We are delighted to announce that Greater London has joined our Network as a Strategic Lover. The partnership will concentrate on scaling round financial system alternatives to satisfy vital metropolis difficulties which includes the COVID-19 restoration, economic enhancement, and local weather alter, as perfectly as look for to encourage a technology of leaders and citizens to redesign the long run.

The Foundation’s Strategic Associates now include things like international firms, philanthropic organisations, and two metropolitan areas — São Paulo and New York Town. With London, we welcome a third world wide metropolis with committed city leaders and engaged citizens that can generate momentum by producing and enabling the situations essential for a round economic climate to arise and prosper. &#13

London is a earth leading town in the changeover to a round overall economy and as this kind of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has been performing with the Better London Authority and ReLondon on different strategic jobs because 2015. London has been a member of our community considering that 2015 and engaged in the Food Initiative as a Flagship Town and the New Plastics Financial state Initiative as a participant. The city has also experienced numerous touchpoints throughout different other Basis pursuits this sort of as the Disruptive Innovation Competition (ed. the precedent of The Round Economic climate Show) and the Make Trend Circular Initiative.

In the yr of COP26 and as we embark on a eco-friendly recovery from COVID-19, it has hardly ever been more vital to target on how we use sources sustainably.

The Mayor has fully commited to producing London a zero-carbon city by 2030 and his Environmentally friendly New Deal supports projects and produces positions that equip Londoners and organizations to profit from the possibilities offered by the transition to a zero-carbon foreseeable future. The London Prepare incorporates a entire world-initial need for all significant-scale developments to include a round overall economy assertion in their setting up submission and the Mayor is proud to be investing in London’s environmental and circular overall economy businesses by means of his Green New Deal fund.

In London, we’re delighted to be taking a primary position by joining the Ellen Macarthur Foundation’s Network along with São Paulo and New York City as Strategic Husband or wife Metropolitan areas. This builds on our current work with the Foundation and ReLondon to develop a extra sustainable city food method as a result of the Meals Flagship Initiative, chopping unnecessary foodstuff waste and minimizing the local weather impacts of our meals program. We look ahead to working collectively to endorse a resource-economical long term and embed circular economic system rules into our way of lifestyle.

– Shirley Rodrigues, London’s Deputy Mayor for Environment and Electrical power

As towns appear to get better from the results of the COVID-19 pandemic, the round economic system provides a methods options framework to tackle the worldwide difficulties they also experience, these types of as local weather improve, biodiversity decline, squander, and pollution.

To unlock all the economic, environmental, and modern society-vast rewards, metropolitan areas will have to have to try new factors and pioneer new collaborations that reimagine how we make, eat and manage components and means.&#13

Cities are the engine area of the circular economic system. London is having a guide in groundbreaking the change needed to deal with the CO2 emissions connected with the carbon footprint of the things we consume.

Our town presently has a fledgling but burgeoning round financial system designed up of organizations and group enterprises working with ground breaking reduce, re-use, mend, hire, share and recycle models of doing the job and this strategic partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Basis will aid us encourage and empower even a lot more motion by boroughs, enterprises and citizens to make transformational changes in their guidelines, techniques and behaviours.

– Wayne Hubbard, CEO, ReLondon (formerly the London Waste & Recycling Board – LWARB)