Panel Discussion: 'Cut the waste! Industrial policy beyond materials'

Past Event

Date
 20 May 2025, 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Location
 Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School
34 Broad Street (corner of Holywell and Catte Streets), Oxford, OX1 3BD

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This event is organised by The Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre (TIDE), the Oxford Martin Programme on Rethinking Natural Resources (ReSET) and Oxford EARTH.

Industrial policy is making a comeback—but are we thinking green enough? While climate change and emissions dominates sustainability debates, what about the hidden material material waste and pollution? How can policymakers and industries move beyond narrow fixes to build truly circular and clean economies? What tensions and synergies exit?

This panel brings together experts in industrial strategy, sustainability, and economic policy to explore how to:

- Rethinking circularity as a industrial policy

- The politics and economics of product durability

- How the rental economy might affect waste management

- The mining cost of green transition and how to re-use minerals

- And the type of business and policy strategies to get us to a waste-less economy, in both high-income and developing nations!

Join us for a lively discussion on how to cut the waste, truly.

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