International Synergies - Industry, Ecology, Solutions

This report sets out the findings of the first International Working Conference on Applied Industrial Symbiosis (IWCAIS), held in Birmingham, UK on 12th – 14th June, 2012.

The conference was convened by International Synergies Limited, and co-hosted by Birmingham City Council, to highlight the ability of industrial symbiosis to address current sustainability challenges - economic, environmental and social. Despite decades of experience with various industrial symbiosis models across five continents, the industrial symbiosis approach has not yet permeated mainstream business or policy.

NISP - The Pathway to a Low Carbon Sustainable Economy was published to coincide with NISP's five year anniversary and provides an insight into how some of the issues linked to climate change can be tackled using the industrial symbiosis approach and NISP model. The brochure charts the programme's progress since becoming the world's only national industrial symbiosis initiative and showcase just a number of the thousands of synergies identified by the programme and implemented by its members. It also sets out a compelling case that NISP, if scaled up, has the potential to fulfill a key role in increasing the resource productivity of industry and facillitating the transition towards the low carbon, sustainable economy.

NISP - The Pathway to a Low Carbon Sustainable Economy was published to coincide with NISP's five year anniversary and provides an insight into how some of the issues linked to climate change can be tackled using the industrial symbiosis approach and NISP model. The executive summary focusses on the programme's achievements and calculates the true impact its approach has had on the UK economy and environment while providing unrivalled value for money for the UK government.