Governance for C2CN preliminary conclusions

Leuven, 2010, July 13

Johan Hovelynck – Cradle to Cradle Network – Cycloop group

Governance for C2C

Governance:

“the act of governing”

“shifting pattern in styles of governing”

What governance practices

Help C2C move forward?

Johan Hovelynck – Cradle to Cradle Network – Cycloop group

Governance for C2C

Johan Hovelynck – Cradle to Cradle Network – Cycloop group

Background

A shift towards acknowledging more actors: inclusion & differentiation

A shift towards more horizontal collaborative interactions & arrangements

Shifts towards multi-actor governanceare embedded in

shifts toward more active citizenship

Supply chain

„Certifying‟ products or loops?

~ C2C as design & production logic

Network

Community

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Governance for C2C

Johan Hovelynck – Cradle to Cradle Network – Cycloop group

Governance for C2C

Strategies for lead-actors

Experimenting: “just doing it”…

Brokering: creating / facilitating new connections

Buffering: safeguarding the vitality and drive in

generative networks in the interface with the procedural

logic of political bureaucracy

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Johan Hovelynck – Cradle to Cradle Network – Cycloop group

Governance for C2C

Roles of government actors

Convener: in multi-actor governance, the

ultimate act of power may well be to establish a „stable‟ and generative network / regime…

On what basis? „Captains of industry‟, frontrunners, boundary-spanners…?

Similarity diversity

Facilitator: interest in moving forward, not in

„content outcomes‟

De- or re-regulator: innovative multi-actor

collaboration implies multiple legal frameworks…

Johan Hovelynck – Cradle to Cradle Network – Cycloop group

Governance for C2C

Roles of government actors

Financer: remains a primary role in the cases

submitted – does this raise sustainability issues?

For C2C: awareness of paradoxes involved

For this project: importance of identifying „self-governance‟ cases?

Johan Hovelynck – Cradle to Cradle Network – Cycloop group

Governance for C2C

Perspective study:

Statement: “C2CN is not intended to design a validation tool, but to collect good practices”

Proposal: C2CN is intended to validate good practices through „inquiring‟ and „highlighting‟ („certifying‟)

Seminar:

Returning with relevant questions…

Johan Hovelynck – Cradle to Cradle Network – Cycloop group

C2CN governance framework

will be mailed to you

will be available at

the C2CN website

Thanks for your attention!

Keep an eye on governance ;-)

Governance in C2C

Johan Hovelynck – Art Dewulf – Koen Siips

Cradle to Cradle Network – Cycloop group