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SDIS2021
SDIS21: Tech for Good - What are the challenges in making technology more sustainable?
To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we must address challenges like universal internet access, cybersecurity and the proliferation of e-waste.
Circular Economy
Powering the Circular Industry Transition
Tune in to watch on 15 September 2021 at 10:30-11:30 CEST.
Plastics and the Environment
How a 'trash-to-treasure' mentality can change plastic waste
From reused fishing gear to PPE, innovative waste-to-product designs suggest that a fully circular plastic economy, where nothing is wasted, could be possible
International Trade and Investment
Why foreign direct investment is key to Africa's sustainable recovery
The pandemic has reduced foreign direct investment flows to African economies. Support is needed to help with investment promotion and facilitation.
Circular Economy
These Dutch cities are using the circular economy to conserve water
Using less and recycling more could help relieve the planet’s overstressed water resources. Is circularity the way forward?
Circular Economy
Why digitalization is critical to creating a global circular economy
Accelerating the transformation to a circular economy, in order to meet global climate goals by 2050, can be achieved through responsible digitalization.
Circular Economy
Prague: The circular European capital you haven’t heard about yet
Czech capital is a trailblazer in building a circular economy after a Circle Scan analysed material flows, GHG emissions and value generation of its economy
Agriculture, Food and Beverage
This NASA-inspired technology converts carbon dioxide into food. Here’s how
Tech developed for astronauts in the 1960s is helping an American company transform CO2 into food and bio-based products to help combat climate change.
Circular Economy
How changemakers in Bangkok are popularising the circular economy
Changemakers in Bangkok have learned first-hand what early conversations with leaders in business and policy require to drive circular change.
Circular Economy
Repairing – not recycling – is the first step to tackling e-waste from smartphones. Here’s why.
The ability to repair phones will be key to conserving resources, tackling e-waste and climate mitigation, and building a circular economy for electronics.
Circular Economy
Which global consumers are helping to save the planet?
Public and private sector must lead the way in reducing carbon emissions but consumers can contribute through environmentally friendly lifestyle choices.
SDG 13: Climate Action
IKEA's digital chief on how tech can tackle COVID and the climate: Meet The Leader
Absorbing the e-commerce surge that COVID brought almost overnight was possible thanks in part to a digital transition already several years underway run by IKEA's first-ever Chief Digita...
Circular Economy
Cities Go Circular
This reveals how pilot initiatives were implemented over 6-months making cities more circular - innovating, collaborating, and bringing grassroots change.
UpLink
A ‘dating site’ with a difference that’s pairing waste with recycling opportunities
Could we recycle and reuse more? The founder of this “dating” site for waste says she can match materials to organisations that can unlock their reuse potential and save the planet.
Future of Consumption
Majority of consumers willing to pay more for goods which use scarce natural resources - Ipsos survey
Most people surveyed agree that businesses should be taxed and products appropriately labelled to help protect our dwindling natural resources - even if it pushes up prices.