Date: 13-15 May 2020

Venue: International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Registration Deadline: March 31, 2020

Preamble:
Circularity is a paradigm shift in sustainable development practice. It offers a great opportunity for enabling green businesses and circular economy by ensuring sustainable transformation pathways and closing the loop as against linear models of development. Circularity Africa 2020 will bring together over 1,000 thought leaders and practitioners, including governments, politicians, policymakers, researchers, manufacturers, business owners and entrepreneurs to explore opportunities for enabling circular economy in Africa through the instruments of the African Continental Free Trade Area, Sustainable Development Goals, Africa Agenda 2063 and other Multilateral Agreements.

Circularity Africa 2020 is organised by the Interconnections for Making Africa Great, Empowered and Sustainable (IMAGES) Initiative in collaboration with recognised green businesses and networks in Africa as well as partners from Europe, Americas, Asia and Australia. 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. The event will inform and empower participants to turn circular economy concept into profitable opportunities through 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.

Sub-themes:
* Policies and multilateral agreements
* Green business models and inclusivity
* Extended producers’ responsibility
* Material recovery, recycling and repair
* Digital revolution and supply chain management
* Responsible production and consumption
* Eco-settlements and eco-industrial parks
* African Continental Free Trade Area
* Public-private partnerships and trans-boundary trade flows
* Corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainability

Registration fee

Regular participants: USD200

Student registration: USD100 (student must show evidence of current registration and letter of support endorsed by academic supervisor)

Participants from Nigeria may pay Local Equivalent of these rates.

Note
We recommend you register as soon as possible as we will get back to people on rolling basis. Registration will close when we exhaust available slots.

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