ENGLISH CONTENT

CERES’s hackathons are redefining the concept of training. Here’s how the project guided 60 students and partner companies through 15 challenges across Europe, transforming the complexity of the green transition into concrete business concepts

The new JRC document on the textile Digital Product Passport clarifies how the Ecodesign Regulation could turn sustainability into verifiable data: product identification, granularity across model, batch and item level, operator responsibilities, differentiated access rights, interoperable standards, and the use of information for control, repair, resale and recycling. For the value chain, the real shift is from documents and claims to digital product governance throughout the life cycle

Business and Human Rights Centre (BHRC) assessed the 13 strategic projects located outside of the EU approved by the UE Commission under the mandate of the Critical Raw Materials (CRM) Act: “The issues are two-fold – lack of transparency over the process followed and lack of evidence that these projects are, in fact, going to be implemented sustainably”

Sergiy Moroz, European Environmental Bureau Policy Manager for Nature, talks to EconomiaCircolare.com about the association’s complaint regarding a private meeting in Stockholm between the Environment Commissioner and lobbyists from the industrial and mining sectors. And about deregulation, environment, democracy

In this interview, Marina Prados, Director of Policy Hub, argues that the EU’s first textile rules under ESPR will not yet be the final model, but the foundation of one. As the preparatory study enters its next phase, she explains why data, traceability and verification are becoming as important as performance requirements, and why recycled content, PEFCR and global supply-chain operability will define the credibility of the new framework

How will the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation affect the eco-design of textiles? Here is everything you need to know, based on what we know so far

Elisa Morgera, United Nations Special Rapporteur on climate and human rights, talks with us about multilateralism, climate justice, tax justice, deregulation, fossil fuels advertising

Symbolic actions can turn into concrete political results: from the North Seas to Italy, biologist and surfer Merijn Tinga (the Plastic Soup Surfer) explains why deposit return schemes are a key tool in the fight against plastic pollution