The Great Transition to a Green and Circular Economy: Climate Nexus and Sustainability [Hardcover]

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 todays linear economy, make businesses ready for the future, and create a society that no longer pushes the planet beyond its limits.

PART I: Introducing the need for a Green and Circular Economy.- Chapter 1. The Anthropocene Age and a Sustainable Living.- Chapter 2. Climate Change and Energy Consumption.- Chapter 3. Land use and the spread of humans.- Chapter 4. Resource scarcity.- Chapter 5. The green transition and a new market situation.- Chapter 6. EU Legislation to a Green Economy.- PART II: Climate Nexus  the nexus between climate neutrality and sustainability.- Chapter 7. Introduction to Climate Nexus.- Chapter 8. Energy transition.- Chapter 9. The transition to a Circular Economy.- Chapter 10. Transition to sustainable public and individual transport.- Chapter 11. Transition to sustainable land use, Agriculture and Wild Nature.- Chapter 12. Driving the Climate Nexus  people and money.- PAlC0