Harald Friedl is a global circular strategist and activist. He has been CEO of Circle Economy (2017-2020) where he co-initiated the global “Circularity Gap Report”. He also served in 2022 as “Austrian Circular Economy Accelerator” for the Ministry of Climate Action.
Despite the initial enthusiasm and efforts to transition towards circular models, recent data reveal a concerning decline in the global circularity rate. From 9.1% in 2018, the circularity rate...
Over decades, even centuries, since the boom of the Industrial Revolution, it has delivered tremendous living standards, wealth and comfortable lives to some people, in some parts of the world, at c...