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NetZeroCities
NetZeroCities is helping 112 Mission cities overcome the current structural, institutional and cultural barriers they…
- Cities and Regions

Circular Innovation Collective
The Circular Innovation Collective aims to create a thriving innovation ecosystem that actively tackles the…
- Circular Economy

Nature Action Tracker: monitoring actions and outcomes for nature
Nature Action Tracker: monitoring actions and outcomes for nature How can we track what actions…
- Agrifood
Healthy soil, healthy food: Agrana’s new framework for sustainable fruit cultivation
Metabolic and reNature created for Agrana Fruit the first-ever holistic framework guiding regenerative farming practices…
- Agrifood
Nature-based Solutions Policy Tracker
Tracking Nature-based solutions in policies worldwide to enhance climate & nature action.
- Agrifood
Alpro’s Regenerative Agriculture Journey
Alpro’s Regenerative Agriculture Journey Supporting farmers in their transition to regenerative practices Alpro has long…
- Agrifood
SoTecIn Factory: New solutions for Europe’s seven industrial value chains
SoTecIn Factory: New solutions for Europe’s seven industrial value chains Driving industrial value chains’ circular…
- Ventures
Value at Risk in the Global Blue Economy
Value at Risk in the Global Blue Economy How a system dynamics model can measure…
- Finance
The Aquaponics Greenhouse at De Ceuvel
The aquaponics greenhouse promotes circular urban agriculture, educational outreach, and new technologies.
- Agrifood
Fresh: Building ventures for system change
A venture-building program and startup studio, Fresh Ventures is on a mission to transform the…
- Ventures
Nature-based Solutions Policy Tracker
An AI approach to tracking policy-making to enable NbS worldwide
- Agrifood
Determining ecological thresholds for dairy farming
Pilot for setting science-based targets for nature within a Dutch dairy landscape
- Agrifood
Sustainability strategy for PepsiCo
Assessing the impact of PepsiCo’s food and drink production on water, biodiversity, and land degradation…
- Circular Economy
Circular strategies for mitigating surging critical metal demand
Examining the critical metals needed for the renewable energy transition and identifying strategies to reduce…
- Products and Services
Building a circular strategy for Water Authority Rijnland
Identifying leverage points and potential measures for a circular water board, based on a data-driven…
- Water
Zero Plastic Waste Thailand
A guide for future strategic development among government and the private sector towards a more…
- Circular Economy
Dayrize
Creating a scoring system to compare products on the sustainable marketplace: Dayrize.com.
- Products and Services
Circular Electronics Landscape Assessment
Outlining system hotspots, barriers, opportunities, and interventions for a circular electronics industry.
- Circular Economy
Circular Cities Program Poland
Uncovering actionable insights and systemic strategies to drive the transition to a circular economy in…
- Cities and Regions
CENTRINNO: Heritage as a catalyst for a new industrial revolution
Developing solutions for sustainable urban regeneration of post-industrial districts in nine European cities.
- Cities and Regions
Circular Innovation Ecosystem
Identifying both barriers and opportunities for leveraging finance to achieve the circularity goals of the…
- Finance
Circular area development in the Achtersluispolder
Transforming an industrial site into a circular, energy-neutral, mixed-use neighborhood.
- Cities and Regions
New strategy for raw material management in the Southern Region of Denmark
Striving for sustainability across the entire value chain
- Cities and Regions
Mapping the flow of textiles in the Central Region of Denmark
Identifying public solutions for a more circular textiles system.
- Cities and Regions
Recycling Unpacked
Exploring the potential for a fully circular beverage packaging sector in the US: focusing on…
- Circular Economy
The alternative materials tool
Developed with WWF Singapore, a science-based software tool that guides businesses towards the most sustainable…
- Metrics & Tools
Towards a circular agri-food system in the Baltic
Analyzing nitrogen and phosphorus flows in the Baltic Sea catchment area to identify key opportunities…
- Agrifood
Improving purchasing procedures for circular IT
This guide for Rijkswaterstaat evaluated purchasing criteria for IT equipment, aiming to reduce environmental impacts…
- Technologies
Hychain: Analysis of hydrogen technologies for production
Improving the implementation of green hydrogen by evaluating supply chain technologies for industrial production and…
- Industries
A waste analysis of the Capital Region of Denmark
Mapping material flows and environmental impacts to identify hotspots and circular opportunities in the Danish…
- Cities and Regions
DLT4EU: Using blockchain technology for public good
Piloting a European ecosystem of distributed ledger technologies for social and public good.
