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Timely Insights for Climate Action

Timely Insights for Climate Action digs into current developments to illuminate an interconnected world.

dilemmas of impact: why every purpose-driven company has to choose its battles

dilemmas of impact: why every purpose-driven company has to choose its battles If you run an impact-first company – or you simply treat your job as leverage for impact – I bet that there’s a version of society that you’re deeply, almost unreasonably impatient to bring about. And it’s rarely one thing. It’s ten things,… Read More »dilemmas of impact: why every purpose-driven company has to choose its battles

wayfinding the New European Bauhaus

The New European Bauhaus is not one programme – it’s more of an ecosystem. This guide provides an overview of every NEB programme and shares what we’ve learned hosting Ignite NEB Copenhagen and engaging in the conversation with community members and stakeholders.

how to turn public engagement into policy – beyond the citizens’ assembly

A citizens’ assembly is, by design, a room. People are selected, invited, briefed, seated, and asked to talk. It’s a genuinely useful room – better than most alternatives we’ve inherited from 20th-century democracy. But it is still a room, and policy made in isolation tends to arrive back in the real world a little perplexed.

what it really takes to become a B Corp in 2026

With the bar for certification recently heightened, what this means for companies aiming to certify has changed. It’s about meeting clear, mandatory standards of social and environmental performance across your entire business — and improving over time. So what does that actually look like in practice?

beyond recycling – how citizens help create a circular city

The Copenhagen Circularity Lab has delivered a unique program that invites citizens to create value out of disposed of materials from a local recycling station. The program helped make innovating towards a circular economy more approachable and democratic, by openly inviting citizens to experiment with innovation resources. Because a circular city is built, above all, by and for citizens.