3 reasons why embracing the circular economy can be powerful for middle income countries
In Chile, we have a dream that many share: to live in a world without waste. Such a dream requires a move towards a circular economy, where waste and pollution are designed out, products and materials are kept in use, and natural systems are regenerated.
Wherever you live, a circular transition is crucial to building a resilient economy, protecting social wellbeing, and mitigating the climate crisis. However, it can be especially powerful for middle income countries, given the impact to jobs and our particular vulnerability to the effects of the climate crisis. Understanding these opportunities brings us one step closer to the change that the circular transition can bring.
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Circular Economy Coalition launched for Latin America and Caribbean
Bridgetown, Barbados, 1 February, 2021 – A new initiative to support Latin America and the Caribbean in the transition to a circular economy as part of the COVID-19 recovery was launched today.
The Regional Coalition on Circular Economy was announced during a virtual side event at the XXII Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of the region, hosted by Barbados and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).
The Coalition will support access to financing by governments and the private sector, with special emphasis on small and medium enterprises (SMEs), in order to promote resource mobilization for innovation and the implementation of specific projects in the region.
Restart 2021: Rising to the challenges of the environmental agenda
Photo by Jan Kronies / Unsplash / 26 Jan 2021
Statement prepared for delivery at the 153
rd meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives
Ambassador Coimbra,
Excellencies, colleagues
I am honoured on behalf of UNEP, to address you at the first meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives in 2021. It is indeed not the start to the year we had hoped for and we still have some way to journey as we seek to end the pandemic. As we scroll our newsfeeds, it has also become increasingly evident that environmental crises are part and parcel of the journey ahead. Wildfires, hurricanes, temperature records, plagues of locusts, floods and droughts, were so commonplace they do not even always make the news.