Our commitment to fostering a Circular Society led to a collaboration with Chatham House for the Global Roadmap for an Inclusive Circular Economy. This initiative aims to create a shared vision for a global circular economy and establish a multilateral process for integrated coordination and policy alignment. One of the initiative’s key outputs in 2024 was a policy paper titled How the Circular Economy Can Revive the Sustainable Development Goals. 

 
At the Wyss Academy, inclusivity is central to everything we do. To ensure the policy paper reflected diverse perspectives, particularly those often excluded from policy discussions, such as voices from the Global South, we convened roundtables in Nairobi, Lima, Bangkok, Delhi, and Geneva, with support from Swiss Embassies. These discussions brought together diverse stakeholders, including local entrepreneurs, policymakers, civil society leaders, and informal workers, to explore how local practices could inform global circular economy policies. The insights and recommendations gathered from these roundtables played a central role in shaping the policy paper.  

Our initial work and reflections with stakeholders from around the world on a Circular Society led to our engagement and contributions at a global level. As the discussion evolved, our terminology shifted from 'Circular Society' to 'Inclusive Circular Economy'—a term more widely recognized and tangible in policy discussions.