Publishings

Circular economy strategies can be achieved using such financial instruments as green bonds, green loans, sustainability-linked loans and circular leasing.  Sustainability-linked finance calls for innovative business models and financing that integrates circularity in discrete development projects and for general corpo ...

A circular community promotes an equitable transition to sustainability across the urban space through multiple city functions and departments in cross-sectoral collaboration with research institutions, local businesses, and community residents.  In a circular economy, existing materials that were once used in a produc ...

Nuclear energy is propagated by science, companies, and governments as a source of clean energy source, as opposed to CO₂-producing plants.  However, the effects nuclear energy has on the environment pose serious threats that cannot be ignored or greenwashed.  The principal environmental and safety concerns are CO₂ emi ...

Private finance is essential for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  To mobilize the finance and harness capital flows for sustainable development and investing, the investment community must make sense of the SDGs.  For this, a global benchmarking tool, SDG rating harmonization, a globally adopted taxon ...

Our current economic system can be considered a “linear economy”, built on a model of extracting raw materials from nature, turning them into products, and then discarding them as waste.  Currently, only 7.2% of used materials are cycled back into our economies after use.  This has a significant burden on the environme ...