Sun

Membership status: Strategic Partner

Stiftungsfonds für Umweltökonomie und Nachhaltigkeit GmbH (Foundation for Environmental Economics and Sustainability), or SUN, was established in September 2014 by the Deutsche Post Foundation in Bonn, Germany. SUN supports institutions, programmes, and projects dealing with the challenges and opportunities of environmental protection and sustainable development.

As a Strategic Partner, SUN enables the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to explore new areas of research and insight that will help accelerate the global transition to a circular economycircular economyA systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. It is based on three principles, driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature..

Since 2015 the partnership has enabled a number of successful collaborations, with SUN most recently sponsoring the Completing the picture: How the circular economy tackles climate change paper and the Big Food Redesign report, both released in collaboration with Material Economics. Previous sponsorship included the influential 2015 report Growth Within: a Circular Economy Vision for a Competitive Europe authored by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment, and  Achieving Growth Within, which was produced by SYSTEMIQ in collaboration with the Foundation.

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We believe that circular economy thinking will advance the world economy and the environment. In the field of circular economy, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation is writing a great success story. Therefore, we are proud to support the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and to strengthen its capabilities.

Dr. Klaus Zumwinkel, President of Deutsche Post Foundation and SUN