Circular Economy Transformation (CET)

The Circular Economy Transformation initiative connects senior leaders from business, government, civil society and academia to accelerate the shift to circular economic models. It brings together leadership communities, produces actionable insights and offers a trusted partnership infrastructure, helping decision-makers advance productive, profitable and planet-positive circular value chains.

Our objectives

Shape

Bring apex leadership together to elevate and champion circularity as an industrial and competitiveness priority and shape a global action agenda.

Understand

Develop practical data, tools and approaches that help decision-makers identify opportunities and embed circular models in their value chains.

Act

Offer a trusted platform to build multistakeholder partnerships and accelerate implementation of circularity solutions across sectors, regions and national contexts.

Our workstreams on green growth pathways

Circular Transformation of Industries (CTI)

A joint venture between the Forum's Centre for Nature and Climate and the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains, supported by Bain & Company as knowledge partner. CTI brings together companies and public-sector actors across 10+ industries to shape a sector agnostic industrial circularity agenda, exchange best-in-class approaches and catalyse value chain partnerships at scale.

Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP)

Brings together national action, global collaboration and innovation to accelerate plastics circularity. It includes the Global Plastic Action Partnership’s (GPAP) network of 25 National Plastic Action Partnerships, connects country-level experience with global plastics discussions, and advances technology- and AI-enabled solutions across the plastics value chain.

Exploring New Frontiers

Advances emerging opportunities in circular value chains across textiles, electronics and other materials and exploring regional cooperation frameworks as a circularity catalyst.

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