Background:
SWITCH-Asia Regional Policy Advocacy Component (SWITCH-Asia RPAC) and the Asian Institute of
Technology (AIT) are organising a webinar to launch a series of policy dialogues on sustainable
lifestyles in Asia and an offline course on Circular Economy.
The Policy Dialogue on Sustainable Lifestyles for SCP (with an additional focus on Covid-19) aims to
create an enabling environment (policies, financing, technologies, business models, and stakeholder
engagement) to replicate and scale up good practices on sustainable lifestyles. An offline course on
Circular Economy will also be conducted, with a focus on SCP and Circular Economy.
Webinar Objective:
1. Enhancing understanding of the sustainable lifestyle concept through discussion of good practices
in Asia with relevant examples from European countries.
2. Analyzing/proposing the enabling
environment (policies, financing, business models, technologies and stakeholders' engagement) and
promoting knowledge transfer through networking.
Target Audience:
This webinar is targeted to professionals at national, sub-regional and regional level who are
supporting the development of various policies and practices in order to implement the circular
economy in line with national roadmaps that are being developed in countries.