Calculating Germany’s Raw Material Foot-print – Method and Results
ifeu paper 01/2023
Authors: Birte Ewers, Monika Dittrich, Karl Schoer
We calculated central indicators for raw material use, such as Raw Material Input (RMI) and Raw Material Consumption (RMC), as well as the trade flows calculated in raw material equivalents (IMPRME and EXPRME) for the Resources Report of the German Environment Agency (Lutter et al. 2022).