The Great Transition to a Green and Circular Economy
The green transition is the way to a sustainable and fair planet, and necessary to secure supply chains, deliver predictable prices, and ensure access to raw materials despite resource scarcity through sustainable production and consumption.
This book provides broad, essential insights into the main elements of the green transition, circular economy, and sustainability. Sustainability and the green transition will mean new market conditions for businesses. Companies will be subject to new legislation at the corporate and product level alike. They will need to meet new requirements, e.g., having to provide a tremendous amount of new non-financial ESG data to deliver transparency and traceability in the value chains of products and businesses.
The book aims to close the gaps between science, society, and business. To do so, it describes the complexity of sustainability and the need for a holistic approach. In addition, it provides solutions, tools and methods to transform today’s linear economy, make businesses ready for the future, and create a society that no longer pushes the planet beyond its limits.
Gitte Haar is based in Copenhagen (Denmark) and has advised corporations on transforming and preparing their businesses for the green and circular economy for the past 15 years.
She is a member of non-executive boards of several companies actively addressing the green transition and circular economy. Haar holds a degree in Accounting and Auditing from Copenhagen Business School and a degree in Biology/Agronomy from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She has previously served as an international management consultant at Arthur Andersen and Deloitte.