- Metrics & Tools
Circular Boulder: Pioneering towards a zero waste and climate neutral city
Co-creating a vision and roadmap for circularity in collaboration with the U.S. city of Boulder.
- Cities and Regions
Assessing all materials consumed for building in the Netherlands
Mapping the Dutch construction sector with the goal to become 100% circular by 2050, analyzing…
- Cities and Regions
Systems modeling for measuring financial risks to ocean assets
Exploring sustainability pressures and financial risks to the Blue Economy with WWF, using a systems…
- Finance
One Planet Approaches: A guide to setting science-based targets
Produced with WWF, a quick reference guide for organizations beginning the journey towards setting science-based…
- Metrics & Tools
REFLOW: Designing circular resource flows in European cities
Creating a blueprint for the management of critical urban flows, fast-tracking the transition toward circular…
- Institute
FOODE: Creating sustainable food systems for European cities
Prototyping citizen-centered urban agrifood systems, to plant the seeds for the sustainable food solutions of…
- Institute
Critical metal demand for electric vehicle production
Analysis of critical metals demand for electric vehicles, and recommendations on how to make the…
- Energy
Ecological footprint of the Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency
Analyzing the ecological footprint of the Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency (DJI), to realize efficiency and…
- Metrics & Tools
EIT Climate-KIC: Food Value Chains Strategy
Helping Europe’s largest public-private climate innovation initiative tackle carbon emissions and climate resilience in the…
- Agrifood
Circular Dordrecht: Identifying circular business cases for the city
A material flow analysis of Dordrecht's construction and manufacturing sectors, to identify circular opportunities and…
- Cities and Regions
PlastiCity: Replicable models to increase plastic recycling
Working with partners to map waste flows and develop new value chains, to increase plastics…
- Cities and Regions
Strategies for smart integrated decentralised energy systems
Analyzing Smart Integrated Decentralised Energy (SIDE) systems to realize the renewable energy transition by increasing…
- Energy
Eindhoven Internationale Knoop XL: Circular area development
Creating a circular urban development plan for the Internationale Knoop XL district in the Dutch…
- Cities and Regions
Measuring climate-neutral and circular public procurement
In line with Dutch policy ambitions, Metabolic was commissioned by Rijkswaterstaat to map various instruments…
- Metrics & Tools
REPAiR: Geo-design tool for urban waste and resource management
A new geo-design tool - REPAiR reveals local, spatially specific challenges of waste and resource…
- Industries
Vitens: Circularity in drinking water production
Mapping the material flows and waste valorization strategies of Spannenburg - Vitens' biggest production facility…
- Water
Critical metal demand for the renewable energy transition
Analyzing the supply chain dynamics of wind turbines and solar panels to identify whether current…
- Energy
Alpro: Setting science-based targets for nature
This pilot project pioneered development of science-based targets for plant-based food and drink producer Alpro’s…
- Agrifood
Guidelines for achieving circularity in regional value chains
Developing a roadmap for building circular value chains across multiple regions in Europe, focusing on…
- Cities and Regions
Circular Charlotte: Becoming a zero waste and inclusive city
A circular vision and strategy to help North Carolina's City of Charlotte - the first…
- Cities and Regions
Analyzing the textile materials flows of Taiwan
A detailed analysis of Taiwan's textile flows, informing a holistic vision and progress roadmap for…
- Textiles
Circular DGTL festival: Analyzing waste, water, and energy flows
For a second year running Metabolic teamed up with DGTL to map the festival's material,…
- Cities and Regions
Circular Rotterdam: New jobs in a zero waste economy
A circular economy strategy for Rotterdam, informing the city's efforts to create 3,500 to 7,000…
- Cities and Regions
Monitoring circularity in the Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam
