Acknowledgments
Special thanks go to the UNIDO Team in Montevideo for organizing the workshop in December 2019 and field trips to active circular economy projects, as well as to all of the workshop participants for the insights they contributed to this research. We would like to thank Philippa Lockwood, Charlotte Watts and Anna Aberg for their insights and feedback, and for their invaluable administrative and research support throughout the process of writing this paper.
Thanks also to those who peer-reviewed the paper during its various stages of development – Tim Benton, Aldo Ometto, Christopher Sabatini and Thiago Uehara, and the anonymous reviewers – for your constructive feedback and suggestions.
We would also like to thank Vera Chapman Browne and Michael Tsang for their meticulous editing of the paper.
Finally, thanks go to the MAVA Foundation for its support of this research paper and the ongoing project ‘Building Transformative Alliances for an Inclusive Global Circular Economy’.