Circular Economy

In case you missed the most recent "GGKP webinar: Greening SMEs towards a Just Transition from Policies to Practice" from 11 April 2024, please find the recording below!

Jointly hosted by DCED and supported by ILO, this fourth webinar in the webinar series, "Expert insights to support effective green private sector development" discussed key policies and support services that promote both environmental sustainability and decent work among MSMEs.

The webinar set the scene by introducing the key principles of Just Transition, as outlined by ILO's Just Transition guidelines. They include a wide spectrum of considerations from mental health to gender equality; as well as inclusion of all, including workers, communities, women, indigenous communities, youth and so on.

Noting how SMEs are crucial for just transition to environmentally sustainable economies with decent work opportunities, the webinar then turned to practical examples from Mauritius, Kenya, Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan. For instance, they addressed some practical circularity measures such as enhancing resource efficiency and waste management practices which can lead to higher business productivity; insurance strategies that businesses can consider which proof them against climate change-induced events such as floods; and some product regulations as well as different eco-labels that manufacturing SMEs can keep close eyes onto.

To listen to the full webinar and retrieve further details about these hands-on examples of green and inclusive SME practices, click on the webinar recording link below.

Hi there, do you work to support SMEs? Or do you work on discovering circular economic solutions?

Every few months, the I-GO initiative at GGKP invites stakeholders and active projects around the world that support SMEs to enhance resource efficiency and contribute towards a green and circular economy transition. These roundtables provide experience-sharing and informal networking opportunities, which in turn can strengthen collaboration.

In case you missed our last quarterly I-GO Community roundtable, you can find the recording below.

At this 5th roundtable, we provided updates from the EU-funded Circular Economy project that GGKP is implementing (the first survey results and upcoming activities like a community of practice launch for Circular Economy initiatives around the world); as well as invited circular #textile practitioners to tune into perspectives from both the private sector and global projects with regional activities.

Based on the presentations from Lee-Hendor Ruiters from the National Cleaner Production Centre South Africa (NCPC-SA) and Ramesh De Silva from a Sri Lankan textile repair firm, Compreli, questions flowed in from the audience, such as: How can we convince big and small apparel brands to use second-hand or repaired garments? How can we secure manufacturers' buy-in for using repaired garments? How global and regional projects can enable their policy and technical support to address the pre-consumer textile waste.

Watch the recording to find out about the answers as well as access the full presentations from the experienced garment repair business and the circular textile project kickstarting in South Africa. You can also find the presentations below.

Finally, let us know in the comments or get in touch ([email protected]) to share the topics YOU want to talk about - anything SME, circular economy, resource efficiency related - at the next I-GO Community roundtable! (And join the roundtable!)

The World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF) is coming back in about a month's time! Are you excited?

GGKP will be co-organising / supporting TWO accelerator sessions at WCEF 2024.

First is co-organising the session on, 'the EU in the Global Circular Economy Transition: Inspiration, incentives and market leverage' alongside the European Commission, Green Economy Coalition, and PAGE among our partners.

Did you ever wonder what actual ground-level impacts the EU Circular Economy policies and initiatives are making? Or how similar/different the EU CE action plan is from other regions, let's say Africa's? This is your chance to hear from & speak to the EU Circular Economy practitioners, as well as its global collaborators on the detailed ins and outs of the CE efforts so far. REGISTER here: https://thegreenforum.org/event/eu-global-circular-economy-transition-i…

The second accelerator session we're supporting is titled, 'Driving the Circular Economy Transition with Private Sector Initiatives'.

The global circular economy transition will not only bring behavioural changes to our consumption and waste management, but also the global value chains imposing substantial changes to how SMEs, entrepreneurs, and the entire private sector works. Join the session to learn more about experiences from the field, and how we can address the value chain-wide challenges come the global circular economy transition. REGISTER here: https://thegreenforum.org/event/driving-circular-economy-transition-pri…

Both events can be joined ONLINE.

At Green Miles Zero Waste Services we have just developed a Digital App to enhance our one of a kind in Kenya Onsite waste management and minimization OS that offers a business service through real time waste recovery and optimizing upcycling and recycling hence diverting 95% of waste from ending up to the landfill with the Key advantage of;
-Reducing Green Gas emissions
-Value addition to recycling through packaging non contaminated recovered recyclables enhancing circular economy.
-Digital App to connect and train under the GreenCycle over 150,000 households on Organic waste management, over 2500 contracts that generate municipal waste.
-Digitally backed real time waste management tracking onsite, transportation, packaging and end user recycling for audits and Consumer Environmental performance reports towards carbon foot print and Net Zero reviews.
-Gender balance consideration with the ability to sanitize under the aggregation and mobile sorting crew waste pickers under a wage program in the project waste resource Green Centers set to absorb over 1000 youths per year, 50% women in the informal sectors of Nairobi, Mombasa and Nakuru.

We are looking at partnering with like solution based organizations, companies, individuals who can be ready and willing to partner with us achieve this vast Climate Change mitigation process initiative tried and applicable.

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Hi everybody,

A Green Economy allows countries to create economic progress while addressing key societal and environmental issues.

According to the UNEP, a green economy “results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing risks and ecological scarcities."

PAGE and UNCC Learn offer self-paced courses on Green Economy. These e-courses will give you the tools and knowledge to fully understand this concept and put it into practice.

Learn more today: https://unccelearn.org/courses/?language=en&thematicarea=greeneconomy

Hi everybody,

I'm looking for a scaling partner (e.g. hospital, healthcare provider, DHB etc) in the healthcare industry to help me implement and test my solution for a global cooperative forum or circular economy.

Basically how the system works is by delegating SMEs or stakeholders within the healthcare industry the ability to create policies together and to implement those polices or the rules that make up those policies as forums.

End users or other stakeholders would then join the forum(s) to help manage those rules at scale or in real-time.

This is a new approach toward a circular economy and has taken me several years to figure out the nuts and bolts of how information and business processes can operate sustainably or at scale.

If anybody has got any friends or know of anybody working in the healthcare industry and who might be interested in helping me test and implement this solution then please reach out.

This approach doesn't just apply to the healthcare industry and can also be applied to other industries including food, energy, education, housing and so on.

This approach targets SDG-11 Sustainable Cities and Communities and SDG-17 Partnerships for the Goals.

Thank you!

PS: I have included a link to the image attached to this post as I found the image to be somewhat blurry.

hi all,

Happy New Year to all of you!

I just wanted to share with you this course that I recommend to take to get a broader global perspective of our work and the relation of CE and SDGs.
This will be 3rd of 5th edition of this course already by UNSSC. I attended this back in 2020 and I can recommend for its interesting broad global perspective and also good networking with fellow students. However, it might sometimes feel a bit superficial or repetitive for such a crowd like you, but nevertheless I do recommend it to those of you who really want to get the broader perspective, beyond Europe, how CE can leverage developing countries' situation.

It is free of charge. see details below.

https://www.unssc.org/courses/circular-economy-and-2030-agenda-1

Enroll by 27th January

All the best,