News / 29.01.2025

From March 2025, the Berlin Institute for Governance & Leadership (BIGL) at the Berlin School of Economics and Law will be offering comprehensive further training in sustainability skills for supervisory board members. Thinking Circular® is pleased to be providing the “Deep Dive Circular Economy” workshop in the second module of the training. The requirements of sustainability regulation are an opportunity for companies and organizations to position themselves resiliently for the future. The BIGL training course addresses precisely this potential: going beyond the mere fulfillment of reporting obligations, we prepare supervisory...

News / 27.01.2025

The Thinking Circular® team will support you in your analysis and in the measures to safely meet the standard requirements and increase the resilience of your organization! International norms and standards can play a central role in the fight against climate change and in adapting to it. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has therefore revised not only its central standard for the environmental management system ISO 14001, but also the standards for many other management systems, including the important ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 45001 and ISO 50001....

Unkategorisiert / 14.01.2025

Like the Ahr Valley in 2021, the Valencia region was hit hard by flooding in October 2024. Currently, waste management experts and scientists in Valencia are discussing the challenges and possible solutions. The public images from Valencia are strongly reminiscent of the events in the Ahr Valley and evoke sympathy for the affected people in Spain. Eveline Lemke, former Minister of Economic Affairs of Rhineland-Palatinate, accepted an urgent invitation from the local municipal association and the Clean Waste cluster, together with Stephan Müllers, technical director of the Ahrweiler waste...

News / 19.12.2024

Sustainability reporting and rules from the EU taxonomy are to be simplified. What does this mean for investments? The CSRD, CSDDD and the EU Taxonomy are key instruments for promoting sustainable business. They set out the key issues and define the indicators that must be reported on. However, the rules are not consistent in themselves and the scale of the indicators is too large. Companies groan under the excessive demands and consultants provide information with different focuses. So how do you deal with a reporting rule that is in...

News / 03.09.2024

After seven years on the Supervisory Board of Abo Wind AG, I stepped down from my position in July 2024 for personal reasons. The timing was favorable for both sides following the completion of the change of legal form to ABO Energy KGaA. [caption id="attachment_7703" align="alignleft" width="300"] Eveline Lemke, Matthias Bockholt[/caption] Being a member of the Supervisory Board at ABO Wind was an interesting challenge for me from the very beginning. I have been involved in the energy transition on very different levels for a long time, so it was...

News / 10.07.2024

These days, many people and institutions are looking back on the flood in the Ahr valley in 2021. As part of the cooperation project between the Environmental Learning School+, Thinking Circular® and the Ahrweiler District Adult Education Centre, Stefan Müllers, Technical Director of the Ahrweiler waste management company, and Christian Hofeditz, Director of the Ahrweiler District Adult Education Centre, looked back on the past year in particular. They focused on their own activities in the Environmental Learning School+ and the events organised with the adult education centre on...

News / 12.06.2024

A sustainability report in accordance with the ESRS rules laid down by the EU cannot be written by hand, of course. And calculating GHG emissions is not something you simply do with a calculator. At the beginning of 2024, we researched which software solutions are available on the German market and to what extent they already take into account the EU requirements of October 2023. Many solutions did not make it into our overview because they did not even offer basic elements. We were looking for a solution...

News / 12.06.2024

Sustainability reporting according to the new EU rules It works! Medium-sized companies can also produce their sustainability report in accordance with the EU's ESRS standard. Here we use an example to describe why this is necessary and how it works. In the fall of 2023, the EU adopted the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). The national member states must now translate this rule into their sustainability reporting legislation. There is an ongoing debate about the differences between the German Sustainability Code and the ESRS and we can look forward to...

News / 09.04.2024

Imagine you are on a journey into the future. And at the moment you can see nothing more than the road you are traveling on and the crash barriers to the left and right of your path. You can also look behind you and see what the path you have already left behind you looks like. How do you feel about that? People who have enjoyed traveling in Scandinavia or Canada, perhaps even on Route 66 through America, can well imagine this. They follow an idea of experiencing a...

News / 15.01.2024

The end of human dominion. And  the new beginning of human existence. The current farmers' protests in Germany show once again that climate protection is being pitted against the protection of human interests, such as the basic supply of food. And of course we know the arguments we use to promote climate-friendly agriculture and animal welfare. Nevertheless, the argument that climate protection is not human protection subtly catches on. So there is reason to explore this metaphor. Because only if we understand why the supposed opposition between nature and culture...

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