This is a comprehensive guide for businesses aiming to integrate circular business models into their operations with a view to effectively addressing biodiversity loss.
It guides companies through the process of identifying and prioritising their most critical biodiversity impacts.
The GO-GRASS evaluation tool provides valuable insights and recommendations to help users make informed decisions about a business idea related to the processing of grass. The tool offers insights about critical factors and best practices, based on the four GO-GRASS demonstration sites and possible value chains for grassland valorisation.
Wales (Cymru in Welsh!) will be hosting the 2024 European Circular Economy Hotspot: Circular Economy Hotspot Cymru 2024.
The summit will take place on 7-9 October in Cardiff. It will be an opportunity to share Wales' circular economy achievements and aspirations, and learn about circular economy solutions from the public sector, private sector and communities from Wales and beyond.
The UNECE Regional Conference on the Circular Economy will take place on 26 June at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Conference is held under the auspices of UNECE’s regional knowledge-sharing network, Circular STEP.
From Niche to Centre (City Centres as Places of Circular Lifestyles) is an Interreg Central Europe project. It aims to revitalise fading city centres by making local trade and consumption more circular and sustainable.
The project is organising a series of webinars: this one will explore Big Points for Sustainable Consumption and Circular Lifestyles. It will identify measures that are particularly important for effective environmental and climate protection.
Tilos is a tiny Greek island, and in 2021 it undertook to become 'zero waste'. And it succeeded: in 2023, it was officially proclaimed a Zero Waste Certified City.
They achieved this by setting up the Just Go Zero Tilos project, in collaboration with Polygreen, a waste management company which provides solutions for industrial waste and marine pollution. The project successfuly minimised waste production and cut out landfilling.
Circe.med is a network of Mediterranean organisations involved in the transition towards ecologically and sustainable ecosystems. Established at the start of 2024, it wants to help deliver a carbon-free, circular economy which will improve people's quality of life.
The initiative aims to deepen, promote and implement a circular economy based on efficient and reduced use of natural resources.
Three main strands:
Sustainable food
Tourism and plastic in coastal areas
The built environment
The network's member organisations strive to deliver an effective circular economy in the Mediterranean which will benefit their individual ecosystems and the region as a whole.
The network is supported by an online platform, Circemed.org, which promotes cooperation and acts as a resource centre.
The Textiles ecosystem stakeholder event, organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs, will take place on 4 June.
There will be updates from the Commission on the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, the implementation of the Transition Pathway for the Textiles Ecosystem, the EU Pact for Skills and the European Partnership on Textiles under Horizon Europe.
EU Green Week is an annual opportunity to raise awareness, promote and discuss European environmental policy. This year's focus is Towards a water resilient Europe.
There are two strands: the EU Green Week conference Towards a water resilient Europe, taking place on 29-30 May in Brussels, and the EU Green Week Partner Events, taking place between 29 May and 1 September around Europe. They will focus on water resilience, but there are several on circularity, too - such as Implementing circular economy with EU Ecolabel, taking place on 27 August in Latvia.
The Sustainable IT Summit took place on 23 April in the United Arab Emirates, organised by Circular Computing which, unsurprisingly, is endeavouring to promote circularity in the IT sector. The summit was attended by IT industry leaders who discussed sustainability challenges in this sector and the opportunities offered by circular processes such as remanufacturing.
The general consensus was that remanufacturing and acceptance of reused devices is inevitable: 20% of enterprise laptops bought will be pre-used in a few years.
