The Regenerative Economy: Beyond Circularity
[This article originally appeared on my blog on Nov 27, 2019]
Keynote Presentation, September 24, 2019
Circular Economy Event, Confederação Nacional de Indústria (CNI)
São Paulo, Brazil
Presentation is in Portuguese. An English transcript follows.
Thank you, and good morning to everyone. Thank you to you all for being here today. I’m very pleased to be here with you today to speak about the regenerative economy.
I’d also like to thank the team from CNI for a voyage that has already been wonderful. It will be an interesting conversation with you exploring the idea of a regenerative economy, beyond a circular economy.
(1:22) If I am successful, my objective is just to plant a few seeds on the theme of the regenerative economy, and what it entails.
And so to explain a little bit: I have just one purpose, all day, all week, all year long. I have the purpose of supporting the transition to this regenerative economy.
So today I will speak a little bit about who I am and what gives me the right to be here speaking to you today. And then I will explain what I mean by “support the transition”. There were already several speakers earlier talking about a transition. Things are…
