WORKING PAPER - Circular economy as a climate strategy: current knowledge and

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WORKING PAPER - Circular economy as a climate strategy: current knowledge and

1 Nov 2022

Circular economy We invite governments, businesses, philanthropies, NGOs, strategies can help relieve the material management pressure on multilaterals and researchers to join the discussion and act both the input and output ends, hence making the clean energy collaboratively, to make circularity contribute most effectively transition more feasible and sustainable. [...] On the other hand, the knowledge base still needs to estimated that even if all existing pledges and targets in the latest be advanced to agree on the magnitude and timeline of these NDC submissions are fully achieved, in 2030 there will still be benefits, to assess and balance potential trade-offs, as well as a substantial gap of 25 Gt CO2e between actual emissions and to understand and manage th. [...] For biomass materials, the IPCC estimates that the in many different ways, including the energy used to power Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector is machinery and industrial facilities that extract and process the responsible for about 22% of total net global greenhouse gas materials, emissions released during the process of extracting or emissions—nearly 13 Gt CO2e (IPCC 2019). [...] The World Circular economy as a climate strategy: current knowledge and calls-to-action | 7 Resources Institute estimates that slowing and shifting growth in be needed to reduce food loss and waste, but the benefits are food demand, including more sustainable diets and reduced food expected to outweigh the drawbacks (FAO 2019), especially if loss and waste, could reduce emissions from agriculture. [...] Some of the differences 2.2.6 Electronics in scope, such as material substitution and natural housing solutions,18 have substantial impacts on greenhouse gas emis- Although electronics17 are not yet considered a predominant sions and may explain the large variations on the magnitude contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, the sector’s of the benefits across the reports.
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