EU

European Green Deal

• An ambitious proposal to restructure the EU's economy into fair,
sustainable, and prosperous.
• The European Green Deal pledges to align all EU efforts and policies
around environmental goals and make use of synergies.
• It emphasizes the need to avoid transferring companies with adverse
environmental consequences outside the EU's boundaries.
• People and sustainability are at the heart of the Green Deal.
• Human rights and due diligence can be valuable instruments in
accomplishing these objectives.
The Need
• creating new commercial possibilities.
CEAP
• The Action Plan outlined 54 initiatives as well as four waste-related legislation proposals.
• Action Plan, which contained trash, reuse, and recycling objectives to be fulfilled by 2030 and
2035 and new duties for separate textile and bio waste collection.
• The Action Plan included cross-cutting strategies to foster systemic change through innovation
and Investments and various policy areas, material flows, and sectors.
Results
• By the end of 2019, all 54 actions have been adopted or implemented.
• Jobs connected to circular economy activities rose by 6% in the EU between 2012 and 2016,
according to Eurostat.
• At least 14 Member States, eight regions, and 11 cities have been encouraged to develop circular
economy policies due to the action plan
First circular economy action plan
• The European Commission approved the first circular economy action
plan in 2015.
• The action plan outlined clear and ambitious activities that would
encompass the whole life cycle.
• From production to consumption, waste management and the
secondary raw materials market, as well as a new waste legal
proposal.