Circle Economy and the United Nations Environment Programme have teamed up to develop a methodology for measuring employment related to the circular economy. The methodology processes employment, economic and environmental data, and displays its results on the Circular Jobs Monitor—a digital tool that maps jobs that drive circular strategies across the world.
At Circle Economy, we regularly review circular frameworks to help business identify metrics that work best for their context. The Circular Transition Indicators (CTI) framework introduced in this paper, allows businesses to determine circularity on a product, business unit, site or company level.
The framework focuses on the circular vs. the linear mass that flows into and out of the business. At the same time, it gives many additional options: These include assessing recovery potential and the actual recovery, identifying ways to optimise and value the mass flow and relating circularity to a business’ revenue.
CTI was developed by businesses for businesses. It is publicly available and free to use for everyone. Any company, regardless of size, and sector can it.
At Circle Economy, we regularly review circular frameworks to help business identify metrics that work best for their context. The CIRCelligence indicators framework, designed by BCG and introduced in this paper, helps business assess the circularity of their entire value chain—from input to end of life.
It provides a holistic assessment of resources flowing into the business (inflow), of resource use (slow flow) and the type and amount of resources flowing out of the company’s boundaries (outflow). Through a qualitative assessment it also takes into account whether the business model set-up is following circular thinking in itself.
CIRCelligence is desgined for the high-level management, CSR experts and executives of a business. It requires more input than most other circular economy metrics and hence creates a more thorough and detailed overview of an organisation’s circular performance. Results can also be used to report on the progress.
The Circle Carbon Scan shows the link between the quantities of food that flow through Greater London, fueled by Londoners' consumption, and their associated consumption-based emissions*. Mapping material flows and emissions through London’s entire food and beverage supply chain enables the identification of emissions hotspots. It also uncovers suitable circular interventions that can cut the city's consumption-based emissions.
In collaboration with ReLondon, we have developed scenarios to highlight where the greatest reductions in consumption-based emissions can be made at different points across London’s food and beverage supply chain.
Interventions associated with an ambitious scenario hold the potential to reduce the consumption-based emissions of Greater London’s food system by an estimated 31%. In this ambitious scenario, reducing per capita meat consumption by 70% was estimated to yield a 20% reduction in London’s food-related consumption-based emissions per year. Reducing food losses and waste generated in London by 50% could deliver an estimated 10.5% reduction while combining this reduction with the circular management of waste could bring a cumulative emissions reduction potential of 10.9%.
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* Consumption-based emissions are allocated to the consumers or users of goods or services. They incorporate the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of products and services that are consumed, as well as the emissions associated with waste management activities. These emissions may occur both within and outside a given territory, and are allocated to the final consumers or users, rather than the producers of those emissions.
What programmes, policies, partnerships and investments are necessary to put Toronto’s circular economy goals into action—and where should the city focus its efforts? The Baselining for a Circular Toronto study attempts to answer these questions. To build an understanding of how to transition from the linear ‘take-make-waste’ system to a circular economy, the City of Toronto, working with the David Suzuki Foundation and Circle Economy, has undertaken a study on the current state of circularity and resource use in Toronto.
Baselining for a Circular Toronto supports the City’s circular economy aspirations by establishing a baseline circularity analysis. This study will inform future City of Toronto work, including the development of a Circular Economy Road Map for Toronto.
Phase one of the project—the landscape analysis—assessed the current state of circularity in Toronto, and how this may help or hinder the ability to transition to a circular economy.
Phase two—the material flow analysis—modelled material consumption and disposal in three key economic sectors (waste management, construction, and the food system) and projected what future material consumption and waste generation could look like in 2030 if no action is taken.
Phase three—the final report—highlights key focus areas for Toronto’s circular transition, proposed an aspirational vision for what a circular Toronto could look like and identified the various partners that could contribute to making the vision a reality.
Peru is making moves to adopt a circular economy, in line with its ambitions towards sustainable development. This report explores strategies to drive circularity in the agricultural sector, drawing from best practices in Colombia, Chile and the Netherlands to guide action in farming, forestry, fishing and aquaculture. Insights from two workshops—comprising agricultural stakeholders from the public and private sectors—are also disseminated and analysed to determine the key elements and common objectives of a Peruvian Circular Economy Platform. Read the full report—only available in Spanish—for recommendations on kickstarting the circular transition in the Peruvian context.
The Circular Toolbox aims to enable apparel brands to design and launch their own circular pilot, specifically applying a rental or resale business model. The toolbox guides apparel brands through a five-step circular innovation process, from getting sign-off from the top and putting a team together all the way to piloting the new concept on the ground.
Resources include design thinking and research tools, workshop sheets and facilitator’s guides, a podcast featuring brands that have gone through the same process and, crucially, specific guidance on how and when to use each tool.
The circular innovation process outlined in the toolbox was tried and tested by the Switching Gear project. This project guided four brands — Asket, Lindex, ETP and Kuyichi — as they developed and launched circular business model pilots. Circular business models, such as resale and rental, offer commercial opportunities for brands to innovate their business model while expanding the practical service life of clothing — allowing brands to do more with less. When intelligently designed, they can also reduce the total environmental impact of the industry.
It is an initiative of Circle Economy, made possible thanks to the support of Laudes Foundation.
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Future jobs need to contribute to the circular economy if we want to achieve the ambitious goals of the Dutch Government to become fully circular by 2050. But does a circular economy offer sufficient employment opportunities for our growing population? And do we have the right skills to make the transition happen? To accelerate circularity, answering these questions is crucial. This report by KPMG and Circle Economy, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Watermanagement, researched these questions and concludes:
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