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Environmental and socio-economic impacts of Circular Economy in energy-intensive industries - Trustworthy document

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Environmental and trade effects of Circular Economy policies for the EU27

Circular Econonmy (CE) aims to reduce the use of primary resources by:

  • designing products to be resource-efficient and longer-lasting and by

  • maintaining and recirculating the value and the materials that make up these products at the end of their life.

This also reduces the need for additional energy and primary resource extraction.

Circular Economy as a powerful (and cheap!) contributor to the mitigation of climate change - Trustworthy Document

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GHG emissions reductions from 4 energy-intensive sectors under an ambitious Circular Economy scenario for the EU

What would be the cheapest, fastest, and very effective means to reduce the Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions of energy-intensive industries (steel, plastics, cement and aluminium), which are notoriously "hard to abate"? This is a major question ahead of the COP30 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém (Brazil), when all nations will debate their pathways towards net-zero emissions (or, at least, are supposed to, as per the Paris Agreement).

Sustainable Diet Handbook

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The Sustainable Diet  Handbook is the reference handbook I've been waiting for. It gives me all the practical information I need to eat in a truly sustainable way, and explains why. With this handbook, I know how to eat: