To truly move to a sustainable economy, Canada must embrace circularity principles and practices and move away from its current linear industries, supply chains, and business models. In order to make circularity a widely-adopted strategy for advancing sustainability, CELC has adopted a multi-pronged approach that focuses on:

Advancing critical enablers for circular economy across all sectors

Finance & Investment

Finance and investment are critical enablers for the circular economy, mobilizing capital to support business and community efforts while addressing…

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Supportive Policy

Taking a strategic, national approach to advancing a circular economy for Canada will help ensure that opportunities and benefits are…

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Information & Knowledge Sharing

Access to information and knowledge sharing is essential to advancing the circular economy in Canada, and must be based on…

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Convening ecosystem stakeholders to advance collaboration and relationship building

Online Community Platform

The CELC Community Platform will be an online space for our CELC Partner Network to connect, share knowledge, tackle barriers,…

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Knowledge Series Events & Workshops

Circular Economy Leadership Canada’s Knowledge Series is a series of free, public webinars dedicated to sharing information on topical themes…

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Canadian Circular Economy Summit

Co-hosted by Circular Economy Leadership Canada and the Circular Innovation Council, the Canadian Circular Economy Summit  convenes thought leaders from…

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Undertaking deep-dive sector work in strategic priority areas

Critical Minerals & Metals

Demand for primary metals and minerals is projected to escalate over the next 30 years, driven by rising global population,…

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Circular Food Systems

Canada’s agri-food industry—which includes all the enterprises that produce, sell, and deliver food—is one of Canada’s most important economic sectors.…

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Construction & Real Estate

Construction is one of the most important economic sectors in Canada, generating more than $150 billion in GDP in 2022.…

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Help shape the dialogue and action!

CELC works with stakeholders across sectors and industries to advance the circular economy solutions that are critical to Canada and North America more broadly.

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