The Great Transition to a Green and Circular Economy

The green transition is the way to a sustainable and fair planet, and necessary to secure supply chains, deliver predictable prices, and ensure access to raw materials despite resource scarcity through sustainable production and consumption.

This book provides broad, essential insights into the main elements of the green transition, circular economy, and sustainability. Sustainability and the green transition will mean new market conditions for businesses. Companies will be subject to new legislation at the corporate and product level alike. They will need to meet new requirements, e. g. , having to provide a tremendous amount of new non-financial ESG data to deliver transparency and traceability in the value chains of products and businesses.

The book aims to close the gaps between science, society, and business. To do so, it describes the complexity of sustainability and the need for a holistic approach. In addition, it provides solutions, tools and methods to transform today's linear economy, make businesses ready for the future, and create a society that no longer pushes the planet beyond its limits.

PART I: Introducing the need for a Green and Circular Economy. - Chapter 1. The Anthropocene Age and a Sustainable Living. - Chapter 2. Climate Change and Energy Consumption. - Chapter 3. Land use and the spread of humans. - Chapter 4. Resource scarcity. - Chapter 5. The green transition and a new market situation. - Chapter 6. EU Legislation to a Green Economy. - PART II: Climate Nexus the nexus between climate neutrality and sustainability. - Chapter 7. Introduction to Climate Nexus. - Chapter 8. Energy transition. - Chapter 9. The transition to a Circular Economy. - Chapter 10. Transition to sustainable public and individual transport. - Chapter 11. Transition to sustainable land use, Agriculture and Wild Nature. - Chapter 12. Driving the Climate Nexus people and money. - PART III: Methods and Tools for the Transition to a Circular and green Economy - Tools and Methods for companies. - Chapter 13. Introduction to part III. - Chapter 14. Materiality Assessment. - Chapter 15. Changing company climate impacts in scope 1+2. - Chapter 16. Method to transform to a circular business model (scope 3). - Chapter 17. Developing a Sustainability Roadmap. - Chapter 18. Summary.