Let’s talk about ETV as a tool to foster circular economy value chains and business models

 

The Environmental Technology Verification scheme helps to bridge the transformation of industrial ecosystems towards circularity with the innovation ecosystem and the objectives of Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP 2.0). The webinar, organized by LIFEproETV project and secretariat in cooperation with ECESP, provided an important insight into ETV and how it can support the transition towards the circular economy.

Among other distinguished guests and experts, Ladeja Godina Košir contributed on how verification is helping technology providers bring new innovative environmental technologies to market through building competitive advantage for green and circular innovation, as well as how ECESP can support ETV in its challenges.

The objectives of the webinar and the topics discussed :

  • Raise awareness about ETV among EU, national and regional policy makers as a tool to accelerate innovations for circular economy business models, value chains and industrial symbiosis,

  • Discuss with businesses the challenges in adopting technical innovations to become more circular and ways of overcoming them,

  • Discuss with policy makers and industries how to mainstream ETV in EU, national and regional policies, strategies and tools taking into account:

    • the potential of ETV to deliver credible data on the performance of new environmental technologies to meet the business needs for recycling, reuse, segregation, recovery of resources, increase the recycled content or remanufacturing in industrial processes production and use new secondary resource based materials as well as design of new products

    • if and how ETV could contribute to a standard methodology for assessing the impacts of products, organisations and value chains on the environment like OEF/PEF indicated in CE policies related to green claims?

    • if and how ETV may support setting out sustainability principles and specific requirements linked to environmental aspects foreseen in the revision of the Ecodesign directive?

    • the objective of ETV to foster market uptake of green early market products with innovation and how it fits into the innovation ecosystems for circular economy at national/regional level,

    • Discuss the implications for the ETV Programme resulting from linking ETV as a policy support tool to facilitate the shift from linear to circular businesses.

You can watch this insightful webinar at the link.

All the presentations are available for download here.

 
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