Circularity

Learn more about the UNEP approach to and experience in building circularity: click here to access the UNEP circularity platform

The UNEP circularity platform provides an understanding of the circularity concept, its scope and how it contributes to promoting sustainable consumption and production patterns.

As outlined by Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director, circularity and sustainable consumption and production are essential to delivering on every multilateral agreement, from the Sustainable Development Goals, to the Paris Agreement to the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. They are essential to a sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Circularity builds upon value retention loops, as shown on the UNEP circularity approach below:

Read more on the guiding principle Reduce by design, as well as value-retention processes: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Refurbish, Remanufacture, Repurpose and Recycle.