Global consumption of materials such as biomass, fossil fuels, metals and minerals is expected to double in the next forty years, while annual waste generation is projected to increase by 70 per cent by 2050. Moreover, half of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and more than 90 per cent of biodiversity loss and water stress come from resource extraction and processing.
It’s a major component of the European Green Deal, as detailed in European Commission’s Circular Economy Action Plan published earlier this year: “Scaling up the circular economy… will make a decisive contribution to achieving climate neutrality by 2050.” CICERONE’s SRIA supports this aim by helping owners and funders of European circular economy programmes in aligning priorities and approaching the circular economy transition in a systemic way.
SRIA was developed based on eight priority themes (biomass and biotechnologies, chemicals, construction and demolition, food, plastic, raw materials, waste and water) and builds on four societal areas that face sustainability challenges (urban areas, industrial systems, value chains and territory and sea) to identify priority areas to tackle EU region-wide issues and facilitate the circular economy transition.
Source: Climate-KIC
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