Nature-based Solution and Circular Economy

Nature-based Solution and

Circular Economy

Natural Based Solutions are defined as actions that are taken to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems, that address social challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits. The text defines natural-based solutions in a manner to tackle global problems with the aim to bring effective changes in all the levels simultaneously. The natural-based solutions emphasize the value of bottom-up policy influencing so as to establish an order that helps accomplish the different objectives on a significant scale. Although the goals are aimed at improving international living standards, there is a need to involve the national and local governments. As a result, there is a need to shift the existing policies and regulations that are necessary to straighten out from the very beginning to allow innovative projects to happen that cuts across sectors. After setting the programs in the field, there is a need to continually collect feedback on relevant policies across the different scales in the governments and thereby getting effective changes and then embedding the actual changes into the planning system.

Natural based solutions originate from the use the ecosystems and available resources to address societal challenges. These prompt actions that protect and sustainably manage and restore natural or modified ecosystems that address societal challenges effectively. They were established in a manner that creates an allowance for them to be adopted in conjunction with other intervention measures. Natural based solutions have several goals that intend to solve societal challenges such as climate change, food security, or natural disasters that affect the people on an international scale. Such purposes include the introduction of agroforestry systems, restoring wetlands, improving access to food, and supportive local trade policies. Natural based solutions borrow significantly from various ecosystems of the indigenous people because their belief systems incorporated traditional knowledge systems. This approach has formed the foundation of the origin of natural-based solutions because community works and group projects help facilitate change by capturing traditional methods and safeguarding future influence. This could reflect on the groups of small villages that are clubbed together because they had similar concerns such as floods and racism. This helps control and advance the disaster risk management plans from one level and virtually to the next level..

There have been several forums that could be used together with human-based solutions according to global economic and social forum surveys. This is achieved through the detailed attention paid to the whole process. Natural solutions always play a significant role in any stage of the protection, management, and restoration of the ecosystem. Natural based solutions are aimed at implementing global sustainable development goals that are focused on restoration and improvement by providing opportunities through the cooperation of nations. The world’s leading environmental scientists have turned to ecology to impact the globe with problems such as climate change profoundly. Although this is a problem that everyone knows plenty about how it threatens future generations, yet no one is sure of how they can get engaged in the change that could result in a tangible impact. The carbon released goes into land and oceans, but also a large chunk remains in the atmosphere and keeps building up. This causes the scale of the problem to grow, requiring natural-based solutions.

2. Circular Economy

The review notes that there are three crucial principles that drive the circular economy that is intended to combat the climate crisis. The circular economy links beings in a manner that allows materials to flow and make use of other beings waste, where the sun is the most dominant source of energy. The video explains that when living things die, they decompose into nutrients that return to the soil without causing pollution, thus balancing the cycle of life. But instead, human-made materials do not follow that same cycle but instead embrace a linear approach that sees many people take materials made products then dispose of them when the next item hits the market. As a result of the linear approach, we consume lots of resources that end up as waste and pollution that cannot be sustained in the long run. This goes to show that the world operates more efficiently, and by adapting, it would change the approaches we choose to advance so that we establish systems that are as efficient as the circular economy.

The video offered the adaption of a circular economy as a solution for the threatening climate crisis. This would require the adaption of biological approaches that can build capital from the waste instead of increasing expenses. This is where natural-based solutions come in handy because they rethink and redesign products and the manner they are packaged. An example of this strategy is the packaging of products in environmentally friendly biodegradable materials. Also it is important to note that there are materials that are not compostable as they are made of products such as plastics and metals. For such instances there is the need for recycling materials so that they are more useful often lasting beyond the shelf life of each of the materials. In this manner they adapt the circular economy where today’s waste is tomorrows resources through disassemble and regeneration thus dropping the throw away culture to which the globe has adopted.

When it gets to the concept of ownership is put in question by allowing people to rethink their view. This questions the ownership of technological items by listing them in a license from their production companies so that they end up back to their original forms. The system also reflects on a system in which materials are transported using renewable energy that is used to develop companies in the long term. The ownership concept has been adopted by several companies but for better efficiency the circular economy encourages the transformation of all the companies because they are interconnected and significantly affect the economy. Such advancements affect the energy used in the various operating systems through the provision of opportunities to adopt different perspectives. As a result there is a potential of reaching new horizons that improve the standards of living by solving the present problems through innovation and creativity to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems that address social challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits. as a result redesigning the ownership process impacts the quality of the future.

