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(recorded on September 19, 2023) German Earth Overshoot Day fell on May 4th this year. If everyone in the world lived and did business like we do in Germany, the budget of sustainably usable resources for the entire year would already be used up on that day. A sustainable circular economy can make an important contribution to ensuring that we no longer live beyond our means in the future. How can we succeed in significantly reducing resource consumption? What solutions for a circular economy already exist? How can new technologies help us with this? The following people debated this: Matthias Beller, Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT) and Vice President of the Leibniz Association Claas Oehlmann, Managing Director of the BDI Initiative Circular Economy Environment, Technology and Sustainability, Federation of German Industries (BDI) Uwe Schneidewind, Mayor of Wuppertal and former President of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. Rebecca Tauer, Head of the Circular Economy Program at the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and Bettina Böhm, Secretary General of the Leibniz Association, opened the event. It was moderated by Jule Reimer, journalist in the Economy and Society program department of Deutschlandfunk.