Goverments Going Circular - presentation WorldWatchInstitute

Joost Brinkman

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Governments Going Circular : a global scan for best practices of governmental initiatives on Circular Economy

Taking fiscal measures that discourage linear business or encourage circular business

Offering financial support to private or public initiatives

Using public procurement power to act as launching customer

Governments have a key role in smoothing the path to a circular economy and can employ multiple instruments

Develop symbiotic partnerships with circular accelerators

Eliminating old, developing new, or changing current legislation

Subsidies

Public Procurement

Laws & Regulation

Partnerships

Fiscal Measures

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Some examples

Recovery & Reuse of Resources

Facilitate Sharing Platforms Promote via Procurement

Waste limitation

• Extax

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Ex’tax: Shift tax from labour to resources

Source: ex-tax.com

1. What sense of urgency ?

2. Focus on waste reduction and resource optimization

3. Local is leading

4. In developing countries private sector takes the lead

5. The power of Public Procurement is underutilized

6. There is no one-solution-fits-all

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Conclusions from the GovsGoCircular scan

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The road ahead

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and the report

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