The World Economic Forum partners with Circular Action Hub
New partnership to focus on advancing the circular economy through innovation and cross-sector relationships. The World Economic Forum (WEF) and BVRio’s Circular Action Hub (CAH) are collaborating to advance support for circular innovation around the world. The Forum’s Scale360° initiative creates much-needed connectivity across a wide range of stakeholders, including financiers, technologists, activists, public servants […]
Can Circular Credits help cities deal with waste?
Waste management is expensive business for municipalities around the world. This is especially true in low- and middle-income countries, where up to 20% of municipal budgets goes to waste collection. However, even though waste collection is frequently the biggest item in these budgets, it still remains chronically under-funded. The cost to governments to be able […]
Circular Guidance Note 1: No double counting
OUR APPROACH: LEARNING BY DOING The Circular Credits Mechanism (CCM) is guided by a set of Principles & Criteria to ensure the environmental and social integrity of the credits issued and the waste management systems of its users. Underpinning our approach is the principle of ‘learning by doing’. And that is because we recognise that […]
Inspirational women led recycling cooperatives: ACERJ
Born into a traditional family of waste pickers in Rio de Janeiro, Glória de Souza dos Santos, 45, has worked for over three decades in the recycling market. She was brought up in Laureano, a neighbourhood of Jardim Gramacho, the largest «recycling centre of the State of Rio de Janeiro», where together with her mother […]
BVRio launches Circular Action Hub
Waste leakage and particularly plastic pollution is an alarming global problem, but the solutions must be delivered locally. Circular Action Hub connects global sources of finance with ambitious and scalable local projects to support and accelerate circular waste management action via performance-based payments for an inclusive circular economy. The Hub is the world’s first online […]
