PATHWAYS TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY - Port of Rotterdam

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The challenge for the planet and its peopleThe challenge Rockström presented to governments,businesses and the community – 40 years after the Club ofRome began discussions on limits to growth – was to bringhuman activities back within the safe operating spaces ofour planetary systems. Meeting Rockström’s challenge canonly be achieved through an improvement in resourceefficiency; improvement that needs to be radical in theplanetary systems that have already passed outside theirsafe operating spaces as well as those where business asusual would lead to a similar outcome.– Human activities havealready moved outsidethe safe operating spacesof three planetarysystems.Furthermore, transformative action is going to beneeded – human activities need to be rethought and reengineered.Change of this magnitude is not just aboutmaking incremental improvements in eco-efficiency (i.e.traditional productivity gains that can be thought of as‘doing things better’). Instead, businesses also need to ‘dobetter things’, by acting in ways that create step changesin productivity through the redesign of processes. This willrequire a focus on eco-effectiveness (i.e. a transition to asystem where waste is seen as resource to biological ortechnological processes).10/73PORT OF ROTTERDAM / RABOBANKPATHWAYS TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Figure 1: Human activities havemoved outside planetaryboundariesThe globe represents the proposedsafe operating space for nineplanetary systems. The wedgesrepresent an estimate of the currentposition for each variable.CHEMICALPOLLUTION(not yet quantified)CLIMATECHANGEOCEANACIDFICATIONSource: Johan Rockström et al. Nature461, 472-475 (24 September 2009) andIda Kubiszewski/Solutions.ATMOSPHERICAEROSOL LOADING(not yet quantified)STRATOSPHERICOZONE DEPLETIONBIODIVERSITYICSSBIOGEOCHEMISTRY:NITROGEN CYCLEBIOGEOCHEMISTRY:PHOSPHORUS CYCLECHANGE INLAND USEGLOBALFRESHWATER USE11/73PORT OF ROTTERDAM / RABOBANKPATHWAYS TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY
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