Policy webinar - Current status and challenges of the circular economy: Toward a growth-oriented resource-autonomous economy
17
Mar
2026

'Circular economy' has become container concept that covers a very broad spectrum of human activities. Over the last decades national governments and supra-governmental organizations such as the European Commission have used various policy-tools, to promote environmentally sustainable human activities and behavior that ideally have a zero environmental impact.

Joint venture established in 1987 by the European Commission (DG GROW) and the Japanese Government (METI) for promoting all forms of industrial, trade and investment cooperation between the EU and Japan.