The Centre for Sustainable Business does research, teaching, and outreach on the behaviors, business models and technologies that promote sustainable business.
ESG reporting is crucial, in order to make real progress towards a sustainable future. Hussnain Bashir and Ibrahim Pelja are therefore starting a new master´s course. `The most important element of the course being that companies need to be transparent and honest´, Bashir says.
Succeeding with green products and services is hard, but systematic business model experimentation can make it possible, argue Hussnain Bashir, Sveinung Jørgensen, Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen and Siv Skard in LSE Business Review.
The Norwegian Research Council acknowledge the work done by the #sustainX partners, promoting the project as a best practice case for innovative collaboration between business and academia. Among several ongoing project activities, WasteIQ recently launched a pilot at Vestkanten Storsenter implementing a data-driven recycling system involving 112 stores and restaurants.
Norway has a circularity level of only 2.4 percent, according to the recently published Circularity Gap Report Norway 2020. This indicates that over 97 percent of the nation's consumed resources are not recycled. Lars Jacob and Sveinung explain how organizations can implement circular principles by narrowing, slowing and closing resource loops.
