Opportunities and Approaches for Sustainable Public Procurement
The Office of Government Procurement have produced an excellent document outlining a range of approaches to embedding sustainability into public procurement. See link.
Industry
The built environment sector has a key role to play in the transition towards a decarbonized and circular economy. This section provides a suite of resources to support industry professionals across the whole value chain to embed circular economy principles in a holistic manner.
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Best Practice Guidance for Handling Asbestos
The best practice guide is in direct response to Recommendation No. 15 of the current National Hazardous Waste Management Plan 2021-2027.
3D Modelling Tool for Tracking the Flow of On-Site Construction and Demolition Waste
This publication from the CityLoops project provides an overview of an interesting tool developed by the South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences that tracks construction and demolition waste during the actual demolition process.
Towards a Circular Economy in the Built Environment
This report published by the Circular Buildings Coalition examines how to overcome market, finance and ownership challenges.
Circular Transitions Indicators V4.0
This WBCSD publication includes contributions from 30 companies who explore the level of circularity in their companies, the need for targets, and how do we monitor improvements resulting from circular activities.
Circular Material Library
Wonderful resource focusing on material circularity, see https://circularmateriallibrary.org/
Winning the Race to Net Zero
This Insight Report published by the World Economic Forum in 2022 provides a CEO guide to Climate Advantage.
The Net-Zero Carbon Cities Building Value Framework
This briefing paper published by the World Economic Forum in 2022 presents the Building Value Framework, which proposes a more holistic decision-making approach that recognizes the importance of social and environment outputs aligned to system performance.
Report on Critical Raw Materials and the Circular Economy
This 2018 report published by the European Commission evaluated the current state-of-play to ensure a coherent and effective approach in the future.
Reimagining the Waste Framework Directive
This 2023 Whitepaper by Eunomia explores an EU Regulatory Framework for a Circular Economy consistent with 1.5 degrees. A recast of the framework as a Resources Framework Directive is recommended to guide the continued reduction in material consumption across the EU economy in a way that most effectively and efficiently delivers decarbonization, as well as
How to procure circular?
This report contains lessons learned from more than 30 circular procurement pilot projects and other activities performed within the Interreg NSR project ProCirc (2018- 2023). The report has been developed by Bax and Company based on an analysis of pilot case studies and interviews with piloting organizations conducted during 2021-2022.
Our Shared Understanding
This 2023 report published by the Circular Buildings Coalition (CBC) is a summary of core concepts that inform the transition to a circular economy.