Ecopreneur.eu has kicked-off with a three-year EU-Horizon 2020 funded project called "ORIENTING" to develop a robust and operational methodology for the life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) of products and services. The "S" from "Sustainability" indicates that this LCA method will…
Ecopreneur.eu has kicked-off with a EU-COSME funded project “Fashion For Change”. Over the next three years, we will help SMEs, designers and start-ups from the European fashion sector scale-up and accelerate their sustainable businesses while increasing awareness about circular fashion…
Photograph © European Union 2021 – EP/Alexis Haulot On February 10, the European Parliament has adopted a report by MEP Jan Huitema (Renew) with calls for tighter EU consumption and recycling rules. Ecopreneur.eu greatly welcomes the report, which was written in…
In a position paper, Ecopreneur.eu and its member organisations call on the European Commission to integrate a number of essential economic, regulatory and educational instruments into the new “EU Strategy for Sustainable Textiles”. The goal of the forthcoming Strategy, which…
Together with our Dutch research partner TNO (www.tno.nl), Ecopreneur.eu is putting green SMEs into the starting blocks for new HORIZON EU research and innovation projects. The programme runs from 2021 until 2027 and has a budget of about €95.5 billion.…
In a response to a public consultation by the European Commission about “Reducing packaging waste – review of rules” (initiative 12263), the European Sustainable Business Federation and its member organisations highlight the importance of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), pointing out…
The EU has set aside €265 billion for the green transition. Over the next seven years, 37% of the „Next Generation EU“ COVID-19 recovery budget will be explicitly reserved for green investments, including the transition toward a fair, carbon neutral…
Lack of access to finance is a major obstacle for SMEs. Since most eco-innovations come from SMEs, a good taxonomy could greatly accelerate the circular economy in Europe. For this reason, the European Sustainable Business Federation strongly supports policy objectives…
In a letter sent to Prime Minister António Costa, the European Sustainable Business Federation calls on the forthcoming Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council to support SMEs in their transition towards a low-carbon circular economy by making best use of…
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