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CSCP News | Posted July 10, 2018

CSCP Shares Experiences With Voluntary Agreements as Policy Instruments for Food Waste Reduction

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Picture the great pyramid of Khufu, Giza – it is estimated to weigh about 6 million tonnes. Now imagine fourteen such pyramids, and you are still four tonnes short of the food waste produced annually in the EU alone. The EU REFRESH Project sets out to find and share information and best practice on food […]

CSCP News | Posted July 10, 2018

Call for Collaboration – Digital Responsibility as Part of Corporate Strategy

Digitalisation fundamentally alters the way we do business and how we interact with one another and with our environment. This challenges all of us to shape this new playing field to enable a good life for everyone. There are great opportunities for organisations as well as for sustainability, but with them, we also face new […]

CSCP News | Posted July 9, 2018

Wissenschaftsjahr is Coming to Your City – Plan Your Visit at Our Popup Dialogue-Centers

@durchblickpopup

What does tomorrow’s working world look like? Will we partner with robots to do the computationally expensive work so we can follow our creative instincts? Will we connect with colleagues from all over the world in virtual offices while never leaving the comfort of our homes? What new jobs will be created when data and […]

CSCP News | Posted July 8, 2018

A Big Step for a Climate-Friendly Future for North Rhine-Westphalia, One Final Step for the ILoNa Project

The logistics sector has enormous potential for incorporating practices that take into consideration the social and ecological aspects of all steps along the way. Over the course of three years, our ILoNa Project looked at the interaction of customer behavior and logistics services and worked out the future challenges for the sector on its way […]

CSCP News | Posted June 27, 2018

Apply Now! “Sharing and the City”, the Interdisciplinary Autumn Academy in Wuppertal on 1 – 5 October 2018

What can sharing contribute to a more sustainable lifestyle, future work patterns and local consumption patterns in cities? What is the potential for sustainable business? The participants of this year’s academy will discuss these and other questions while developing creative new concepts. ‘Sharing’ has become a trend in many parts of Europe and has been […]

Community News | Posted June 25, 2018

EU Plastics Strategy Opens Doors for Rethinking Business Models

150 000 to 500 000 tonnes of plastic waste are dumped in the oceans yearly – from the EU alone*. And this only accounts for a small percentage of worldwide plastic litter, as 80% of all plastic waste enters the oceans from Asia. While we are watching the large plastic vortices in the ocean, perhaps […]

CSCP News | Posted June 7, 2018

How to Future-proof Your Products and Services and Become a Sustainability Trailblazer

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While we offer a variety of Think and Do Services to all actors in society, we have created fact sheets for your organisations and municipalities to get a quick and clear overview of our top tools to future-proof your products and services through procurement strategies, holistic impact assessments, sustainable portfolios and business model innovation. Our […]

CSCP News | Posted June 6, 2018

Kompetenzzentrum eStandards Pilot Project: Where Should Used Backpacks Go?

@ZukunftDigital

It is not uncommon for customers to call FOND OF, the backpack company from Cologne known for brands like Ergobag, Satch or Aevor, asking something along the lines of: “My daughter has an Ergobag for primary school, but it has been up in the attic for several years now, unused. We don’t need it anymore. […]

CSCP News | Posted June 5, 2018

Increasing the Efficiency of Sugar in Energy Processes in Pakistan

Bagasse, a waste of the sugar industry, is used to produce electricity for the factory where it’s generated or fed into the domestic energy grid. This process is highly variable and inefficient. The productivity and efficiency of generating electricity from bagasse varies. Inefficient technologies account for higher energy consumption and a waste of energy resources. […]

CSCP News | Posted May 17, 2018

Meet Us at the BCI 2018 Global Cotton Conference and Discuss How to Scale Impact Through Collaboration 26 – 28 June 2018

@BCICotton

At the BCI 2018 Global Cotton Conference in Brussels on 27 – 28 June 2018, the global cotton sector is coming together to discuss opportunities for collaboration for a sustainable future for the material. Join us and don’t miss the CSCP’s Cristina Fedato’s key note on future trends for supply chains in the textile sector. […]