The Great Transition to a Green and Circular Economy

The green transition is the way to a sustainable and fair planet, and necessary to secure supply chains, deliver predictable prices, and ensure access to raw materials despite resource scarcity through sustainable production and consumption.

This book provides broad, essential insights into the main elements of the green transition, circular economy, and sustainability. Sustainability and the green transition will mean new market conditions for businesses. Companies will be subject to new legislation at the corporate and product level alike. They will need to meet new requirements, e.g., having to provide a tremendous amount of new non-financial ESG data to deliver transparency and traceability in the value chains of products and businesses.

The book aims to close the gaps between science and businesses. To do so, it provides roadmaps to transform today's linear economy and make businesses ready for the future - which will be characterized by new market conditions, new consumption patterns, new demands from employees, and a society that no longer pushes the planet beyond its limits.