Biofuels: Aiming for a Greener and Cleaner India
With wind, solar and biomass gaining prominence and replacing age old sources such as coal, oil and even nuclear energy, there is space for virtuous companies to enter new markets in India’s clean...
How GPP Works in Lombardy
With the approval of the new Public Contracts Code in 2016, Italy is the only European country that has made Green Public Procurement mandatory. This means that all public authorities have to employ...
Excess Materials Exchange: A Website for Material Dating
Name: Excess Materials Exchange Sector: Digital Platform Pros: Matching supply and demand of materials and offering better reuse opportunities Characteristics: Online marketplace where companies ca...
Nairoby: Personalised and Recyclable Snowboard
Name: Nairoby Sector: Sports Equipment Pros: Snowboards made with a thermoplastic composite that at their end of life can be recycled and/or partly reused in new equipment Characteristics: Snowboar...
Lingrove: From Flax Waste to Ekoa Biomaterial
Name: Lingrove Sector: New materials Pros: CO2 negative biomaterial obtained from flax fibre and vegetable-based resins 10 times more resistant than wood Characteristics: Bio-thermoplastic compound...
Lablaco: A Platform for Transparent, Circular and Digital Fashion
Name: Lablaco Sector: Circular Fashion Pros: Online platform that aims to make fashion more sustainable and accessible through clothes exchange and awareness campaigns Characteristics: Social marke...
Fighting the Climate Emergency: One of the European Commission's Main Priorities
Von der Leyen, on 10 September 2019, introduced the team of 26 designated European Commissioners (12 women and 14 men) who will officially be in office once the list has been approved by a vote in t...
The Return to a Green-Thinking Italy
Within the first 100 days, Timmermans will have to present the first European law on climate. Additionally, he will have to follow the existing circular economy pathway, continuing the push for fina...
Is it Always Circular to Turn a Product into a Service?
As more companies begin to explore alternatives to the linear “sell it and forget it” business model, Product as a Service (PaaS) is gaining traction.One of the five core business models to enab...
Rethinking the Chinese Economy
When was the circular economy idea first introduced in China? “As far as I know the idea of circular economy (CE) was first introduced in China in the late 1990s, by researchers and...
The Circular Republic of China
In Shanghai, the city’s administration excels in its commitment to electronic waste recycling, an ongoing ordeal that emerged from China’s digital boom. Urban mining potential is boosted by a co...
The Great Trade Challenge
A shock with worldwide repercussions: China’s ban on plastic waste imports, introduced at the beginning of 2018, has left the global recycling market reeling. The loss of the largest importer ...
How Green is Your Mine?
Western public opinion currently perceives China as a country whose prodigious economic growth has come at the price of unsustainable levels of environmental pollution. Although this idea does hold ...
Palm Oil Bioeconomy
Malaysia has an abundance of natural resources – especially, and controversially, of palm oil – and a public sector that favours innovation and attracts investments. These are the countr...
Short-Term Profits for the Few: Populism and Agribusiness in Brazil
The Amazon is on fire. We can do something. Although these are both truthful messages, they must be put into context. Indeed, scientific data about fires has often been reported with inaccura...
Regeneration: Planting Trees is the Secret Weapon for Reversing the Climate Emergency
“When I think that a man alone, reduced to his own simple physical and moral resources, was enough to cause this land of Canaan to spring out of the desert, I do find that, after all, the huma...
The Fight Against Climate Crisis Starts From the Bottom
According to data from the FAO, land conversion and organic soil drainage are responsible for approximately 10% of greenhouse gas emissions. It is precisely because of drainage that peat bogs are th...
Colombia Chooses the Circular Economy
Last November, Colombia’s Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development announced that it would launch the country’s first National Circular Economy Strategy. This initiative a...
A Circular Economy Must be a Social Economy
Back in 2015, the refugee crisis uncovered Europe’s ugliest face: thousands of people drowning in the Mediterranean, dying in the attempt to reach safe borders, just as the world’s wealt...
Algeria's Hard Path Towards a Circular Economy
2019 has been a complex year of transition for Algeria: street protests lasting over eight months led to the resignation of long-governing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and the interim government ...