The webinar will delve into strategies for launching and managing an investment fund dedicated to circular economy initiatives, focusing on insights from InvestCEC, Venionaire and exelixis capital AG. It will explore the financial barriers within the circular economy and strategies to overcome them.
Emma Pipó Ollé from the BioBoost project will also share key project insights on how they accelerate circular economy initiatives in Catalunya.
The ENDURANCE project has produced a handbook setting out a green acceleration methodology with defined, transferable and effective acceleration scenarios. These will serve as a roadmap for other European clusters, regardless of their sector of industrial activity.
The aim is to promote the transition towards a clean, circular and climate-neutral economy.
The Commission has granted more than €380 million to 133 new projects across Europe under the LIFE Programme for environment and climate action. The allocated amount represents more than half of the €574 million total investment needs for these projects - the remainder coming from national, regional and local governments, public-private partnerships, businesses, and civil society organisations.
LIFE projects contribute to reaching the European Green Deal's broad range of climate, energy and environmental goals, including the EU's aim to become climate-neutral by 2050 and to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, while ensuring Europe's long-term prosperity. This investment will have a lasting impact on our environment, the economy and the well-being of all Europeans.
This COP16 side event, organised by the ECESP's Leadership Group on Biodiversity & Climate, will explore the opportunities and anticipated benefits of using the circular economy as a tool for mainstreaming biodiversity in economic sectors.
This programme builds on the solid foundations laid by previous programmes.
Chapter 1 sets out a vision of the circular economy up to 2030 and 2050.
Chapter 2 addresses general measures used to help deliver a circular economy in the Netherlands. They affect the various phases of the product value chains.
Chapter 3 describes measures that relate to specific product groups, such as furniture, plastic packaging and housing.
Chapter 4 addresses supporting measures for a number of topics, such as knowledge & innovation, the Circular Netherlands Accelerator!, market incentives, financing instruments and circular procurement.
Chapter 5 covers the collaboration between the parties involved in this programme.
Chapter 6 describes which resources are available for the plans in this programme.
Sanna Markkanen, Anum Sheikh, Diana Potjomkina, Martin Porter, Bianca Drotleff (CISL), Bettina Bahn-Walkowiak, Thomas Götz, Henning Wilts (Wuppertal Institute), with support from Giacomo Sebis and Krisztina Zálnoky.
This report delves into the business case for accelerated EU action on the circular economy.
It provides policy recommendations for the forthcoming Circular Economy Act, focusing on the business perspective and how the Act could support the EU’s resilience and competitive sustainability. It highlights barriers and actions identified by companies across various sectors.
The report stresses that a more ambitious and integrated approach, driven by the Circular Economy Act and other strategic EU initiatives, is essential for achieving the EU’s broader goals of climate neutrality, industrial success and social equity.
The authors aim to improve the understanding of both businesses and policy makers about the urgent need to accelerate the circular economy transition.
The Horizon Europe POLYMEER project aims to establish a sustainable bio-based value chain for bioplastic products. By efficiently converting wet brewers’ spent grain into high added value materials, it is endeavouring to diversify the array of innovative material solutions capable of replacing traditional plastics.
The report presents the progress the Commission has made in implementing the 2022 strategy for the outermost regions. It shows that the Commission has delivered on its commitment to reflect the outermost regions’ characteristics in legislative proposals, policy initiatives and programmes.
The outermost regions have high potential to develop circular economy solutions. Cohesion policy supports circular economy development there. Both the ERDF and Interreg support waste management and recycling, for instance in Réunion with EUR 18 million of ERDF funding dedicated to the circular economy. Outermost regions also benefit from support under the LIFE programme. Several of these regions have designed circular strategies, such as the Circular Economy Conference of the Azores.
CIRCULÉIRE, Ireland's National Platform for Circular Innovation, will be holding its annual conference under the banner The Future of Business is Circular.
The conference will focus on Pathways to 2030 decarbonisation, Building future markets and Showcasing industrial circularity. It will bring together leaders in climate innovation, policy and government to discuss circular advancement in Ireland.
