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June 2019

Product Lifetime Extension Case Study: SWANE-Design

One Planet Network
This study, Product Lifetime Extension Case Study: SWANE-Design presents a successful business strategy to extend products lifetime.
10 November 2014
Research

Making obsolescence obsolete: design to reduce waste

Maroussia Klep
Maroussia Klep, OECD, discusses strategies for waste reduction, the opportunities and challenges.
17 April 2018 to 22 April 2018
Partner Event

Design4Climate Action at Milan Design Week

On 17-22 April 2018, the World Bank Group’s Connect4Climate program is presenting the “Design4Climate Action” Media Zone during the Milan Design Week.
19 February 2019
Online

Designing for Environmental Sustainability and Social Impact

+Acumen
Starting on 19 February 2019, +Acumen is offering a six-week course on "Designing for Environmental Sustainability and Social Impact." The course is designed for social innovators who want to develop entrepreneurial solutions for environmental conservation and poverty reduction. The course will explore challenges like deforestation, overfishing, waste management, and agriculture, where the environment and livelihoods are sometimes at odds. This is a hands-on, project-based course that consists of weekly readings, videos, and workshops.
October 2020

Financing Circularity: Demystifying Finance for the Circular Economy

United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
This report outlines how the financial sector can scale up financing to accelerate the shift to circular business models in order to keep resources at their highest value long-term and to reduce waste. It explores strategies and actions that financial institutions can take to manage related risks and opportunities.
November 2017

A New Textiles Economy: Redesigning fashion’s future

Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The report, A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion’s future, outlines a vision and sets out ambitions and actions – based on the principles of a circular economy – to design out negative impacts and capture a USD 500 billion economic opportunity by truly transforming the way clothes are designed, sold, and used.
January 2021

Circular Trailblazers: Scale-Ups Leading the Way Towards a More Circular Economy

World Economic Forum (WEF)
This report outlines why we need more circular trailblazers, how to spot them and what makes them successful at achieving impact on the circular economy beyond their lockstep growth.
January 2019

Going Circular: How Global Business Is Embracing The Circular Economy

Newsweek Vantage, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
This research confirms that the concept of a circular economy has gone from relative obscurity to the corporate boardroom in just a few years. It identifies five strategies and business models that companies are adopting to make their products, processes or business models more circular, and spotlights eight actions companies can take to accelerate their circular transition as well as circular drivers, including climate change, national regulations and policy, and consumer awareness and activism.
14 January 2019
Online

IIED eCourse - Circular Economy: Sustainable Materials Management

International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE)
On 14 January 2019, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) and its partners are offering an open online course on Circular Economy taught by experts from around the world. The course provides numerous cases of managing materials for sustainability, as well as teaches skills and tools for analyzing circular business models and promoting the development of your own ideas to become more involved in the transition to a Circular Economy.
January 2017

The New Plastics Economy: Catalysing action

Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The report, The New Plastics Economy: Catalysing action, provides a clear action plan, endorsed by over 40 industry leaders, for the global plastics industry to design better packaging, increase recycling rates, and introduce new models for making better use of packaging.

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