economic activities through advanced computational methods and database development.
He is one of the main developers of the Environmentally Extended Multi-Regional Input-Output Database (EE-MRIO) EXIOBASE since version 2, where he oversees data compilation and pipeline operations.
He also develops open source software for environmental assessment and is the main developer of Pymrio, a Python framework for EE-MRIO analysis.
He currently directs the activities in the European Horizon projects BAMBOO and RAINFOREST in regard to linking the environmental stressors/flows in EXIOBASE to the latest impacts assessment methods LC-IMPACT and UNEP-GLAM. Additionally, he leads HiTEA, a Norwegian Research Council-funded project focused on developing high-performance-computing based environmental assessment methods.
He co-founded and serves on the board of XIO-SA AS, which offers specialized emission and environmental impact assessment services and data based on EXIOBASE. He has a PhD in Neuroscience from the Charite Berlin/FU Berlin.
Information for attendance
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