As part of the 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE) held in Gothenburg on 25-29 June, Green Budget Europe (GBE) and the Finnish Innovation Fund (Sitra) organised a policy session on Best practices and policy requirements to achieve circular economy objectives. The session, which was chaired by Janez Potocnik (Co-chair of UNEP International Resource Panel and former EU Commissioner for Environment), began with Aldo Ravazzi-Douvan (Chief Economist […]
Photo by Jonas Jacobsson on Unsplash On the occasion of the 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE) to be held on 25-29 June in Gothenburg, GBE will organise a policy session on circular economy on Wednesday 27 June at 13:45 hrs. The event, entitled “Best practices and policy requirements to achieve circular economy objectives”, builds on the commitment of many countries to promote circular economy objectives and to aim for a […]
This briefing highlights the shortcomings of the 2015 Circular Economy package, and looks at how the environmental and socially equitable reform of fiscal systems across the EU can support the transition to a circular economy. On 2 December 2015, the European Commission presented a revised Circular Economy package (COM/2015/614) with the stated aim of supporting the transition to a stronger and more circular economy where resources are used in a […]