The Circular Economy Global Sector Best Practices series provides a background resource or future efforts to engage Canadian firms and innovators in the journey towards a circular economy. This report profiles the bioeconomy, including its economic and environmental importance, and data on economic potential of waste resources.
In the lead up to the 50th anniversaries of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment and the UN Environment Programme, this briefing paper assesses the successes and shortcomings on hazardous waste policies and management efforts.
This report presents research to better understand the travel and tourism’s specific contribution to single-use plastic products and how the sector can address this.
This is the first comprehensive World Health Organization (WHO) report on the dimensions of the e-waste problem, including the pathways through which children are exposed, the health effects associated with the different pathways of exposure, and actions that the health sector can take alongside other sectors to confront this new and insidious health risk globally, nationally and locally.
This think piece shows the marine plastic litter trends relevant to 2050, summarizes the current plastic policy landscape, and explores policy upstream and downstream interventions to achieve the Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, and provides concrete actions to ensure that projected plastic leakage can be reduced by 80 percent with existing solutions.