“The last lesson I learnt is that sustainability is not in the future but in the present. Personal experience taught me that most people want to be reassured that they are going to survive 2019.” Silvio Funtowicz, Philosopher of Science, University of Bergen During the first week of F

By Nicholas M. Holden, Beacon Bioeconomy Research Centre, University College Dublin, Ireland. Nick.Holden@ucd.ie For Citation: SITE4society Brief No. 17-2019 Related to Sustainable Development Goal #SDG12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns[1] Country Focus: Ireland

On 3 May 2019, the 6th SITE4Society event will take place in Bonn, as part of the SDG Global Festival of Action 2019! The event will be co-organised by United Nations University-MERIT and United Nations University-FLORES. After talking with our Circular Economy champions in our last e

“Europe isn’t rich in natural resources, but we are very rich in human resources, and the circular economy can draw on those and export the technologies they spawn to the rest of the world,” said Karmenu Vella, European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, ann

A joint post by Prof. Shyama V. Ramani and Maria Tomai The many varied possibilities of the ‘Circular Economy’ are starting to enter the public consciousness. But what is it exactly? “Looking beyond the current ‘take, make and dispose’ extractive industrial model, the circular economy

Governments worldwide have pledged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. But given the scale of the task, not even national governments can manage alone. This has sparked a new phenomenon: whereby non-governmental players – from start-ups to social enterprises t