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The circular economy - a transformative approach to tackle key drivers of biodiversity loss: Official launch of the EU Circular Talk

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The launch event on the topic will discuss how the circular economy as a framework for system solutions and transformation can help tackle key drivers of biodiversity loss. Speakers will present ways to strengthen the relationship between the circular economy and biodiversity goals.
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On 8 September, IUCN, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, L'Institut National de l'Economie Circulaire (INEC), the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, and the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform (ECESP) invite you to the #EUCircularTalks. Resource extraction and processing are responsible for more than 90% of global biodiversity loss and water stress. To halt and reverse biodiversity loss, nature conservation and restoration efforts on their own will not be enough. As expressed by the IPBES, we will need to rethink our production and consumption systems. The transition to a circular economy offers an actionable framework for such transformative change, redesigning the economy towards a nature-positive future, which includes tackling the overexploitation of resources, GHG emissions, and pollution associated with the current take-make-waste economy. To watch this event remotely, please click the green "ONSITE & LIVESTREAMED" button.
  • IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
  • IUCN Global Protected Areas Programme
  • IUCN Regional Office for Europe (EURO)
  • Ellen MacArthur Foundation
  • Institut national de l'économie circulaire (INEC)
  • The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
  • The European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform

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