terça-feira, 3 de março de 2020
domingo, 1 de março de 2020
«IKEA has committed to becoming a circular business by 2030»
«IKEA has committed
to becoming a circular business
by 2030, by eliminating waste and reusing resources. A year into the project,
sustainability head Lena Pripp-Kovac tells Dezeen how they're getting on.
The Swedish furniture giant
announced last year that it plans to make all its products according to
circular principles by 2030, meaning that they can be reused, refurbished or recycled. It will
use only renewable or recycled materials across its entire range.
Called People and Planet Positive,
the strategy was launched in June 2018, with the first report following
earlier this year. Lena Pripp-Kovac, who is head of sustainability at IKEA, is
the person responsible for making the transformation happen.
"The aim is to remove
waste," Pripp-Kovac told Dezeen in an exclusive interview. "It's a big journey but it's also
quite exciting because it's possible."
"People need to sleep, people
need to eat and people need to play and provide for their families," she
continued. "How do we do that without being wasteful?"(...)». Continue a ler.
terça-feira, 11 de fevereiro de 2020
«Integrated Thinking & Strategy»
«Integration will drive business performance in the 21st century
In today's world, when the financial and manufactured assets of a business can account for as little as twenty percent of market value, businesses are applying a new lens to understand and explain how value is created and how success can be sustained in the long term. (...)». Continue a ler.
domingo, 19 de janeiro de 2020
«COMPLETING THE PICTURE / HOW THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY TACKLES CLIMATE CHANGE»
«Completing the Picture highlights the indispensable role that the circular economy plays in tackling the climate crisis. It aims to demonstrate how circular economy principles and strategies significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It sets out analysis on industry and the food system to illustrate how the circular economy transforms the way products are made and used, and how this transformation has the potential to reduce emissions. These insights have been drawn from two Material Economics reports – Industrial transformation 2050 (2019) and The circular economy: a powerful force for climate mitigation (2018) – and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Cities and circular economy for food (2019) report. It discusses initial findings indicating that the circular economy offers a unique potential to increase resilience to the physical effects of climate change, and aims to initiate a deeper exploration of the subject. Finally, setting clear priorities, the paper calls on governments, businesses, investors, and academia to integrate their efforts to respond to climate change with those to accelerate the transition to a circular economy».
«By 2050, 2.5 billion more people will live in cities, demanding more food, products and services than ever before, even while we face growing challenges related to resource scarcity and climate change»
«By 2050, 2.5 billion more people will live in
cities, demanding more food, products and services than ever before, even while
we face growing challenges related to resource scarcity and climate
change.
This is why The Liveability Challenge is back in 2020. In this
third edition, we're looking for groundbreaking, deep tech solutions in three
key areas — Urban
Food Production, Circular
Packaging and Decarbonisation.
If your solution is at Technology
Readiness Level 6 and suitable
for cities in the tropics, submit your idea and you could secure the
opportunity to pitch to Asia's top investors at The Liveability Challenge
Grand Finale this July.
The best solutions could
win up to S$1 million in funding and other exclusive opportunities at the
finale, which will be held during Ecosperity Week in Singapore». Saiba mais.
sábado, 11 de janeiro de 2020
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