Circular Economy Joint Declaration 2024

Global environmental challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss pose significant risks to health and well-being. Linear resource extraction and processing account for half of total greenhouse gas emissions and more than 90% of biodiversity loss and water stress. Institutional and European stakeholders agree that transitioning to a circular economy is essential to address these existential crises.

At the World Circular Economy Forum 2024 in Brussels, the European political landscape, the Coordination Group of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform aimed to highlight this issue for incoming legislators and wrote a Joint Declaration.

They advocate for maintaining the Green Deal and circular economy as primary focuses for the next Commission and European Parliament, ensuring a just transition, supporting circular economy projects with sufficient funding, and maintaining high ambitions for a rapid shift from a linear economy.

Read their full declaration here.