Circular economy: A strategic response to resource uncertainty and planetary boundaries

Name: Circular economy: A strategic response to resource uncertainty and planetary boundaries
Start: 2025-06-23T17:15:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-23T19:00:00+02:00

Jun 23 2025 - 5:30 pm - Via Microsoft Teams

On Monday, June 23, at 5:15 pm, there will be the event Circular Economy: a strategic response to resource uncertainty and planetary boundaries. The event will be held on the MS Teams platform as part of the Executive Master’s in Sustainability Transition Management.

In the business context, the circular economy initially emerged as a means to optimize production processes and reduce waste, evolving into a recycling-oriented practice aimed at closing material life cycles. While this remains a key focus in political agendas, as reflected in the International Circular Economy Roadmap and the upcoming European Circular Economy Act, the current geopolitical landscape is elevating circularity to a more strategic role. Driven by its potential to address global market constraints, the circular economy increasingly takes on the characteristics of a resilience strategy. When embedding added value creation through innovative business models that emphasize dematerialization, reuse, repair, remanufacturing, circularity becomes a matter of competitiveness. In this regard, circular economy represents a new way of doing business, stimulating business players to go beyond traditional corporate boundaries to embrace an ecosystem of actors and drive a systemic change in both production and consumption patterns. Yet, reflecting on the past decade, today more than ever, it is essential to understand circularity as a complement to sufficiency, ensuring we safeguard biodiversity, address climate change, and operate within the planet’s ecological limits. This lecture aims to offer a revitalized perspective on the circular economy, encouraging professionals and leaders of the next decade to become active agents in the sustainability transition journey

Moderator: Eleonora Foschi | Permanent researcher at the Circular Economy Lab within the Department for Sustainability of ENEA and core faculty and member of the Centre for Sustainability and Climate Change at Bologna Business School

The event will be held in English.

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