While circular economy practices offer substantial environmental and economic benefits along with local job creation, their implementation requires significant adjustments in working conditions and practices.
This briefing dives into two of the circular building pathways identified as having high social impacts in the Circular Buildings Coalition’s 2024 Four Pathways Report: 1) Build with the Right Materials; and 2) Build Nothing.
These pathways are explored, along with their regulatory and market-level drivers, barriers and the measures needed to safeguard workers.
The PROMOFER project aims to use low value feedstock (straw, industrial wastewater and starch, mostly) to manufacture valuable biobased compounds. Specifically, it will improve the fermentation processes and downstream purification, solve bottlenecks upstream and downstream, and produce high-value applications.
Mexico Circular Hotspot will take place on 5-6 November. It will focus on bringing together stakeholders from business, governments and knowledge institutions to advance the circular economy in Mexico and the Americas.
The Nordic Circular Design Programme is an eight-month development programme geared to ensuring that Nordic companies are ready for and able to take the lead in the transition to the circular economy.
The second application round is open until 15 September.
FNADE will ask a highly relevant question: how can we make circularity an asset for competitiveness?
The congress will endeavour to identify levers for developing local production of materials and energy from the waste sector in France and Europe. It will also look at ways to reconcile regulatory simplification with the protection of the environment and human health.
The Western Balkans Circular Economy Hub is excited to announce the launch of the 100 best circular practices initiative from the Western Balkan region! Has your company/organisation gone circular? Could what you've done be an inspiration for others? Then apply!
Do you know everything you need to know about how SMEs can identify cost effective circularity actions? If so, congratulations! If not, here's an opportunity to ask someone who does!
The event will explore how innovative circular solutions contribute to growers' efficient operations, ensuring sustainable food production in Europe.
With a focus on sustainable practices and technological advancements, it will bring together food industry experts, researchers, policymakers and farmers to exchange knowledge, share best practices and foster collaboration within horticulture across all Member States.
CircularPSP (Public Service Platforms for Circular, Innovative and Resilient Municipalities through PCP) brings together eight leading circular economy cities, representing 45 million people. Its focus is pre-commercial procurement.
It is organising a Green Week Partner Event to present its AI tool for public procurement.
The aim is to boost circular construction in Noord-Holland, use fewer raw materials and thus contribute to the region's objective of switching to a fully circular economy by 2050 and reducing the use of primary raw materials by 50% in 2030.
The deal stipulates that all Participating Parties will:
apply circular harvesting as standard;
where possible, disclose how much released material has been processed in a circular manner and by what means;
share knowledge and collaborate on creating new circular chains and identifying and linking up existing chains, platforms and circular raw material hubs.
See also the Dutch and German versions of the deal.
