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Add to Preferred SourcesThe Dresden Nexus Conference (DNC) is an international conference series dedicated to advancing research and the implementation of a Nexus Approach to resource management.
The theme of the third DNC is “Circular Economy in a Sustainable Society”. With this theme, DNC2020 envisions to promote the resource perspective of waste in a circular economy with an emphasis on the social dimension. It is interesting to note that both nexus and circular economy concepts were born in the 1980s. However, the correlation of the two concepts was not noticed until nexus thinking began to incorporate the role of waste in the past few years.
DNC2020 aims to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable economy by focusing on identifying and discussing the concepts that nexus thinking offers to support the transition towards a circular economy. A Nexus Approach shares many synergies with the concept of a circular economy – a system that eliminates waste, keeps resources in use, and contributes to regenerating natural systems.
Providing a platform for exchange on this topic is crucial to ensure the findings and good initiatives from the scientific community are communicated to the right actors for implementation – political decision-makers as well as local stakeholders and representatives of the business community. DNC provides the scientific community opportunities to inform their initiatives through dialogue about the needs and challenges of political decision-makers as well as local stakeholders and representatives of the business community. Across the scientific community itself, this platform is important because the discussion around the Nexus Approach must be inter- and transdisciplinary, involving, for example, the social sciences as well as practitioners.
DNC2020 could be instrumental in helping Member States achieve the SDGs. DNC2020 will place an emphasis on how the Nexus Approach to water, soil, and waste in the context of a circular economy can help achieve the SDGs. DNC2020 will directly address, among others, Goal 2 (Zero hunger), Goal 6 (Clean water and sanitation), Goal 7 (Affordable and clean energy), Goal 11 (Sustainable cities and communities), Goal 12 (Responsible consumption and production), and Goal 13 (Climate action).
VENUE:
3-5 June 2020
Online Event
Original source: DNC2020
Published on 31 January 2020