Providing an economy-wide monitoring framework for the circular economy in Austria: Status quo and challenges

摘要: Abstract The circular economy (CE) concept is gaining momentum among industry, politics and academia, putting forward a number of claims about environmental climate-related benefits. Recently, the European Union has enacted policy package calling for transition from linear- towards production cycles across its Member States by 2050. majority research so far focused on micro- meso-level, investigating CE implications product- firm-level. On national level however, monitoring framework yet to be developed. To take up this challenging task, we develop apply an economy-wide case Austria, substantially extending previous work linking official data material flow accounting (ew-MFA), with waste emission statistics. Herein, present results our circularity assessment year 2014. We find, that Austria exhibits 8.5% share secondary raw materials in processed (Input socioeconomic cycling rate - ISCr), while recycled interim outputs (IntOut)) at 16.8% (Output OSCr). Challenges robustness those estimates may grounded gaps availability reporting both input output side, which need harmonized achieving effective, combined monitoring. Furthermore, find there strong nexus between energy use subsequently could contribute climate change mitigation.