On the occasion of the network’s 25th anniversary, WINPOL advisory partner ACR+ unveiled on 19 November 2019 a new campaign making the link between circular economy and climate mitigation, in presence of representatives of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), the European Commission, the European Committee of the Regions, and the European Environmental Bureau. Entitled “More circularity, less carbon”, the campaign aims to encourage decentralised public authorities to account for the carbon impact of the implementation of their circular economy strategy.
Behind the ambitious goal of reducing by 25% the emissions linked with local resource management by 2025, the “More circularity, less carbon” campaign takes into account the diversity of contexts, scope of actions and policy instruments across participating authorities. ACR+ members will be invited to assess their carbon footprint, set their own action plans, monitor the results, and put in common their good practices and findings, under the coordination of ACR+ secretariat. Best practices identified by the WINPOL project during its thematic seminars have been highlighted as solutions that could be used by participating public authorities to feed their action plans.
Read online the campaign's manifesto.
More on the “More circularity, less carbon” campaign: www.acrplus.org/morecircularitylesscarbon
