Monitoring the progress of circular economy policies requires robust estimates of the environmental impacts due to the consumption in individual countries also considering those effects beyond their...
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circular economy Indicator
In January 2018, the European Commission adopted the first EU monitoring framework for the circular economy, aimed at tracking the progress of the EU and the Member States. Following the launch of the new...
The EU must continue its efforts to reduce consumption of materials and generation of waste to achieve a more circular economy according to the European Commission’s revised Circular Economy...
The Biomass Utilisation Factor (BUF) is a new metric combining cascading use and production efficiency into one indicator to investigate the circularity of materials for the circular bioeconomy. Cascading use...
The Biomass Utilisation Factor (BUF): A simple indicator to calculate circularity of biomass and bio-based products
nova-Institute publishes a novel indicator that enables to capture the circularity of biomass under consideration of both the cascading use principle and the efficiency of the biomass utilisation.
Lessons learned from the development of a Good Practice Catalogue and a circularity rating system for wood products
The concept of a circular economy (CE) is gaining increasing attention from policy makers, industry, and academia. There is a rapidly evolving debate on definitions, limitations, the contribution to a wider sustainability...
Report of the rapporteurs on workshops held on 16th November 2017 discussing the outcomes of the EU 2012 Bioeconomy Strategy review and how to move the bioeconomy forward