Policy Release

• Circular economy for textiles: taking responsibility to reduce, reuse and recycle textile waste and boosting markets for used textiles

  5 July 2023Today, the Commission is proposing rules to make producers responsible for the full lifecycle of textile products and to support the sustainable management of textile waste&n...

  2023-07-10

  

• Update: China ratifies National Ecology Day to enhance public awareness, actions

  This photo taken on June 8, 2023 shows corals in the waters of Fenjiezhou Island of Hainan Province, south China (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature on We...

  2023-07-03

  

• EU carbon border adjustment mechanism: Implications for climate and competitiveness

  The EU has the world's largest carbon-pricing system, the emissions trading system (ETS). Emissions pricing can encourage industrial decarbonisation, but it also risks carbon leakage, whereby EU c...

  2023-06-21

  

• Circular economy: Commission recommends actions to boost recycling in 18 Member States at risk of missing waste targets*

  8 June 2023In a report published today, the Commission identifies Member States at risk of not meeting the 2025 preparing for re-use and recycling targets for municipal and all packagin...

  2023-06-19

  

• New EU regulatory framework for batteries: Setting sustainability requirements

  Given the important role they play in the roll-out of zero-emission mobility and the storage of intermittent renewable energy, batteries are a crucial element in the EU's transition to a climate n...

  2023-06-12