Business, Services, Policies Section Explained
In this section, you will find guides to build sustainable services and business shaped around sustainable design solutions, regulations that need to be taken into account, and tools for assessing…
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03.Businesses, Services, Policies
Circular Economy Toolkit: Resources for an Evolving World
“With the vast number of possibilities for creating value out of the Circular Economy and cradle-to-cradle thinking, it can be challenging to assess all the options. The Circular Economy Toolkit…
The Circularity Indicators
“The Circularity Indicators Project provides companies with a methodology and tools to assess how well a product or company performs in the context of a circular economy, allowing companies to estimate…
Circular by Design: Products in the circular economy
“This report explores the circular economy from a product perspective, applying a systemic approach and transition theory. Drivers of product design and usage are discussed in the context of emerging consumption…
SVID Sustainability Guide
The Sustainability Guide provides companies, designers and higher education institutions inspiration and tools to work sustainably. The web is a valuable source for those who want to learn more about…
Eco-indicator 99 Manual for Designers
“Eco-indicator 99 is one of the most widely used impact assessment methods in LCA. It is the successor of Eco-indicator 95, the first endpoint impact assessment method, which allowed the…
Service Design Toolkit
“Service design is a method for improving the quality of your service. Those improvements are directed at both the users and staff of your organization. Innovating in services is not…
The Business Model Innovation Grid
“This grid aims to inspire businesses to reconceive how they operate and to become more future proof. To grab the opportunities of a sustainable future, innovations need to introduce environmental and social…
8 Business cases for the circular economy
“The macro-opportunities associated with implementing the circular economy are clear. Now, companies need to know how circularity will impact their business as well as specific industry or sector opportunities. Summarizing…
Nederland Circulair! Best Practices
Business practice cases on Circular Economy in the Netherlands, shown on map. Clicking on a pin on the map takes you to the page of each case, providing detailed information on…
Best Practice Examples of Circular Business Models
“Best practice examples of circular business models are presented in this report. The purpose is to inform and inspire interested readers, in particular companies that aspire to examine the potentials…
100% Open Innovation Toolkit
“This 30-piece toolkit covers the whole open innovation journey from setting a strategy for collaboration to implementing mutually beneficial business models. It helps to make the case for open innovation…
Circulator: The Circular Business Models Mixer
“The Circulator is a project funded by EIT Raw Materials aimed at supporting aspiring entrepreneurs in making conscious strategic choices regarding the sustainability of their business model and value proposition. The project offers a web-based…
Circular Economy Business Toolkit
“The circular economy is an alternative to the predominant linear “take-make-dispose” economy of production and consumption, which relies on large quantities of relatively cheap materials and inputs, and produces a…
A literature and practice review to develop sustainable business model archetypes
“Eco-innovations, eco-efficiency and corporate social responsibility practices define much of the current industrial sustainability agenda. While important, they are insufficient in themselves to deliver the holistic changes necessary to achieve…
UNEP Eco-Innovation Manual
“Eco-innovation is the development and application of a business model, shaped by a new business strategy that incorporates sustainability throughout all business operations based on life cycle thinking and in cooperation with partners…
Models for Impact: The Business Model Design Game
“Models of Impact is a role-playing and ideation game that makes it easy (and fun!) to generate new, sustainable, business models. Our digital download is available on a pay-what-you-want basis, and…
Rethinking finance in a circular economy
“Recently, the international discussion about sustainability has taken a new course through the development of the concept of the circular economy. The circular economy goes beyond the intention of not…
The Circular Economy Business Model Toolkit
“In partnership with Unilever, we have developed a toolkit identifying 10 circular business model archetypes. These archetypes distil our long-term research into circular business models and include case studies we have…
CFDA Guide to Sustainable Strategies & Sustainable Strategies Toolkit
“The CFDA Guide to Sustainable Strategies, authored by Domenica Leibowitz, seeks to provide a “how to” overview for sustainable fashion. The guide’s goal is to take the complex idea of sustainability…
ISO 14000 family – Environmental management
“The ISO 14000 family of standards provides practical tools for companies and organizations of all kinds looking to manage their environmental responsibilities. ISO 14001:2015 and its supporting standards such as ISO 14006:2011 focus…
ISO 26000 – Social responsibility
“Business and organizations do not operate in a vacuum. Their relationship to the society and environment in which they operate is a critical factor in their ability to continue to…
Climate: Get the Big Picture
“This guide seeks to provide a starting point for newcomers to help them see the ‘big picture’ of the United Nations (UN) climate change regime, which is at the forefront…
