Sustainability experts from six multinationals identified opportunities to enhance urban sustainability in Turku, Finland. Collaborating under the World Business Council for Sustainable Development's (WBCSD) Urban Infrastructure Initiative, this is the first time a city has worked with global businesses to achieve sustainability goals. The collaboration's focus is city-centre development, land use and energy. These will be achieved through better traffic management, building control systems and municipal energy management. More specifically, the programme has seven priority areas such as green procurement, clean energy, clean mobility and traffic management systems, and green logistics.

Collaborative sustainability programme in Turku

Measuring progress in the circular economy is challenging. What and how a company, organization or government chooses to its contributions towards a circular economy depends on its objectives, scope and intended audiences. Even within the private sector, the indicators, methodologies and target audiences for circular metrics vary greatly.&nbsp;As part of WBCSD’s circular economy program aims to achieve harmony in how individual companies measure their progress in the circular economy. This report evaluates the current landscape of circular metrics globally.

Circular Metrics -  A framework for measuring a
company’s performance in the circular economy

Together with&nbsp;30 member companies WBCSD has developed a&nbsp;universal and transparent&nbsp;framework to measure circularity. The Circular Transition Indicators (CTI), now at its second edition,&nbsp;is a simple, objective and quantitative framework that can be applied to businesses of all industries, sizes, value chain positions and geographies.There is v1, v2 and a corresponding tool.