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Since the 1950s, global plastics production has skyrocketed, while only a fraction of plastics are being recycled. Today, our consumption of plastics is 360 million metric tonnes per year, and this figure is set to double in the next 20 years. This enormous plastics mountain poses a major threat to human health, nature and the environment.

Every year in October, the city of Eindhoven hosts the biggest design event in Northern Europe: Dutch Design Week. With ideas from over 2,600 designers, the event showcases the practicality and culture of Dutch design. Each year more and more solutions for solving global challenges are on display under a specific…

Polluted water and air, overfished oceans, depleted fuel supplies and exhausted soil. With more and more people using our natural resources, the planet is reaching its limits. We need to be at our most creative to make the best of the resources available for the sake of life as we know it. Pioneers of the…

In November 2021, we presented the Netherlands to the UAE, the wider Gulf region and the global community at Expo 2020 Dubai. The March mission focuses on integrated and sustainable future-proof solutions for water, energy and the circular economy.

India, the world’s second-largest producer of rice, is sitting on a mountain of raw material, without realistic options to cash in on it. So each year, farmers burn around 90 million tons of rice straw, releasing a considerable amount of C02 in the process. Indian and Dutch public and private organisations have created the Biomass India consortium to convert this waste into climate-positive products.

Seventeen goals for a better world. The SDGs serve as a compass for countries and businesses worldwide in addressing the most urgent challenges of our times. In the Netherlands, the 2022 SDG Action Days theme is ‘Turn it Around’. Because addressing global challenges takes a paradigm shift: instead of being part…

In the podcast series Entrepreneurial Journeys, eight entrepreneurs share their dreams and efforts to help make the world a better place, today and in the future.

The Circularity Gap Report 2023 was presented in Amsterdam during the World Economic Forum in mid-January. Unfortunately the news is not good. Circularity has fallen from 9.1 percent in 2018 to 7.2 percent today. That means proportionatly less raw materials are entering the circular economy when we need that figure to…

Today, people worldwide buy more clothes, due to rising availability of cheaper brands. But while 'fast fashion' makes dressing with style more affordable, it comes with a huge price tag for our planet. According to the World Economic Forum, the fashion industry produces 10% of all humanity's carbon emissions. It is…