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What will this ambitious plan mean for circularity and sustainability in the built environment?

Take a look at what happened during the “Debate, Reflect, Advise – Get Level(s) right” Conference on 20th February in Brussels.

The ECESP is currently gathering feedback on its platform to enhance its support to circular economy stakeholder. Have your say!

What’s better than one solar panel facing up towards the sun and generating zero-carbon electricity? Two solar panels – or more specifically, double-sided solar panels that maximise power generation twice a day.

Under Horizon Europe, a new biodiversity partnership will be organised. It could help underpin the 2030 biodiversity strategy by identifying the causes of species and ecosystem loss and coming up with durable solutions to arrest the decline.

Farmland biodiversity in Europe is under huge pressure as farming intensifies, landscape features are removed and habitats are lost. Innovation in the agricultural sector – supported by smarter, greener policies and good practices like precision farming underwritten by satellite technology and better data use – can make a vast difference in the coming decades.

Monitoring biodiversity helps us to keep track of living species and understand changes affecting them. As the EU is about to release its renewed Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, what is the state of play?

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EU ambassadors today endorsed a political agreement reached between Finland's presidency of the Council and the European Parliament on a EU-wide classification system, or "taxonomy", which will provide businesses and investors with a common language to identify what economic activities can be considered environmentally sustainable.

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In response to the common perception that conducting a natural capital assessment is prohibitively complex and technical, the Natural Capital Coalition has created an interactive online Natural Capital Protocol Training. The training puts participants in the shoes of a sustainability or strategy executive, and through a series of videos guides them through the main stages of conducting a natural capital assessment. Some of the key questions discussed in the training are Why should you conduct a natural capital assessment? What is an appropriate scope to meet your objectives? And How can you interpret, validate and verify your assessment process and results. The training will be useful to businesses in any sector trying to understand their relationship with nature.

Relive the key moments of the European Business and Nature Summit! Watch video and read proceedings of the event.

November GPP News Alert

Since resource scarcity and waste management are among the biggest issues of the century, the Water2REturn project decided to tackle them by establishing an industrial symbiosis between three key industrial sectors: agriculture, food processing and wastewater treatment.

The Circular Flanders partnership acts as a hub for development of the circular economy in the Flemish region. Circular Flanders spokesperson Jan Verheyen provided details on its structure and approach, and in particular, its work to encourage circular economy thinking in purchasing decisions made by companies and public authorities.

New OECD report on innovation policies for sustainable development, focusing on low-carbon energy and smart-city initiatives

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) look set to transform the way all industries approach their business, from optimising production and energy systems, to how scientists analyse and use data on everything from predicting climate change and crop failure to understanding ecosystems.

Necessity is the mother of invention. This has never been truer than with ‘green energy’ technology. The combined challenge of tackling climate change, dwindling resources and environmental damage, while sustaining economic growth and social cohesion, call for some serious energy innovation.