How does digitalisation contribute to advancing circular procurement practices?
The ECESP Leadership Group on Circular Procurement invites you to join the #EUCircularTalks webinar on 27 September at 10:00 – 12:00 CEST, offering valuable insights into global trends, practical tools, and real-world case studies. Participants will learn strategies to mitigate environmental and social impacts associated with ICT procurement and to implement sustainable procurement practices effectively.
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.
Sustainable Estimatics is a carbon tracking tool, intended to help the insurance industry manage new environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulations and become greener and less wasteful.
It empowers insurers to quantify and mitigate the carbon dioxide equivalent emissions associated with their entire car insurance claims process. As regards the circular dimension, it enables insurers to compare the environmental impact of repairing car parts versus replacing them.
The LIFE programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action. Created in 1992, it has co-financed thousands of projects. The LIFE programme 2021-2027 is managed by the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency and has a budget of EUR 5.4 billion.
All of this and more will be presented at the EU LIFE24 Info Days event. The comprehensive programme will cover issues such as LIFE calls for proposals - application and evaluation, Climate Mitigation and Adaptation, Circular Economy and Quality of Life and Introduction to LIFE Clean Energy Transition. There will be presentations, Q&A sessions and parallel sessions. Come and find out all about it!
TwinRevolution is an interactive tool and training course intended to upskill and reskill VET learners by providing them with the necessary green and digital competences. It focuses on the European textiles and furniture sectors, simply because they were not set up as digital nor have they adopted a green approach from the outset.
Platform business models, exemplified by companies like Amazon, have disrupted industries and achieved global scale. This session on 17 April will discuss how these models, typically serving linear economies, can also promote circular and collaborative business models.
Participants will be able to explore how circular platforms, influenced by policies, technologies and trends, can drive the circular economy’s growth.
SUSTAINair is a project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme. It aims to revolutionise aviation through groundbreaking technologies and impactful solutions.
Circular Aviation in the EU, SUSTAINair’s final conference, will bring together researchers, industry leaders and stakeholders to discuss the future of aviation sustainability. This flagship event will take place in Vienna on 11-12 June.
Linked to the BATRAW project that develops circular approaches for electric vehicle batteries, this CEPS report delves into the new EU regulatory framework for batteries and the expanding EU digital product passport landscape. It identifies key opportunities and challenges for battery passports based on data collected from companies at different stages of the battery value chain.
The data suggest that the battery passport can help break down information silos among supply chain actors and support recycling and reuse. It also provides opportunities for increasing transparency about carbon footprint impacts across battery supply chains, while creating a level playing field with horizontal requirements for all supply chain actors.
Businesses need financing, and banks need to know whether a given company is a good risk. The Risk project group (part of De Nederlandsche Bank's Circular Economy Working Group and consisting of experts from Rabobank, ABN AMRO, ING, Triodos and Invest-NL) set out to create a scorecard which would enable financial institutions to establish whether a specifically circular business is a good bet.
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Communication, Networks, Content and Technology has published a call for proposals regarding the deployment of the Green Deal Data Space. The call is looking for solutions that use data and digital technologies to create value for the circular economy as well as biodiversity, zero pollution or climate change/adaptation.
An information webinar on the call will take place on 6 March at 10:00-12:15 CET.