This comprehensive toolkit assists countries with assessing circularity within their building sectors.
It provides quantitative and qualitative assessments through a set of indicators and a structured questionnaire, helping to identify gaps and priorities for improving circular material and waste flows, reducing environmental impacts and enhancing economic and social benefits.
The Circular Business Development Canvas Pack is a set of tools designed to help businesses transition to circular economy models. It integrates key sustainability principles into business development, offering structured frameworks to map out circular strategies, value chains and impact.
French regulations on the circular economy in the construction sector have evolved significantly in recent years. INEC and Altes Avocats have produced an accessible guide to help stakeholders apply those regulations and share best practices.
The Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance (EXPRA)was founded in 2013 to promote effective and efficient EPR systems and sustainable packaging. It has produced a study outlining the core principles and practices of EPR, which are crucial for shaping and supporting effective EPR policies across Europe and worldwide.
This article identifies sustainable practices that are intended to reduce food loss and waste from the value chain, highlights the importance of sustainability accounting and reporting during each stage of food preparation, production and consumption and advances a theoretical model that clearly summarises different aspects related to environmental, social and governance dimensions.
The NDC Guidance is a practical guide on identifying and prioritising circular measures regarding Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).
It helps integrate existing approaches, such as the UN Toolbox on Building Circularity into NDCs. 27 activity sheets describe circular activities from a climate reporting perspective, helping with defining, tracking and reporting circular climate impacts.
As part of the Cooperative Partnership Erasmus+ IDEA (Improved Employability through Circular Economy Education for Adults) project, the partners have designed a comprehensive set of educational materials and platforms to assist educators with training unemployed adults (45+).
The ECO-FUTURE project was a 24-month transnational cooperation project on Teaching Circular ECOnomy to the FUTURE Generations.
It produced a series of educational tools in the field of the circular economy. The materials produced provide an upskilling pathway programme with which teachers can help 6-12 year old pupils explore the topic and values of the circular economy and sustainability.
Energy Expert, an Alibaba Cloud company, uses carbon footprint accounting combined with digital technologies to track the CO2 performance of a new range of products, from the initial plastic waste to the final rPET product, and makes the information available to the consumer.
Reducing your value chain’s emissions is a key factor in combating climate change, transitioning to a circular economy and ensuring that your business is competitive and complies with the law. This guide by Normative sets out six building blocks to measure and reduce carbon emissions from your value chain, a prerequisite for adopting circular business model principles.
