{"id":688,"date":"2017-06-15T14:27:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T18:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=688"},"modified":"2017-06-15T14:27:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T18:27:57","slug":"from-the-web-the-circular-economy-enters-the-world-stage-with-finland-leading-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/06\/15\/from-the-web-the-circular-economy-enters-the-world-stage-with-finland-leading-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: The circular economy enters the world stage, with Finland leading the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-689\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-15-at-11.18.48-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1104\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-15-at-11.18.48-AM.png 1104w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-15-at-11.18.48-AM-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-15-at-11.18.48-AM-768x449.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-15-at-11.18.48-AM-1024x599.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-15-at-11.18.48-AM-500x293.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Saving the planet might sound like reason enough to change our ways. But the circular economy is as much about creating value, profits and jobs.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, a circular economy could bring estimated net savings of \u20ac600bn (\u00a3523bn) to European companies. In <strong>Finland<\/strong> alone circular solutions <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/media.sitra.fi\/2017\/02\/28142449\/Selvityksia100.pdf\">could provide \u20ac2bn-3bn (\u00a31.7bn-2.6bn) added value annually<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finland is at the forefront of the shift to a circular economy.\u00a0Leaders and experts from 90 countries meeting at the <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sitra.fi\/en\/projects\/world-circular-economy-forum-2017\/#wcef2017\">World Circular Economy Forum<\/a> in Helsinki this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/global-development-professionals-network\/2017\/jun\/06\/the-circular-economy-enters-the-world-stage-with-finland-leading-the-way\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<em>(via The Guardian)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Saving the planet might sound like reason enough to change our ways. But the circular economy is as much about creating value, profits and jobs. For instance, a circular economy could bring estimated net savings of \u20ac600bn (\u00a3523bn) to European companies. In Finland alone circular solutions could provide \u20ac2bn-3bn (\u00a31.7bn-2.6bn) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/06\/15\/from-the-web-the-circular-economy-enters-the-world-stage-with-finland-leading-the-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: The circular economy enters the world stage, with Finland leading the way&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-b6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}