CRESTING Conference - 15 December 2021
The CRESTING project will conclude in December with a conference about the implications for sustainability of the development of a circular economy. A major element of resource policy globally, a circular economy is seen as reducing carbon emissions, protecting resource security, creating jobs and promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. However, the idea that the interests and outcomes of circularity coincide with those of sustainability is largely an untested assumption.
CRESTING
CRESTING is short for "Circular Economy: Sustainability Implications and Guiding Progress". This EU funded project recruited 15 early stage researchers to be trained in cutting edge systematic analysis of circular economy related activity and initiatives in a range of geographic and economic settings. The purpose of this was to translate critical assessment to lessons for managing the transformation to a circular economy.
Conference Themes
- Company engagement with circular economy practices and methods for improvement
- Potential for places to benefit from a circular economy
- Strategies for public sector practice of a circular economy
- Assessing the sustainability of circular practices
- Transformative policy for a circular economy
This will be a hybrid event taking place in London but with possibility to join online. For further details about the event programme, panellists and to book your place go to the event page.
Video contest
The Cresting International Short Film Competition calls for circular economy themed and attention grabbing videos to spread socio-environmental awareness. The team welcomes submissions of videos about circular economy initiatives in your neighbourhood, local community, city, company or household by 1 December 2021.