The themes for April's issue of The Environment are green finance and the circular economy:

Circular economy

Inside the circular economy with Tessa Clarke and Saasha Celestial-One, founders of food-sharing app OLIO

Scaling up circular businesses with neighbourhood remakeries; Sophie Unwin is a woman with a business plan

How can water firms move towards a more circular business model?

How Syrian refugees in Jordan are greening the desert, one discarded mattress at a time

Green finance

Local firms need tax breaks to deliver a just transition, argues Chidi Oti Obihara

WWF's Global Futures report makes a business case for investing in nature

Rob Macquarie tracks how investment might shift from carbon-intensive to low-carbon sectors

Plus

Irish Water's ill-fated bid to introduce domestic water charges

Future water: a postcard from 2070, if we put community first

Why Wales' mining legacy is bad for river-water quality

How to tackle metal pollution from road runoff

CIWEM policy: climate change may be behind February's wave of UK floods, but it's austerity that has done the damage

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