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REDISA: South Africa’s model for a circular economy
22/05/2015
REDISA: South Africa’s model for a circular economy
A South African scheme, introduced as part of a drive to improve waste management, could provide some useful lessons to countries, regions and municipalities that are seeking to establish more integrated approaches to recycling in the move towards a circular economy...
Interview with Andrew Prag, speaker at the 18th European Forum on Eco-innovation
04/05/2015
Interview with Andrew Prag, speaker at the 18th European Forum on Eco-innovation
As part of the project, the OECD published in 2013 a study documenting the international landscape of environmental labelling and information schemes [1] . It found a rapid expansion in the number of eco-labels, especially in the last few years. This raises questions about the multiplicity of...
Building on eco-innovative excellence in the regions of Europe
07/04/2015
Building on eco-innovative excellence in the regions of Europe
The universities and research institutes involved in the project are all working on advanced technologies that offer the potential to extract resources from waste streams. For example, project partner VITO (Vision on Technology, Flanders) is studying processes to recover useful chemicals from...
Facilitating innovation to underpin low-carbon transformation
24/03/2015
Facilitating innovation to underpin low-carbon transformation
In September 2014, the commission oversaw the publication of a major report, Better Growth, Better Climate, which makes the case for the economic benefits of efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. A central finding of the report was that in the next 15 years, a ‘deep structural...
Overcoming resistance in the transition to sustainability
24/02/2015
Overcoming resistance in the transition to sustainability
Eco-innovation is often presented as a win-win: better for the environment, but also better economically. Do you agree that it is? Eco-innovation is a step in the right direction but it's not going to get us to the target we have set ourselves in the climate change area or for biodiversity or...
The circular economy is making good progress in the regions of France
27/11/2014
The circular economy is making good progress in the regions of France
François-Michel Lambert has been a member of the French National Assembly since 2012 and an environmental activist since 1992. He is a member of the Why did you launch the Club of parliamentarians for the circular economy? What are its objectives...
Innovative funding: climate bonds and decarbonisation
17/11/2014
Innovative funding: climate bonds and decarbonisation
Climate Bonds Initiative CEO Sean Kidney answered questions on current developments in climate bonds, and the possibility to use bond finance for resource efficiency. Bonds refer to money loaned, usually to finance large-scale projects, in return for repayments over a long period with a fixed rate...
Understanding bio-based value chains: the case of green gas
04/11/2014
Understanding bio-based value chains: the case of green gas
Why did you start looking into bio-based supply chains? Michiel van Galen: Our part of the project was originally developed at LEI, but later linked to the Interreg IVA major project GroenGas-GrünesGas, for which biogas and green gas is the main...
Lessons on eco-innovation: Portugal and ECOPOL  
07/10/2014
Lessons on eco-innovation: Portugal and ECOPOL  
ECOPOL's partners came from Austria, Finland, Germany, Greece, Portugal and Sweden, with some additional partners - from France, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Turkey - joining later in the project. One of the Portuguese partners was the Portuguese Innovation Agency (AdI - Agência de...
Interview with Gerhard Hrebicek of iconVienna
23/09/2014
Interview with Gerhard Hrebicek of iconVienna
iconVienna is an annual business and investment summit that aims to encourage business connections and explore investment opportunities between east and west Europe. The summit was first held in 2005, and is organised by the Vienna-based European Brand Institute, an independent organisation that...

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