Circular construction

The construction sector holds one of the greatest potentials for a circular transition. The sector represents an enormous potential for reducing waste and increasing recycling and reuse. A building can be designed for circularity if it is designed to be easily decommissioned, e.g. using principles of modularity and design-for-disassembly to enable higher reuse of the building materials.

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Designing for the circular economy — the Danish way

Blog post by Ditte Lysgaard Vind, founder of The Circular Way and Partnerships Director at Lendager. The blog post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to LOOP Forum in Copenhagen and Circular City Week in New York.

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Denmark's Biodiversity Partnership: Discover recommendations on how to act on biodiversity

21 October 2024

It's time to turn biodiversity commitments into concrete action. Launched during COP16, this publication presents tangible recommendations to biodiversity action from Denmark's Biodiversity Partnership.

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Call for better framework conditions and support measures in the battle for biodiversity

21 October 2024

The Danish Biodiversity Partnership aims to provide clarity and collaboration on corporate biodiversity efforts through recommendations for businesses, authorities and institutions. These recommendations outline a vision and mission to guide companies in addressing biodiversity loss and supporting global goals.

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Recommendations on how to work on biodiversity

21 October 2024

By reducing negative effects and supporting restoration efforts, businesses can align with national and global biodiversity goals. Presenting a number of tangible recommendations, The Biodiversity Partnership seeks to support companies and financial institutions to identify their impact on biodiversity and take action.

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The task of the Danish Biodiversity Partnership

21 October 2024

The Danish Biodiversity Partnership aims to provide clarity and collaboration on corporate biodiversity efforts through recommendations for businesses, authorities and institutions. These recommendations outline a vision and mission to guide companies in addressing biodiversity loss and supporting global goals.

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Adressing the biodiversity crisis

21 October 2024

The world faces an urgent biodiversity crisis, with species disappearing at an alarming rate. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted in December 2022, sets ambitious targets to halt this decline, including protecting 30 percent of the world’s land and marine areas by 2030. Achieving these targets requires active involvement from governments, businesses, civil society, and citizens.

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Waiting for someone to solve the biodiversity crisis

21 October 2024

The following perspective is a foreword for the publication "From biodiversity commitments to concrete action" by Professor in Biological Oceanography, Globe Institute & Leader, Sustainability Science Centre, University of Copenhagen, Katherine Richardson.

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Circular business models

By addressing product life extension, reuse and the recycling of waste, circular business models can re-duce consumption and minimise waste generation. They allow products to be continuously used, reused, sold as a service, and enable the sharing of products, rather than incentivizing a one-time purchase. A commonality and driving forces are data collection, digital tools, and design.

Waste management

Successful waste management utilises the potential of waste by increasing recycling and reuse of materials while limiting the amount of waste that goes to landfill. Denmark has an efficient waste management system in place and aims to have a climate-neutral waste sector by 2030.

Circular construction

The construction sector holds one of the greatest potentials for a circular transition. The sector represents an enormous potential for reducing waste and increasing recycling and reuse. A building can be designed for circularity if it is designed to be easily decommissioned, e.g. using principles of modularity and design-for-disassembly to enable higher reuse of the building materials.