Jocelyn Bleriot World Circular Economy Forum 2017 Helsinki Finland
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The document outlines the benefits of transitioning to a circular economy model which aims to design pollution and waste out of the system, keep products and materials in use, and rebuild natural capital. Adopting this model could lead to up to $630 billion in materials savings by 2025, 50% reductions in water and fertilizer use by 2050, and significantly lower CO2 emissions and primary material consumption compared to the current development scenario.
Jocelyn Bleriot World Circular Economy Forum 2017 Helsinki Finland
- 1. 5 June 2017, Helsinki. Jocelyn Blériot @jossbleriot
- 3. 3 RESTORE, REGENERATE, REDEFINE GROWTH Design pollution and waste out Keep products and materials in use, rebuild natural capital Reveal and phase out negative impacts
- 5. 5 Comparison of potential development paths: impact on the environment 39 69 17 52 2050 2030 59 78 47 68 2050 2030 Current development scenario Circular economy scenario EU-27, indexed (2012 = 100) CO2 emissions Primary material consumption
- 6. Up to $630bn materials savings by 2025
- 7. Up to $630bn materials savings Up to 50% water and fertilisers reduction by 2050
- 10. 5 June 2017, Helsinki. Jocelyn Blériot @jossbleriot
Editor's Notes
- Cleaning up is a necessary short term action, resetting the system is the long-term solution.
- We decided to take a different entry point into that debate this time. We did NOT take resource dependence as the starting point. Although EU remains heavily resource dependent We did NOT start with environmental degradation although they are getting ever more evident. We started analyzing the economic waste in our system. And we started in some of the most mature, optimized sectors. Look what you find: Take mobility: The European car is parked 92 percent of the time Take food: A full 31 percent of European food goes to waste along the value chain. Or take buildings: In the built environment, the average European office is used only 35-40 percent of the time, even during working hours. The European economy has improved in resource productivity but still remains surprisingly wasteful in its resource use and remains, for all practical purposes, a take-make-dispose product model.