Global Product Stewardship Council

10/06/2026

Slow in the beginning, but now wind and solar generation is scaling faster than any other electricity sources in history.

This chart looks at the time taken for different technologies to grow from 100 TWh to 1,000 TWh of annual electricity generation.

✅ Solar took just 8 years
✅ Wind took 12 years
✅ By comparison, gas took 28 years, coal 32 years and hydro 39 years

Renewables now generate more than one third of global electricity, and wind and solar continue to account for over 90% of new power capacity added each year.

The pace of deployment matters because energy transitions are ultimately about scale, and the heating planet has become increasingly grumpy with us dawdling before.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinmooney/

https://www.carbonbrief.org/wind-and-solar-are-fastest-growing-electricity-sources-in-history/

02/09/2025

🔥 That’s more than any other carbon removal method; proving biochar is no longer niche, it’s leading.

It’s durable, verifiable, and working at scale to lock carbon away for centuries.

Biochar is turning waste into climate resilience and carbon markets into regeneration engines. 🌳

Source: https://www.carbonfuture.earth/cdr-technology/biochar-carbon-removal

01/09/2025

11/08/2025

We're excited to share that Anvarta has contributed to a newly published open-access report: “Collaborative Approaches to Circularity: Examining Plastics and Packaging in Asia-Pacific” (Swinburne University, 2025).

Our chapter—“Industrial Ecology and Beyond: How Industrial Waste Management Practices in Sri Lanka are Evolving towards a Circular Economy ”—explores how Sri Lanka’s industrial waste management practices are evolving toward circularity, drawing on rich case studies and insights from on-the-ground innovation.

This work would not have been possible without the thoughtful contributions of Sujith Gunawardhana, General Manager of INSEE Ecocycle Lanka; Mr. Senarath Mahinda Werahera, Director (Environment Pollution Control & Chemical Management) of the Ministry of environment, Sri Lanka; and Lawrance Madapatha, Executive Director of BOI Sri Lanka. Your openness, expertise, and commitment to sustainability helped shape a more grounded and actionable story. Thank you for your time, your trust, and your work.

We're also grateful to the editorial team and fellow authors who helped bring this report to life.

Chapter 6 is the "Industrial ecology and beyond: How industrial waste management practices in Sri Lanka are evolving towards a circular economy" https://doi.org/10.25916/sut.29567669

The full report is published as open access on Swinburne's platform and ResearchGate.
https://figshare.swinburne.edu.au/articles/report/Collaborative_Approaches_to_Circularity_Examining_Plastics_and_Packaging_in_Asia-Pacific/29661674?file=56618519
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394171609_Collaborative_Approaches_to_Circularity_Examining_Plastics_and_Packaging_in_Asia-Pacific/references

Usha Iyer-Raniga Christian (Andi) Nygaard Olamide Sh*ttu Swinburne University of Technology Katie Arnautovic The University of Western Australia Siddharth Mapara Recity Dharshi Hasthanayake GS1 Australia Ana Garcia Open 3P Dr Lakmini Edirisinghe University of Moratuwa Anvarta Anjulee Boralessa Viveka Edussooriya Edward KOSIOR NEXTEK Ltd NEXTLOOPP Americas, United Kingdom Nicole T Garofano, PhD, AAIP NTG CONSULTING Bhavna Middha RMIT University Ralph Horne Kajsa Lundberg Tamzin Rollason Cecily Maller, PhD Ninna Katrine Larsen Reground Tim Scott City of Kingston Melissa Skidmore CSIRO Roelof Vogel Monash Business School

12/07/2025