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title: How Circular Economy Modernises Industries
description: "As an independent institute, we have been bringing clarity to Austria’s climate discourse since January 2024."
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 # How Circular Economy Modernises Industries

Tuesday, 02.12.2025

Austria's resource-intensive and largely linear economic model leaves great potential untapped. The good news: we can strengthen the economy with circular economy.

A new [study](https://kontext-institut.at/uploads/Dateien/202512_KONTEXTANALYSE_Industrielle-Modernisierung-durch-Kreislaufwirtschaft.pdf) by the KONTEXT Institute uses the resource- and energy-intensive construction and metal sectors as examples to show that the circular economy can make a significant contribution to modernising industry. With the right measures, raw materials, energy, and emissions are saved while jobs and prosperity are secured at the same time. The study is based on a modelling by the Austrian Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA) and the Center of Economic Analysis and Research (CESAR), commissioned by Kontext.

You can find more context for this graphic in: [KONTEXTANALYSE #5: How Circular Economy Modernises Industries.](https://kontext-institut.at/uploads/Dateien/202512_KONTEXTANALYSE_Industrielle-Modernisierung-durch-Kreislaufwirtschaft.pdf)

- [KONTEXTANALYSE #5: How Circular Economy Modernises Industries (GERMAN)](https://kontext-institut.files.svdcdn.com/production/Dateien/202512_KONTEXTANALYSE_Industrielle-Modernisierung-durch-Kreislaufwirtschaft.pdf?dm=1764583874)