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Help for innovators

Policymakers must make it worthwhile for businesses to invest in resource-efficient product design, as Sonja van Renssen explains.

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Figure 1: The circular economy.

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van Renssen, S. Help for innovators. Nature Clim Change 3, 180–181 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1842

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