'The circular economy holds massive climate mitigation potential.'

This year's anniversary edition of the Circularity Gap Report—Circle Economy's annual assessment of how circular the world is and where we are headed—looks back at five years of analysis and learnings to highlight key messages worth repeating:
70% of greenhouse gas emissions are related to the way we produce and use products.

If applied globally and combined with current national climate pledges, circular solutions could deliver significant emissions reductions.

In the last few years since the Paris Agreement, we consumed more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials and the Circularity Gap got worse, not better.

On our way to net zero and to a more circular world, we must not forget about people.

Our response to the climate emergency must reduce global and local inequalities and protect against overshooting the means of the planet.

Explore the full report: https://lnkd.in/dBw7Q9Wx

Do you know those measures that are - comparatively - easy both for people and government to implement? When it comes to climate change they rare, I know, but they do exist!

Tackling food waste through home-composting to lower GHG emissions is one of those.

Happy to see that from January, most people in California will be required to toss excess food into green waste bins rather than the trash. Municipalities will then turn the food waste into compost or use it to create biogas.

The effort is designed to keep landfills in the most populous U.S. state clear of food waste that damages the atmosphere as it decays.

The contribution of plastic waste and the plastics industry to climate change is often less known or worse, disregarded.

The impacts of mismanaged plastic waste on the climate, as well as on livelihoods and ecosystems, are an urgent development challenge.

Seychelles "Eco-District" award to encourage sustainable waste management.

"“The selection criteria range from community involvement, coordination, communication, nature conservation and conservation initiatives, to community responsibility and networking," says Jeanette Larue, the Director General of the Public Education and Community Outreach Division in the Seychelles Ministry of Environment.

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