About the guide
This guide is for managers and employees in e.g. business development, product design and management, procurement, and sustainability roles. It offers practical steps for companies to analyse their value chain, product portfolio and business model in order to scale circular climate solutions and fully integrate circularity into their strategic business functions.
Actioning the Exponential Business Playbook
The Exponential Business Playbook sets out a five-pillar climate strategy focusing on four pillars that need to be addressed in a company’s climate strategy to align with the 1.5 °C ambition.
The Circular Action Guide cuts across both pillars 2 and 3 to scale circular climate solutions. Pillar 2 focuses on actions a company should take to reduce its value chain emissions, including through “integrating circularity at the heart of all innovation and development processes.” But this guide also develops further an action to be taken under pillar 3, to “determine the business models, products and services for your sector that will be compatible with a net zero world.“
It provides a step-by-step guide for shifting from a linear to a circular value chain. Such a shift will involve the entire organisation, and companies will have to work in close collaboration with existing and new suppliers and customers to achieve this.
Key performance indicators (KPIs) should be integrated in your business and transition plans in order to drive the business to transform towards a net zero and circular value chain.
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Climate solutions
Find out more about our work on climate solutions, and the criteria we propose for qualifying what product or service is a climate solution.
Other guides under the 1.5°C Business Playbook
Under Pillar 2, reducing value chain emissions, the Supplier Action Guide takes a broader look at supply chain action. The Transportation Action Guide lays out how to reduce emissions from the transport of goods throughout the value chain. The Greening Cash Action Guide lays out actions for companies to reduce the indirect emissions from their financial supply chain.
Latest news
Exponential Roadmap Initiative to spotlight climate leadership at global fossil fuel transition conference
Soon, governments, businesses, and civil society will gather in Santa Marta, Colombia for a global conference focused on accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels. Co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, the conference brings together countries and stakeholders committed to advancing a just, orderly, and science-aligned transition.
Beyond Meat joins the Exponential Roadmap Initiative’s Climate Solutions Cluster
The Exponential Roadmap Initiative is pleased to welcome Beyond Meat as a new member, and recognises two of the company’s products as qualifying climate solutions under ERI’s Climate Solutions Framework.
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Miljö & Utveckling: Climate Solutions Framework – så blir produkten en verklig ”klimatlösning” [Swedish]
ERI’s Climate Solutions Framework defines what qualifies as a true climate solution. By setting science based, life cycle criteria, it helps distinguish products and services that genuinely replace high emission alternatives and drive system level decarbonisation. In this interview, Johan Falk explains why this shifts how businesses can approach the green transition.
