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Blog: How trade agreements can contribute to creating a global circular fashion economy

April 1, 2020

A transition towards a more resource efficient and circular economy has broad linkages with international trade6, in general and especially for textiles. This is why trade agreements can contribute to creating a global circular textiles economy. With Europe aiming for a circular economy, with a Circular Textiles Strategy, trade agreements play a crucial role in a twofold manner.

Blog: How can we create a strong regulatory framework for circular fashion?

March 6, 2020

To foster circular fashion in Europe, a regulatory framework is needed that provides harmonised transparency, traceability, verification and market surveillance. These boundary conditions can only be established by government policies including expanding the Ecodesign directive, revising national end-of-waste criteria and banning incinerating and landfilling unsold clothes.

Blog: Five economic incentives that can revolutionise the fashion sector

February 5, 2020

The overall intention of economic incentives, such as CO2 pricing, is to solve a major market failure in our economy: external costs along the value chain resulting from placing products on the market are not included in the price. Capturing these impacts by “true pricing” will make circular fashion and services cheaper and fast fashion more expensive.

Blog: Five ways innovation policies can accelerate circular fashion

January 14, 2020

Innovation policies can accelerate circular business in the fashion industry. They can not only help but are in fact indispensible for the transition to a low-carbon circular economy. Effective ones will accelerate the new regime and destabilise the old one, fostering a better response to social and environmental challenges.

Vlog: Four priorities for circular economy policy at EU project concluding conference

January 7, 2020

At the final meeting of an important research project called "R2Pi" about circular economy policies on 24 October 2019 in Brussels, a video message by Arthur was recorded with his core message for European circular economy policies.

EU Sustainable Finance Rulebook breakthrough for investments in climate goals

December 20, 2019

Brussels, 20 December 2019: A few days ago the EU Council, Parliament and Commission reached an agreement on a sustainable finance rulebook for investments supporting the climate goals. Ecopreneur.eu welcomes the adopted regulation that will support green investments without adding…

Ecopreneur.eu Letter: Green companies urge EU to implement Green Deal with strong price incentives

December 10, 2019

Green companies including about 2900 SMEs and 100 large businesses call upon the EU to launch a Green Deal with a Circular Economy Action Plan generating strong traction to low-carbon circular products and services. Click here for the letter and…

Blog: 3 Best practices from The Netherlands for a European Circular Economy

November 22, 2019

About 50 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions are related to materials and the manufacturing of products. Strong Circular Economy policies are therefore needed to meet the climate goals. Ecopreneur.eu has worked out far-reaching proposals as input for the EU Green Deal.

EU Sustainable Finance Plan risks harming green SMEs

November 19, 2019

Tomorrow co-legislators hold another trilogue negotiation round on the Sustainable Finance Taxonomy. Ecopreneur.eu is concerned that the current proposal will in fact reduce the access to finance for green SMEs.

Paper: What is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?

November 15, 2019

To obtain all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), tough interventions are needed that address the problems head-on. Only the transition to a circular economy can create the required systems change. A new Ecopreneur.eu paper explains how the SDGs and circular economy are connected and what measures are needed.