Circular economy: the missing piece at COP26 ('Insights' series 4 - episode 9)

The Green Alliance Podcast

Green Alliance

Environment, Uk, Farming, Green Alliance, News, Sustainability, Society & Culture, Government

4.9 • 34 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we speak to Dr Colin Church, CEO of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, about the role of the circular economy in achieving net zero emissions and tackling biodiversity loss. While world leaders gather in Glasgow for COP26, rethinking resource use is the missing piece of the puzzle.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Green Alliance podcast.
0:06.0	We're the charity and think tank that is all about achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.
0:11.0	My name is Heather Plumpton, I'm a policy analyst working on resources, natural environment and low carbon future themes at Green Alliance.
0:18.0	In the run-up to hosting COP26, climate and environmental policy in
0:22.5	the UK has never been a hotter topic. In recent weeks, the government has finally published
0:27.4	the long-awaited net zero strategy and review, and media tension is building ahead of the big summit
0:32.7	in Glasgow. With the government's slogan of coal, cars, cash and trees, there's been plenty of focus on electric vehicles, finance and power generation.
0:42.6	But precious little attention has been paid to the materials and resources used to build the cars, batteries and wind turbines that we so clearly need.
0:52.1	In this episode, we'll be talking to Dr. Colin Church, Chief Executive of the
0:56.3	Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and Chair of Green Alliance's Circular Economy
1:01.1	Task Force, about how material and resource use fits into climate policy and COP-46,
1:07.0	and why a strategic approach to resources, including critical raw materials, is so important to the net zero transition.
1:16.0	Welcome to the Green Alliance podcast, Colin. Thank you so much for joining us.
1:19.5	Thank you for having me.
1:20.5	Perhaps we could kick off by asking you to just briefly introduce yourself in your background.
1:25.8	I'm the chief executive of the Institute of Materials and Mining as my day job,
1:30.1	but I also chair the Circular Economy Task Force.
1:33.1	Prior to working for IM3, I also ran CRWM, the Resource and Waste Managers Professional Network.
1:39.5	Before that, I spent 20-odd years in the UK government in a variety of different roles,
1:45.6	my last one of which was dealing with everything environmental that's not green or cuddly for DEFRA. Quite a task,
1:51.4	though. So you've been chair of the circular economy task force at Green Alliance for a few years now.
1:57.8	Could you just briefly talk us through the aims of that task force and why
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