Monday, September 25, 2023

"By moving away from ownership and accumulation and towards models of access that distribute resources more equally...."

From The Circularity Gap Reporting Initiative's Circularity Gap Report 2023:
pp.58
REDISTRIBUTE : FROM ACCUMULATION TO DISTRIBUTION 
There is currently enough wealth and materials in the world to provide a good quality of life to every single human being on this planet.246 The challenge is ensuring that we can distribute the access to materials to an increasingly expanding group of people, requiring redistribution, different lifestyles, better technologies and social innovations.247 

By moving away from ownership and accumulation and towards models of access that distribute resources more equally, we can move towards a system that provides high-quality services to all. 

ACTIONS FOR POLICYMAKERS 
Governments can invest in the commons: from public transport, parks and nature reserves, to public housing and renewable energy infrastructure, to healthcare and social services.248

 A strong backbone of public infrastructure and services means that everyone can have equal access to high-quality goods and services to meet their daily needs. Governments can also steer the transition to a circular economy by enabling a just transition from inherently linear industries—like the fossil fuel industry—towards inherently circular industries like repair and waste management.249 250 

Practical examples of existing policy tools range from energy taxes to carbon pricing.251 These should be scaled to accelerate ongoing structural and distributional shifts, mirroring examples such as the use of carbon dividends252 in Switzerland253 and Canada.254

ACTIONS FOR BUSINESS LEADERS
Move towards service-based business models that deliver all the essential services that customers want. Manage the flow of goods and materials with circular production processes such as remanufacturing, repurposing and repairing. Leverage digital technologies to enable Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) such as TagItSmart, which has developed smart tags that allow manufacturers, consumers and recyclers to track every step of a product’s lifecycle, and provides information on how to ensure circularity.....

Previously, from July 2022's "Sri Lanka As A Testing Ground For Some Of The WEF's Ideas": 

Here's an interesting paragraph:

"....Sri Lanka’s situation exposes the true cost of living and the cost of ownership. In a 
performance economy, which encompasses one of the economic principles of a circular 
economy, a smaller number of asset owners will take custodianship of assets to keep 
them in use and provide services to many users based on consumption....."

That's from "How a circular economy could help tackle Sri Lanka's economic crisis", World Economic Forum, July 5, 2022. 

I'm beginning to think they were serious with this post on life in 2030. Although it was removed from the website of the World Economic Forum, it is available at the Internet Archive:

Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better

And regarding the "Actions for Business Leaders: Product-as-a-service", we've been tracking existence-as-a-service for a few years:

From those wonderful folks who bring us Davos, Existence as a Service!
Yes you can now purchase your existence for periods as short as one hour using WEFcoin and  the EaaS platform...