Date & Time: March 5th, 2020 4:00pm - 17:30pm
Venue: Harvard Business School, Room Aldrich 109 (Aldrich Hall)
Today, the global economy is only 8.6% circular — just two years ago it was 9.1%. The global circularity gap is widening and the trend is negative. These trends are embedded deeply within the ‘take-make-waste’ tradition of the linear economy. As such, the outlook to close the circularity gap looks bleak under the dead hand of business as usual. We desperately need transformative and correctional solutions; change is a must.
Join the discussion with Caspar von Daniels, one of the co-authors of the Circularity Gap Report 2020, moderated by Professor Jane Nelson, Director of the Corporate Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School.
Lunch will be provided.
Hosted by the Center for International Development (CID) / Growth Lab
Speakers: Marianne Kettunnen (IEEP Brussels) and Shunta Yamaguchi (OECD Paris)
Society faces some pretty big challenges such as extreme price fluctuations of raw materials, questions of energy security, and climate change. Does our current focus allow us to solve these problems effectively? Maybe we’re inclined to label things too fast and think of challenges as only political, environmental, social, or economic affairs. Through the lens of materials and their consumption, IN THE LOOP illustrates how these views intersect and sets out to encourage thinking about today's challenges from a new angle.
Join us for a workshop conducted by Katie Whalen, the creator of the In the Loop design game. IN THE LOOP uses game-based learning techniques to illustrate the interconnectedness of today's society by combing different approaches to today's resource use into one broader perspective. The game raised more than EUR12,000 on Kickstarter and has been distributed in over 30 countries.
Harvard Kennedy School - March 5th 2020
Wexner 434B - 9:30 am-12:00 pm
Graduate School of Design - March 4th 2020
Gund 110 - 11:00 am-12:30 pm
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences - March 4th 2020
Buckminster’s Cafe, 11 Oxford St. - 4:00 pm-5:30 pm
For more information, please check the website. https://intheloopgame.com/
Part of Weatherhead Scholars Seminar, February 5th 2020
Speakers: Henrique Pacini and Kuniaki Iwatani (US-Japan Programme)
Lunch available at 11:45
Time: 12:00 – 13:15 Room: K262, CGIS Knafel Building
Much buzz has been created around the reduce-reuse-recycle motto. At the same time,
growing incomes across the world have fed a nearly continuous expansion of material consumption across all countries. This has led to pressures in waste management and environmental stewardship, with negative spillovers to biodiversity, economies and society. Many countries now face the simultaneous questions of how to reduce waste streams and how to recover the value of what is currently being discarded. In this process, countries need to find a balance between domestic action and international trade in recyclable materials. As the 2017 China-ban on scrap material exemplified, political demands have risen against such flows, in contrast with the growing global interest in expanding circular economy across borders.
This presentation will show some insights of research work being undertaken by Henrique Pacini on patterns of recyclables trade from selected materials (plastics, textiles, paper and metals) using UN COMTRADE data, in an attempt to identify areas for action to promote a better global circular economy. The presentation will be complemented with a country case of Japan by Mr. Kuniaki Iwatani (US-Japan Programme) focused on the problems and dillemas of plastics recycling & exports.
Join us for a movie screening of 'Closing the Loop', a film about the circular economy revolution, directed by A two-time Telly® Award and Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Graham Sheldon and presented by global sustainability expert, Prof. Dr. Wayne Visser.
For more information on the film, visit http://www.closingtheloopfilm.com/
*Limited food and beverages will be provided.
*This event is organized as part of the inaugural Circular Economy Symposium at Harvard, the first of our series of pre-symposium events.
