Presentation on Circularity Africa Conference 2020

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CIRCULARITY AFRICA
CONFERENCE 2020
Dr Olawale Emmanuel Olayide
Interconnections for Making Africa Great Empowered & Sustainable
(IMAGES) Initiative
http://circularityafrica.imagesinitiatives.org

2. IMAGES Initiative
Mission
To advance the course of the Sustainable Development Goals and Africa
Agenda 2063 through Research, Advocacy, Field Trips, Conferences,
Seminars, Policy Roundtables, Workshops, Symposia, Summits, Exhibitions,
and Communications through Policy Briefs, Communiqués, Quarterly
Newsletters and Social Media Platforms.
About
IMAGES Initiative aim to catalyze and help create transformational
partnerships to encourage actions that reflect an integrated
approach to the three pillars of Sustainable Development.
Vision
To provide policymakers, civil society, development agencies and
researchers with a comprehensive set of innovative approaches and
tested good practices around unlocking women and men’s great
potential in achievement of Sustainable Development Goals and
Africa Agenda 2063.

3. Circularity Africa 2020: Enabling
Circular Economy in AfricaAfrica
A circular economy is an economic
system of closed loops in which raw
materials, components and products
lose their value as little as possible,
renewable energy sources are used
and systems thinking is at the core.
Circularity Africa 2020 is organised by
IMAGES Initiative in collaboration with
recognised green businesses and networks
within and outside Africa. It promises to
be the largest science-policy-practice event
in 2020 which aims at catalysing green
businesses and circular economy for
sustainable development in Africa.

4. Expectations of Circularity Africa 2020
• It will be the largest science-policy-practice event in Africa in
2020
• It will help in catalysing green businesses and circular
economy for sustainable development in Africa
• It will inform and empower participants to turn circular
economy concept into profitable opportunities.
• There will be inspirational plenaries, interactive breakout
sessions, high-level political discourses, policy roundtables,
professional networking, mentoring sessions for start-ups,
awards of recognition, solutions-focused exhibitions as well as
opportunity for publication of research and policy-oriented
papers (in Special Issue of BSD published by Wiley).

6. Conference Special Offerings
• High-Level Political Discourse on Extended
Producers Responsibilities
• Policy Roundtable on Gas Flaring & Cleaner
Production
• Academic and Scientific Sessions
• Carbon Offset Project and Unveiling of
Recycle Station
• Green Innovation School Challenge

8. Green Innovation School Challenge
A challenge for secondary
school students in Oyo
State, Nigeria to curate
green innovation projects
that address
environmental challenges
with workable and
sustainable solutions.
It is to inculcate the
culture of caring for the
environment in students
and to promote youth
entrepreneurship.

9. Conference Keynote Speakers
Prof. PLO Lumumba
PLO LUMUMBA is an
Advocate of the High
Courts of Kenya and
Tanzania and Law
Lecturer at the
Faculty of Law,
University of Nairobi
and the former
Director of The Kenya
School of Laws.
He is one of the
Trustees and the
Executive Director of
the African Institute
of Leaders and
Leadership, Nairobi,
Kenya.

10. Conference Keynote Speakers
Dr Pauline Deutz
Pauline's research interests are
focused on the political and economic
aspects of environmental issues. Her
particular is the building, and
implications, of a Circular Economy
(i.e., maximising the value from
resources and minimising wastes). Her
research in this area includes multi-
disciplinary collaborations with
colleagues in environmental sciences,
chemical systems engineering, and
sustainable Development. She is the
CRESTING Project Coordinator
http://cresting.hull.ac.uk/network/proj
ect-team. She is also the President of
ISDRS http://isdrs.org/the-board-of-
the-isdrs.

11. Thank you for your kind attention