Dr Dominic Hogg from Eunomia sets the scene for Circular Economy thinking, the current policy landscape and the drivers for organisations to adopt a Circular Economy approach to their business.
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Dominic Hogg, Eunomia, Go Green Business Breakfast - The Circular Economy, St Mary Redcliffe Church, 2nd December 2015
1. Circular Economy:
Policy Setting and Drivers
Go Green Breakfast Meeting
Dr Dominic Hogg
Chairman
Eunomia Research & Consulting Ltd
2nd December 2015
5. The Case
โข โthe costs of making stuff are becoming
unpredictable & expensiveโโฆ โresource
scarcity and tighter environmental standards
are here to stayโ
Source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation 2012
โข โIn a world of high and volatile resource
prices, a CE offers huge business
opportunitiesโ
Source: Chatham House briefing paper
6. Is the Economy โLinearโ? - Disposal
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10. An Alluring Identity?
Rising demand + increasing
volatility
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high commodity prices + a circular
economy
What if prices fall?
11. Josรฉ Antonio Ocampo (2013) Super-cycles of Commodity Cycles of Commodity
Prices Since the Mid-nineteenth Century, Presentation at the IMF, March 20 2013.
15. Do we Need Policy to Drive us
Circular?
โข If markets are โvolatileโ, can they drive the
behaviour we want to see?
โข Policy intervention is likely to helpโฆ
โข โฆ and itโs justified
DG Env โ waste targets review; DG Env โ potential for
ecological tax reform in EU-28; GLA / LWARB - Route map to
a circular economy for London.
17. Eco-design
Working with key OEMs and contract manufacturers in the
EU, US, Korea and China on handset eco-design
requirements, taking into account WEEE and RoHS
requirements and best practice for durability, repair and reuse
20. Ecolabel / GPP
JRC - Revision of ecolabel for
paper ; OECD โ sustainable
materials management; ZWS โ
specifications for reuse, repair and
remanufacture
21. Plastics / Marine Litter
0.25 -
15% plastic bottles*
77
Enough to
make
*@13g each
billion
DG Env โ MSFD โ sources of
microplastics and policies; strategies
for port reception facilities
22. Revised Waste Targets
DG Env โ development of reference model on
MSW management; support to impact assessment
on 1st and 2nd CE packages
23. Other
โข Food
โข Improve likelihood of donation
โข Labelling
โข Critical raw materials
โข Improved recovery through design and recovery
technologies
โข C&D
โข Pre-demolition guidelines
โข Indicators for env performance of buildings
โข Biomass and related products
โข Cascading
โข Sustainability of bioenergy