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Business-driven solutions to transforming consumption - The Futures Centre
Our economy consumes finite natural resources faster than they regenerate. Our current patterns of consumption are deeply inequitable, leaving many without their basic needs met, while overconsumption threatens our health and produces mountains and islands of waste. Solutions to such problems have the potential to create an estimated $4.5 trillion USD in value across the sharing economy, circular economy and dematerialisation. With this in mind, how can businesses help and start acting today?
How can businesses unlock growth by transforming consumption?
Our economy consumes finite natural resources faster than they regenerate. Our current patterns of consumption are deeply inequitable, leaving many without their basic needs met, and overconsumption threatens our health and produces mountains and islands of waste. Solving these problems would amount to an estimated $4.5 trillion USD in value across the sharing economy, circular economy, and dematerialisation. With this in mind, how can businesses help?
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America’s largest coal miners' union backs clean energy
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In January of 2019, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) issued a statement of intent to make all Indian airports free of plastic. The first phase of this plan, to ban all single-use plastics, is already implemented across more than thirty airports who have already undergone waste assessments for benchmarking. The ban will take effect in the remaining airports upon completion of such assessments, which the AAI says are to be finished by February 2019. So what?
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Climate change forces Guatemalans to migrate
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The/Studio raises $11 million for its on-demand manufacturing platform
In an effort to solve the problem of small merchants and designers lacking access to manufacturing and supply chains, The/Studio is offering on-demand manufacturing and design services. The company, founded in 2013, is among a number of firms providing these services to small merchants, large merchants, and even individuals.
Malaysian government commits to maintaining forest cover and halting palm oil expansion
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Fish and invertebrate research predicts mass marine migrations
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