Circular & Regenerative Economy News around the world
This monthly selection of articles has been brought to you by the Circulab Community - a network of 100+ circular economy experts spread across 22+ territories.
— Global News and Trends —
EcoWatch - Half of Pasture Lands on Earth Degraded by Climate Change and Overuse, Threatening Food Supply of Billions: UN Report (in english)
As much as half of the natural pasture land on Earth has been degraded by the impacts of climate change and overexploitation.
Cornell Chronicle - Study maps human uptake of microplastics across 109 countries (in english)
Southeast Asian countries top the global per capita list of dietary uptakes of microplastics, while China, Mongolia and the United Kingdom top the list of countries that breathe the most microplastics, according to a new study mapping microplastic uptake across 109 countries.
— Europe, Middle East and Africa —
Greenpeace France - Environment: what is Europe for? (in french)
Our climate, our water, our air, our food, our nature... The European Union has a concrete impact in our daily lives! The composition of the next Parliament, which will be decisive on these issues, depends on your mobilization.
BusinessGreen News - 'Travelling in the wrong direction': Government reveals increase in UK car use, as bus and bicycle journeys fall (in english)
Government accused of sleepwalking towards a traffic-heavy future as new stats show the number of miles travelled by motor vehicles rose 2.2 per cent last year
BusinessGreen News - 'Concrete and significant step': European Council formally adopts sweeping corporate due diligence rules (in english)
Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive will require firms operating in the EU to strengthen efforts to tackle environmental and human rights impacts in their supply chains
Circular Online - ESA hails “seismic” consultation on EfW inclusion in ETS (in english)
The Environmental Services Association said the proposals represent a “seismic shift” to waste treatment in the UK.
Circular Online - Morrisons rollout Podback coffee pod recycling scheme across UK stores (in english)
Morrisons to become the “first” UK supermarket to roll out dedicated Podback coffee pod collection points in over 350 stores nationwide.
Sustainable news - France accelerates its decarbonization, but misses its climate objective (in french)
France is keeping pace with plans to decarbonize its economy, but its territory's forests and soils are not absorbing as much CO2 as expected, narrowly preventing the country from meeting its climate targets and catching up with the delay accumulated during the previous decade.
Sustainable news - Stress test: insurance organizations facing climate change (in french)
Droughts, storms, floods: the ACPR, responsible for monitoring the activity of banks and insurance companies, presented on Wednesday the results of a climate stress test exercise, intended to check the solvency of insurance organizations facing to climate change.
Circular Online - Over 1,200 battery fires in bin lorries and waste sites last year (in english)
There were over 1,200 battery fires in bin lorries and waste sites in the UK in 2023, according to research by Material Focus.
— North America —
BusinessGreen News - California proposes $22m for climate disclosure law (in english)
Companies will be required to report their emissions and climate-related risks to their business
Geo - Thousands of bottles in the sea: a company recycles glass into sand to fight coastal erosion (in french)
In New Orleans, recycling company Glass Half Full returns glass to its original state: sand, used in coastal erosion control (CNN).
— Asia Pacific —
Packaging Europe - Dow and SCG Chemicals target 200kt recycled plastics in Asia Pacific by 2030 (in english)
Dow and SCG Chemicals have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to accelerate advanced and mechanical recycling technologies in the Asia Pacific region – aiming to process 200kt of plastic waste annually by 2030.
pv magazine International - Chinese scientists apply new models for sustainable wind, solar investments in Belt and Road Initiative countries (in english)
To assess renewable energy, particularly solar and wind, considering the limited supply of input materials, researchers from Shenzhen University established novel hybrid multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) models that include a circular economy principles, waste potential and life cycle assessment (LCA).
