Today’s organizations are increasingly expected to take responsibility for the ways in which their activities impact their customers and workers, the wider society, and the natural environment. Therefore, today`s business executives need to successfully guide
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Improving recycling of textiles based on lessons from policies for other recyclable materials
Please find attached our last article in Improving recycling of textiles based on lessons from policies for other recyclable materials. Highlights • Textile waste disposal encompasses 5% of global landfill. • There is a need
Read moreThe circular economy demands a collective effort of business, governments, and consumers
In my previous post I wrote that it is important that we get sustainability and secular economy as standard subjects in vocational, bachelor and master’s degrees. This is so important that we need to start
Read moreTowards the circular economy of the future, we need considerable emphasis on sustainability and secular economy in today’s undergraduate and master’s programs.
The Covid19 pandemic has shown us that the world has taken a step closer to reducing emissions targets in the short term. It is important that we are also able to build sustainable solutions in
Read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic has changed education forever.
Because of the Covid19 pandemic, the school across the world has had to rethink its teaching whether it wanted to or not. Globally, over 1.2 billion children are out of the classroom. As a result,
Read moreCulture is a key element in sustainable development as it frames people’s relationships and attitudes
We see that more and more companies are making significant progress in addressing sustainability and more and more companies making partnership with the UN Global Compact office and support the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs. These
Read moreLEADERSHIP SKILLS IS NECESSEARY TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Developing the leadership skills, we need for the transition to a sustainable economy is both urgent and critical to our future economic success – as well as to our social and environmental well-being. Therefore, we
Read moreThe European Commission has adopted a new Circular Economy Action Plan
It is great to see that the European Commission has adopted a new Circular Economy Action Plan – one of the main blocks of the European Green Deal, Europe’s new agenda for sustainable growth. The
Read moreImproving recycling of textiles based on lessons from policies for other recyclable materials
Our latest article has been approved and will be available soon in the Journal Sustainable Production and Consumption
Read moreAvfall er fremtidens råvare som må utnyttes i større grad – vi trenger nye økonomiske modeller som er sirkulære
I mai 2018 vedtok EUs ministerråd et nytt avfalls direktiv. Det nye EU direktivet om avfalls- og gjenvinningbransjen har dermed blitt dette tiårets viktigste rammeverket for overgangen til en sirkulær økonomi. Begrepet municipal waste defineres
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