An impact economy promotes the durability, reparability, and recyclability of products and resources to stay within planetary boundaries. Our world needs circular business models, infrastructure, materials, and design practices that consider workers’ and human rights.
Impact measurement and reporting
Measuring impact supports businesses and their partners in gaining insight into the effects of business activities on people and planet. Sustainable material and resource use requires circular business models and transparency on impact of materials and industrial processes.
Impact management and strategy
To achieve the Impact Economy, the world must transition towards sustainable material & resource use. Respect for planetary boundaries & workers’ rights as well as durability, reparability, recyclability should be embedded in all life cycle phases. Integrating impact information in decision-making enables businesses to transition towards sustainable material and resource use.
Priority areas
Circularity
Renewables, clean and affordable energy, just transition, decarbonisation
Materials Use
Sustainable packaging, durability, biodiversity
Resource Management
Waste to resources, resource management
Global Value Chains
Impact of plastics, environmental impact, livelihoods & human health
Publications
DownloadScaling up the Beyond Chocolate initiative
This paper reports the scalability and long-term risks and benefits of the Beyond Chocolate initiative, a programme seven members of…
DownloadMaatschappelijke toetsing van overnames is nodig
Publication in Dutch Magazine ESB – Authors: Dr. Adrian de Groot Ruiz, Dr. Reinier de Adelhart Toorop and Dr. Prof….
DownloadThe true price of Dutch bread
In 2018, Bakkerij van Vessem wanted to have more insight into the true costs of their ‘Hollandsch Brood’.
DownloadTriodos Bank Annual Report 2023
Triodos Bank Annual Report 2023 helped the bank to understand and manage their impact for a fairer and more sustainable…
