This year’s Forum focused on the next era of circular economy and how to scale up the transition by spreading new technologies and making regulatory changes – a prime setting to start discussions about Transform Together’s vision for 2030. During the events and networking, we established contact with new interested governments; Chile, Singapore and South Africa. We also strengthened our relationship with the Canadian and British governments who have previously shown interested in joining the partnership. Our partners Closing the Loop, the Finnish government and Dutch government spoke at several sessions to share their inspiring circular economy solutions. In addition, Bioregional hosted a ‘campfire discussion’ to explore ideas to create a circular IT sector. This session was attended by Antonia Gawel, Head of the Circular Economy Initiative at the World Economic Forum, Paul Ekins from London School of Economics and co-chair of the UN’s Global Environmental Outlook report, in addition to other academics and investors. “If we are to be successful with Circular Economy it needs to be realistic & pragmatic, inclusive, easy and effective” There was a strong presence of Transform Together partners attending with Sue Riddlestone, Johanna Tilkanen and Florence Best from Bioregional; Annika Overodder from TCO Development; Joost de Kluijver from Closing the Loop; Jean-Pierre Schweitzer from the European Environment Bureau; Jachym Judl, Taina Nikula and Annika Lindblom from the Finnish government; alongside Dutch environment Minister Stientje van Veldhoven.
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