How does material efficiency create value for businesses?

What do the following key material efficiency strategies mean concretely for business models: more intensive use, lifetime extension, material substitution, better recycling and efficient design?

How can the buildings and mobility sectors implement more intensive use strategies for existing housing and vehicles?

What are key policy incentives for “more intensive use” and other approaches to material efficiency?

On 2 February (2pm CET), join the GGKP, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, International Resource Panel (IRP), World Economic Forum (WEF) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for a discussion on how to put "more intensive use" strategies into practice in the housing and mobility sectors. 

This webinar will also serve as the launch of "Implications for Business Leaders," an addition to the recent IRP report Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future. 

Speakers

Kristina Church, Head of Sustainable Solutions, Lombard Odier Investment Managers

Anirban Ghosh, Chief Sustainability Officer, Mahindra Group

Edgar Hertwich, International Chair of Industrial Ecology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Executive Fellow at the Yale School of Environment

Reid Lifset, Research Scholar and Resident Fellow in Industrial Ecology at Yale University, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Industrial Ecology

Martin Pauli, Germany Foresight Advisory Lead, ARUP

Christoph Wolff, Head of Shaping the Future of Mobility and Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum

Moderated by Janez Potočnik, Co-chair of the International Resource Panel and Partner at SYSTEMIQ