Achieve the Paris Agreement goals by implementing the circulair economy
An Interesting report, describing the challenges we need to face to achieve the Paris agreement goals: contribute to the circulair economy.
In the Paris Agreement there was a recognition of 195 countries to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. The goal for 2030 is to limit the increase in global temperature to 2°C or even 1.5 °C. To reach the 1.5 °C ambition it is estimated that annual global greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced with 26 billion tonnes CO2 in 2030. Researchers show that if all policies and measures proposed by the countries that participated in the negotiations are successfully implemented, we already deliver about half of the reductions needed by 2030.
BUT, the circulair economy can contribute to the other half!
The circular economy is a business logic that describes practical and scalable opportunities, made possible by moving towards business models and policies for an economy that is by design regenerative and as waste free as possible.
“The real benefit of the circular economy is to decouple things that we want from our economic system; prosperity, from what we do not want; the wasteful use of scarce natural resources. A circular economy is thereby a decoupling strategy aimed at growing prosperity while operating within the boundaries of our finite planet”.
When realising that over 50% of our greenhouse gas emissions are related to material management, making more efficient use of our existing materials and assets becomes a sound greenhouse gas mitigation strategy.
Interested in how we move to this circulair economy? And how circulair we already are? Read more here.