This paper promotes solutions to reduce organic (livestock) and inorganic waste, and maps technologies, systems, and strategies for proper waste management.
This paper discusses solutions to promote competitiveness and innovation of Mediterranean SMEs in a circular economy.
This paper displays the horizontal approach towards cooperation on Circular Economy and Green Growth in the Mediterranean as well as challenges, success factors and lessons learned.
The first of four Thematic Working Groups created by the Interreg MED's Green Growth community focused on Sustainable Consumption and Production by enhancing Resource Efficiency in the Mediterranean agrofood sector as well as in urban areas through the implementation of the Smart City Concept.
This White Paper zooms in on the difficulties that companies face in:
- Measuring their environmental footprint and resource efficiency;
- The use of low-cost, low-tech, labour-intensive, and rudimentarily-equipped greenhouses;
- The lack of energy efficiency and renovation of EU buildings.
It then presents the projects' solutions and the benefits of resource efficiency for the environment and the economy. The projects were monitored according to the EU CEAP's indicator framework.
The new Action Plan by the European Commission announces initiatives along the entire life cycle of products, targeting their design, promoting circular economy processes, fostering sustainable consumption, and aiming to ensure that the resources used are kept in the EU economy for as long as possible.