The ICT sector is essential for economic growth and tackling climate change, as it provides the infrastructure and services underpinning solutions to environmental challenges. However, the way resources are extracted and the increase in electronic waste driven by current production and consumption models are major contributors to climate, nature, and social issues.
Although using renewable energy and improving efficiency are helping reduce carbon emissions from the sector, the heavy reliance on materials, focus on making new products, and disregarding waste make it harder to achieve sustainability goals. Current climate commitments are at risk of failing, and the sector faces broader risks tied to an unsustainable economic model, such as regulatory and resilience risks.
Adopting circularity (circular economy) as a core principle to designing products, business models and systems is therefore essential to enabling the transition to Net Zero. This is driving policymakers to integrate circularity within regulations and is gaining traction within the sector.
Why attend?
This session will address the challenges and opportunities of circularity in the context of the climate transition, bringing together companies and organisations that are leading the way. We will explore questions including:
- How companies can take action and transform their business models
- How innovation and collaboration can drive change at scale and speed
- How circularity can support commercial objectives
- Where to begin on this journey and get the support needed
