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'Circularity gap': How fostering a circular economy could slash global emissions by over a third

Business Green

Housing, including commercial and industrial buildings, generates around 13.5Gt of emissions every year, the report estimates, consuming vast quantities of virgin resources and relying on the abundant use of carbon-intensive materials such as cement and steel, while also creating significant emissions from heating and cooling.

Waste 101
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'We want to make the bus cool': Inside Arrival, the $13bn British electric vehicle start-up

Business Green

The spectacular decline of WeWork, or the crashing valuation of e-scooter company Lime, are just two cautionary tales that have underscored the risks involved for any business that thinks it has worked out how to disrupt long established operating models. We want to make the bus cool," he says. "We

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'We want to make the bus cool': Inside Arrival, the $13bn British electric vehicle start-up

Business Green

The spectacular decline of WeWork, or the crashing valuation of e-scooter company Lime, are just two cautionary tales that have underscored the risks involved for any business that thinks it has worked out how to disrupt long established operating models. We want to make the bus cool," he says. "We