RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
The pressures of a bigger population, economic growth and climate change are placing incredible stress on finite, non-renewable resources, such as fossil fuels and minerals. The objective of constant growth will lead to exponentially increased consumption of these resources if nothing is changed. Chemistry can play a critical role in providing the tools for maximizing the sustainable use of renewable resources in production, as well as in enabling sustainable recovery, reuse and recycling in the consumption cycles.
The scope of the Resource Efficiency theme at the World Chemical Summit is the ways in which the chemical industry can provide solutions and should develop to help to:
MARTIN STUCHTEY
Founder and Managing Partner - SYSTEMIQ
Dr. Martin R. Stuchtey is founder and managing partner of SYSTEMIQ Ltd, a company that develops new markets and assets in the sustainability space. Before founding SYSTEMIQ Martin has worked for the McKinsey & Co for twenty years. There he served clients in a range of sectors, from transportation to energy and infrastructure. In 2006, Martin co-founded McKinsey's Sustainability Practice, working with numerous corporate, government and social sector clients on the challenges of climate change, water scarcity, ocean degradation and resource depletion at large. Much of his work was dedicated to circular industrial systems. He initiated – together with Ellen MacArthur – the Circular Economy Initiative at the World Economic Forum.
RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
- 5 OCT
- 11.40 - 12.00
- World Chemical Summit Auditorium PAVILLION 2
