“Our struggle for global sustainability will be won or lost in cities.”

Germany is currently undergoing a decade of transformation, in which sustainability has become the main driver of innovation and future-proofness.
That is the fulcrum that enables sustainable economies to leverage the closing of material cycles.
The primary objective is to create a circular economy – one with “zero waste” – in which all consumable goods are returned into the cycle. In other words, the consumption of resources is radically minimised.
The subject of circular economy is at the heart of many Sustainability Development Goals of the United Nations.
The circular economy plays a pivotal role even in the Expo subtheme “Connecting Lives” that our Pavilion has chosen to contribute to.
This also applies to the two United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals that Germany chose for its Expo participation: Goal 9 “Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure” and Goal 11 “Sustainable Cities and Communities”. Both important aspects of making economies circular.