Section II

The essay below assesses rethinking the linear processes that exist in the city of Toronto Ontario which is a very populous area. The primary theme of the paper is achieving a circular economy for the various companies in the region. The ability of using already used products as resources enables the protection, sustainability, management, and restoration of natural or modified ecosystems that address social challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits. To improve the city of Toronto Ontario’s circular economy the report assembles several research opinions, policies and different practitioners’ opinions to unravel the intricacy of various aspects. The primary theme is the discussion on how to develop and sustain momentum around circular economy that would be more resilient than the blue and green economy. The arguments are intended to present innovative concepts that are intended to convince a vast array of stakeholders from a variety of companies, governments and startups. Circular economy has the potential to gather momentum in the city of Toronto Ontario because it has sustainable agendas and plans which improve the city’s economic agenda and focuses on innovation, business development, and job creation.

The approach for the agenda allows the city to capitalize on existing initiatives from sustainability to corporate social responsibility so as to make them more operational. It is evident that the private sectors would include circular economy principles in their business models. Local, regional and national governments have a significant role to play in the achievement of an efficient circular system. This is because governments and administrations face new sets of systematic challenges through reinvention to create new types of growth. This would result in job creation and face the materiality through the creation of awareness of the need to take care or recycle used materials. The city has a variety of infrastructures and economic sectors that are required to deploy circular economy strategies at a large scale. This could be achieved through focusing on the city’s circular economy from a design perspective which adds to the effort of recycling through the engagement of various businesses that provide a variety of services such as mobility and food.

Given that the city of Toronto Ontario is a densely populated area in a limited territory there is a need for design material and business model innovations that accelerate and facilitate the uptake of the city’s circular economy. One of the initiatives is the incorporation of metabolism studies that aid in the betterment of knowledge on the flows entering and exiting the city that assist in the identification of priority sectors upon which to focus. This includes the identification of the big players that have significant impact on the city’s economy and working with them to have a higher impact. Through such studies the city is able to identify promising ventures and provide funding and to help them grow. This is where big companies come in handy as they implement projects that have been piloted I small scale before being introduced to the city processes. To efficiently scale up the economy the city needs a resilient ecosystem of diverse actors. The small scale actors handle and cater for context specific aspects.

The city of Toronto Ontario consumes almost seventy five percent of its natural resources and produce as much waste that significantly contribute to the green house gases. This is caused by the linear approach that neglects sustainable development goals and the climate targets. The principle of design out waste and pollution is intended to reduce pollution and avoid creating waste in the first place. For example products and parts created within the city can be recycled, reused or composted. Another approach could be using untapped spaces in buildings, using renewable energy to power the city making it healthier and cleaner. The city of Toronto Ontario is an enormous concentration of economic opportunity and therefore generates enormous waste. Untreated waste streams to the environment becoming increasingly dangerous and unmanageable over time. This creates a need for a sustainable waste management strategy such as the resource, recovery and reuse. This leads to the next strategy that ensures that energy, nutrients and water streams are kept safe. Waste can be pelletized and reused as manure for farms. The next principle is the one that ensures that products are kept in use instead of the linear approach that disposes materials after use instead should be repaired and refurbished. This allows the people access to products, products or space in new forms through sharing and connecting people to their communities within the city allowing materials to easily flow in the processes. Another principle that is used in Toronto Ontario is that of the regeneration of natural systems that are aimed at returning valuable nutrients to the ground. As a result improves the air and water quality that improves the city.

The basic framework of the city of Toronto Ontario is that it uses its available resource to create an endless cycle that produces the energy to power the city. With the establishment of efficient systems the city betters the lives of its residents by allowing them to pump more water and produce more food which significantly grows the city. The report reflects that people take so much time sourcing for resources, making products from it the throwing it away. The option of sourcing fewer resources, making items more efficiently and thus throw away a bit less and maybe recycle. This however does not solve the problem but instead postpones the inevitable. This is the representation of an imposed linear system on a circular world therefore by observing nature we can rethink the future of Toronto Ontario.