The CIRAIG has been involved in the advisory committee for this initiative since its beginning.

Context

Businesses are increasingly recognizing the circular economy as a crucial building block in the transition to a net-zero and nature-positive world. But one key question remains: How can they measure their circular performance and its impact on sustainability in a consistent and reliable way? That’s where the Circular Transition Indicators (CTI) come in. Designed for business by business to unleash the transformative power of the circular economy, CTI offers a universal and quantitative framework for evaluating how circular a company is. Now in its fourth edition, CTI empowers companies to unlock the value of circularity and drive progress toward their sustainability goals. Explore what CTI can do for you:

• Measure your impact: CTI enables you to quantify and communicate the climate and nature benefits of your circular initiatives.
• Strengthen your reporting capabilities: Provide investors and regulatory bodies with circular performance data based on the comprehensive CTI framework.
• Take action: CTI guides you toward actions to increase circularity within your operations. Identify practical steps to optimize resource use, limit waste and maximize your circular potential.

CTI version 4.0: what is new?

CTI v4.0 includes updates to its Impact of the Loop module which helps companies prioritize circular strategies in light of their impact on the company’s sustainability targets. In this version, we update greenhouse gas (GHG) impact with a methodology to measure the impact of using higher value inflows (reused, refurbished, remanufactured content) and enabling the recovery of outflows on material carbon footprint CTI v4.0 includes a new indicator to measure impact on nature. CTI v4.0 begins this important work focusing on a key pressure on nature loss: land use. This report provides a methodology to measure land use impact of circular sourcing strategies. CTI does not constitute a complete assessment of sustainability performance where better frameworks exist, like LCA. But it gives a first insight on the link between circularity and potential environmental benefits.