The Circular Conversation is an action-focused knowledge sharing platform
We facilitate cross-sector and cross-border collaboration to design circular water, energy, and food systems that:
• Secure critical natural resources
• Enable resilient circular economies
• Unlock win-win cooperation
Approach
The Circular Conversation motivates cooperation and knowledge sharing to accelerate the transition from linear to circular water, energy and food systems:
Unpacks complexities associated with this transition
Motivates the development, testing and uptake of new technology innovation
Informs forward-thinking policy and regulations
Raises whole-of-society awareness
We share information through virtual and in-person events and workshopping sessions, interactive podcasts, and regular updates shared on our platform.
Era of Change
The systems by which the world operates are undergoing fundamental structural change.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries, financial systems face disruption, economies are reordering, security alliances are shifting, and climate change is multiplying environmental, economic and security risks.
Climate change is placing massive stress upon the interconnected water, energy and food systems upon which our collective health and common security depend.
The speed, scale and complexity of change has created a swirling cocktail of risk.
However, change also creates an opportunity to bridge boundaries of the past – spurring new thinking, cooperation and innovation to create resilient circular economies of the future.
Transforming to a Circular Economy
The linear economy — take, make, use, waste — incentivizes extraction, exploitation, and win-lose competition over finite resources, fueling lose-lose conflicts that threaten all of humanity.
There is an urgent need to transform our extraction-based linear economy into a knowledge-based circular economy that incentivises ecosystem regeneration and win-win cooperation to secure future peace.
Resources of life
The need for secure access to the resources of life – water, energy and food – has underpinned every economy in human history.
This continues today.
The speed and scale of change today has exposed the fragility of the linear economy system – and its inability to sustain access to these critical resources.
By adapting our economies to harness the circular flows of water and energy as they occur in nature, we can lay the foundation for resilient circular economies.
In today’s turbulent times, the need to secure the interlinked resources of life has emerged as a rallying call to unite people around a new vision of the future:
