UNEP’s One Planet Network, the UNDP and the UN Climate Change secretariat have developed a practical toolbox that will help countries identify, prioritise, implement and track circular economy measures with a view to implementing their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and making them more ambitious.
The FURN360 project developed a training course intended to familiarise furniture sector professionals with the transition to a circular economy model. It is a free-of-charge set of online modules offering 80 hours of training to understand the shift needed in the furniture industry to engage in a circular economy. The goal is to make the sector more sustainable and competitive.
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.
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) will require EU business to report on several new sustainability topics, including their circular economy performance. However, only 2% of businesses currently comply with the disclosure requirements on resource use and the circular economy. Is your organisation ready?
This revised monitoring framework measures progress towards the circular economy considering the interlinkages between circularity and the EU’s climate neutrality goal, the zero-pollution ambition for a healthier and fairer planet, competitiveness, sustainability and securing materials supply.
The Circularity Assessment Tool enables you to evaluate your business or a product from a circular perspective. You can use various frameworks to help create a baseline overview of how your organisation is striving to adopt a circular approach.
Closing the green skills gap is crucial to enabling a circular economy. Circle Academy is a gamified e-learning platform that boosts mass adoption of these skills.
The BUS-GoCircular project aimed to foster a green energy workforce in the construction sector. It was funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, and ran from September 2021 to March 2024.
The project produced a huge amount of training materials, such as the Train the Trainers’ programme guide. All of them can be consulted on the project home page.
The EU International Partnerships Academy (INTPA) is the European Commission’s free and public learning platform for development.
It offers an e-course and an introductory webinar to the circular economy that aim to strengthen your understanding of circularity, policy measures that accelerate the circular transition, and the opportunities arising for EU partner countries from the circular economy
The research project Assessing the social impacts of circular strategies in the apparel value chain is a collaborative 4-year research project supported by the Laudes Foundation. This document presents evidence of the social impact of the circular economy in the textiles and apparel value chain in India, Spain and the Netherlands.