Developing a monitoring framework to track progress towards a circular economy in the Metropolitan Region…
- Cities and Regions
Circular North-Netherlands: A vision and roadmap for a circular economy
A vision and roadmap for transitioning to a circular economy in the provinces of Groningen,…
- Cities and Regions
Industrial symbiosis between the steel and chemicals industries
Assessing the implications of CO recycling for Europe, specifically with regards to reducing carbon emissions…
- Industries
Circular Vlieland: Sustainability on the Frisian Islands
Metabolic and partners analyzed the material, water, nutrients and energy resource flows of Vlieland island…
- Cities and Regions
City of Amsterdam: Circular building tendering for sustainable innovation
Metabolic and SGS Search have developed circular tendering procedures that are helping municipalities, developers and…
- Built environment
Circular tendering for new social housing projects
Metabolic and SGS Search developed a set of key performance indicators for housing through a…
- Built environment
Circular Amersfoort: Urban mining potential in the built environment
An analysis of material flows in Amersfoort, to help inform the municipality's goals to close…
- Built environment
Circular Amsterdam: Spatial analysis for effective city planning
Spatial analysis to examine how Amsterdam's circular economy goals and achievements can be strengthened by…
- Cities and Regions
DGTL Festival: Zero waste strategy
Helping DGTL festival to transition to becoming waste-free, and creating tools other festivals can adopt…
- Cities and Regions
A circular vision for Northeast Brabant’s food system
Working with the Dutch province of Northeast Brabant to explore dynamics within regional agriculture activities…
- Cities and Regions
Delfland Circulair
Metabolic advised the Delfland Water Board on the creation of a closed-loop system, to become…
- Cities and Regions
WWF: An Analysis of the Global Food System
Analysing the current state, behaviours and global trends, key impacts and challenges, and a holistic…
- Agrifood
WWF: One Planet Approaches
Evaluating models and methodologies for identifying key tipping points and translating global or regional boundaries…
- Industries
Circular Friesland
Metabolic is a strategic partner of the Province of Fryslân, with whom we work to…
- Cities and Regions
Prospecting the Urban Mines of Amsterdam
A method to assess the metal contents of residential buildings in Amsterdam, bringing the city…
- Built environment
Leveraging consumer behaviour to transform the food system
Identifying strategic ways to shift consumer behaviors in relation to the food system and beyond.
- Agrifood
WWF: Applying Systems Thinking to the European Food System
A guidebook applying systems thinking methods to address critical challenges facing the European food system.
- Agrifood
Smart Freight Centre: An Analysis of the Freight System
Metabolic worked with the Smart Freight Centre (SFC) to bring a systems-thinking perspective to their…
- Industries
Be Happy
Be Happy is a revolutionary housing concept designed to facilitate happiness and wellbeing, and help…
- Built environment
WWF: Living Planet Report 2016
Metabolic contributed a chapter to WWF's Living Planet Report, focused on understanding root causes, and…
- Agrifood
Schoonschip: A sustainable floating neighborhood
Metabolic developed the sustainability masterplan for a cutting-edge community of floating villas in Amsterdam North.
- Cities and Regions
Circular Buiksloterham
A vision, roadmap and action plan to transition Buiksloterham - a 100 hectare site in…
- Cities and Regions
Analyzing Supply Chain Impacts of Electronics
A comprehensive framework and approach to track materials and impacts through an electronic product’s supply…
- Industries
C&A: Circular Textiles
A circular economy strategy for C&A, one of Europe’s largest fashion retailers, helping them take…
- Circular Economy
- Textiles
De Ceuvel: A cleantech playground
De Ceuvel is Amsterdam's circular living lab: a ‘cleantech playground’ with a popular community cafe,…
- Cities and Regions
Mapping total resources consumed for the global economy
A Global Metabolism Flow analysis conducted in 2010 shows that we have extracted an estimated…
- Cities and Regions
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