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Climate Watch

According to the World Resources Institute, the top three greenhouse gas emitters — China, the European Union and the United States — contribute 41.5% of total global emissions, while the bottom 100 countries only account for only 3.6%. Collectively, the top 10 emitters account for over two-thirds of global GHG emissions.

The world cannot successfully fight climate change without significant action from the top 10 emitters.

WRI created a set of interactive charts called “Climate Watch” for tracking the progress of the Paris agreement.

I will discuss in details each of the key polluters status and pledges in the next article.

Meanwhile, I encourage you to check the charts and take responsible actions in your daily lives.

#climatechange #sustainability

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New Christmas arrivals

Here are my “stay-at-home” holidays reads. Get inspired!

1. Mars
The lockdown-enabled hobby of mine. I have literally opened my horizons and wish you to use this time to learn something new. Like our neighbor, planet Mars!

2. Subprime Nation, a very detailed and thorough analysis of the world working laboriously to re-install the US as a global power. Are we repeating the same mistakes, making poor nations poorer and the US stronger and richer than ever before ring now?

3. Atomic Habits
Self-development book. An easy to follow guide on changing yourself into a better version of you. Highly recommend.

4. Chimpanzee politics
The story of power and social life of apes in captivity. Can’t wait to see the parallels with human society. Excited! Got it today as a birthday gift.

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The Future is Faster Than You Think!

I’m fascinated by this book!

Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler have assembled all the rapturous ideas that are already transforming our lives and even ourselves.

Very interesting chapters on the transformation of shopping and advertisement.

Also the Turbo-boost chapter makes me think that no current market leader nor current leading technologies are going to be there still in our lifetime, giving space to new actors.

The 6D’s technological change (digitalization, deception, disruption, demonetization, dematerialization, democratization) will continue disrupting and transforming all parts of our lives.

Therefore, there is plenty of opportunities to re-invent, re-discover and re-imagine. The jump from an idea to the market dominance is incredibly quick now and will become even faster in the nearest future.

I highly recommend this book

Great job, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler!

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Five steps towards circular business model success

Click on the image below to read the article.

Thank you, Mark Lancelott for sharing this knowledge.
Indeed, it is rather challenging for most businesses to transition towards circular economy as “How we’ve always done things” is their only viable business model.

Yet, many companies, working in linear, cradle-to-grave economy adopt circular measures in the fields of product design, waste or GHG neutrality.
These are the pioneers of the transformational wave. We will see more of these trends until they become the new norm.

Scaling circularity is the challenge that we all need to get our heads around.

#circulareconomy

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The art of Impossible

Steven Kotler sharing his incredible insights in this excerpt from the Art of Impossible. Worth investing 8 minutes of your time!

“While a good mood is the starting point for heightened creativity, a daily gratitude practice, a daily mindfulness practice, regular exercise and a good night’s rest remain the best recipe that anyone has yet found for increasing happiness”.

3 science-based strategies to increase your creativity 
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RE-manufature!

European Commission’s Remanufacture Report 2015 states that currently, less than 2% of all produced products are remanufactured. Nevertheless, this sector employs 194,000 people and accounts for almost 30Bln€ in revenue in EU alone.

In December 2019, the EU Green Deal has been announced. It was then adopted by France and Germany in March 2020 turbo-boosting the remanufacturing industry by imposing significant limitation on product-to-waste business models and incentifying remanufacturing.

For example, on February 10th 2020, France has adopted their own “Anti-waste law for the circular economy”. Among it’s five core objectives, part 4 specifically focuses on remanufacturing:

1. Apply a repairability index and make progress towards a durability index
2. Facilitate repair and promote the use of used spare parts
3. Extend the legal guarantee of conformity
4. Introduce mandatory information on the duration of computer and phone operating software updates
5. Create repair funds
6. Enable the use of 3D printing for the repair of objects”

#remanufacture#EUGreenDeal#Antiwaste

(image source: thesamba.com)

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Eco-trends in Home cleaning industry

LSA published a good summary of current trends in home cleaning industry. Consumer and legislative pressure on the manufacturers result in a big number of promising initiatives to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic.

Key eco-trends in this industry today are:
* Adding recycled content to the packaging (unfortunately, a short-term PR stunt, like substituting sugar with fructose in a milkshake)
* Selling solutions in bulk (promising idea, lacking convenience and scale today)
* collecting plastic back (most promising way to close the supply chain loop, conflict of interest with existing waste-to-value actors)
* DIY (the niche of the niche, like fax machines 🙂

Worth mentioning also non-plastic eco-trends:
* water/waste reduction (concentrated or recycled solutions)
* ecological and non-petrol based (renewable) solutions

Looking for ways to avoid plastic in the first place should be the first priority.

Equally important priority is a shopper education. More budgets should be spent raising awareness of the plastics threat and new solutions.

The link to the article: https://www.lsa-conso.fr/coup-de-balai-sur-le-plastique,361618

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New reads

Here are two exciting books I am finishing now. Quite unorthodox. Written by a historian Yuval Harari. Highly recommend!

Some of my favorite quotes from Homo Deus:

“History isn’t a single narrative, but thousands of alternative narratives. Whenever we choose to tell one, we are also choosing to silence others.”

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge, which opened up the scientific road to progress.”

Some of my favorite quotes from the 21 lessons:

“If you cannot afford to waste time, you will never find the truth.”

“The very sophisticated artificial intelligence of computers might only serve to empower the natural stupidity of humans.”

By manufacturing a never-ending stream of crises, a corrupt oligarchy can prolong its rule indefinitely.”