India Circular Economy Forum ICEF2022 by the International Council for the Circular Economy to be held from June 2-3, 2022 at India Habitat Center, New Delhi.
Get latest articles and stories on Business at LatestLY. India Circular Economy Forum #ICEF2022 by the International Council for the Circular Economy to be held from June 2-3, 2022 at India Habitat Center, New Delhi. The Opening ceremony will be attended by Piyush Goyal, Minister of Textiles, around 9:15- 9:30 am, and Amitabh Kant, CEO Niti Ayog and Kari Herlevi Project Director Circular Economy at SITRA will be the Guest of HONOR. Business News | India Circular Economy Forum, a Futuristic Approach to Build and Scale Up a Circular Economy.
High-level authorities from Latin America and Europe participated in the first event taking place in the framework of the regional Declaration of Circular Cities.
Cities across Europe are increasing their ambitions to embrace a circular economy. In this context, a wide-ranging landscape of urban circularity practices is emerging. This article aims to elaborate on the spatial factors fostering or hampering the embedding of Urban Circularity Practices (UCPs) in the Brussels Capital Region (BCR). The article thus addresses the following set of questions: What do circularity ambitions imply at the urban scale and what is the landscape of practices aimed at realizing urban circularity? What are the spatial implications of urban circularity practices? What could the role of urban design and spatial planning be in embedding and mainstreaming UCPs? These questions are explored both theoretically, through a literature review, and empirically, through case-study research. We show that access to spaces and land emerges as one of the most recurrent barriers to embedding UCPs in BCR, and in other European cities too. We argue that real estate price is one of