THE THINKING WE DON'T SAVE FOR CLIENTS
Short, sharp reads on the decisions leaders actually have to make.
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The new Circular Scorecard for Real Estate: what it measures — and what it doesn't
Cirkelstad's new Circular Scorecard Real Estate links circularity to financing. We tested it. Here's what the score tells you — and what it doesn't.
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Readiness starts with common literacy
Read end to end, the tenth National SDG Report keeps naming one bottleneck across six sectors. Dutch progress stalls on coherence rather than commitment, and that is CRL2 without CRL1 at national scale.
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Circular production is becoming the business case for automation
Why circular production is becoming the real business case for automation in Dutch manufacturing — and why most firms aren't ready.
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Measurement is king
Why a single circularity number misleads, and what the most carefully measured economies reveal.
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€25.4 trillion of value, lost every year: the Circularity Gap Report 2026, visualised
The CGR 2026 introduces the Value Gap: €25.4 trillion of avoidable economic value lost each year to linear material use, almost a third of global GDP. A visual read of the five loss pathways and the material story underneath.
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Digital twins and the circular building: assembly, disassembly, and the memory in between
A building's circular value is decided twice — once when it goes up, and again when it comes down. The digital twin is what carries the memory between the two, and TNO's work on lifecycle information is where that memory becomes standardised.
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Whoever owns the scoreboard owns the change
Why capable sustainability hires burn out when the numbers belong to someone else, and how to build change that holds from the floor up.
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The 34 critical raw materials, and the design choices that keep them
The EU has flagged 34 raw materials as critical. Whether their value survives end-of-life is mostly settled at the design stage, long before anything reaches a recycler.
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Circularity is becoming a data discipline
Producer fees, product passports, recycled-content claims and reporting all turn on data that has to be owned, traceable and audit-ready.
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Change your default mode
Sustainability is a loaded word. Most leaders carry an old association with it. The ones who get ahead update their default mode — and treat that update as a process, not a switch.
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ESRS E5 in practice: what EFRAG's 2025 State of Play tells us about circular economy reporting
EFRAG's July 2025 review of 656 first-wave CSRD statements shows E5 Circular economy is material for 65% of preparers — but the FI/non-FI split, the sector picture, and the depth of disclosure tell the real story.
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Circular ambition is everywhere. The ability to deliver it is not.
Circular Intelligence began with a simple observation: circular ideas often stall because the organisations around them are not ready to deliver them. This is the origin of our readiness approach.
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