Dr. Vivian Frick, Prof. Andrea Carolina Cardoso Díaz (University of Magdalena), Johanna Sydow (Germanwatch), Andrea Vetter (Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie) and Almut Nagel (Europäische Kommission)
Does social prosperity always have to be linked to resource consumption? Digitalisation holds the promise of being able to break such a link and lead to a genuine circular economy. At the same time, digitalisation itself eats up vast amounts of resources. Which economic models will lead us into the circular economy?
Does social prosperity always have to be linked to resource consumption? Digitalisation holds the promise of being able to break such a link and lead to a genuine circular economy. The sharing economy offers interesting approaches here in the areas of reusing, repairing and recycling. At the same time, digitalisation itself eats up vast amounts of resources. Market concentrations fuelled by digitalisation damage regional economic cycles and socio-ecological innovations. With the Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP), the EU Commission has presented a package of measures that is to be concretised and implemented in the coming years. How can it strengthen a digital circular economy and lead digitalisation itself into the circular economy? This section also asks the big economic questions: Which economic models will lead us into the circular economy? Which economic sectors will have to shrink, which ones might have to grow? Representatives from theory and practice will discuss these questions.