Sixteen NGOs called on the EU and its Member States on Wednesday 9 December to ensure that the Recovery and Resilience Facility of the EU’s Economic Recovery Plan be fully dedicated to the transition to a circular, carbon-neutral and pollution-free economy, focusing on waste prevention and reuse.
Fearing the temptation of the EU27 to fall back into the same trap by protecting “the same polluting infrastructures and technologies”, they are seeking:
– full alignment of RFF funds with EU environmental policies and instruments, particularly the EU Taxonomy Regulation;
– using the Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) to guide policy dialogue in the preparation of national recovery and resilience plans;
– investment in infrastructure and systems for waste prevention, product re-use, and preparing for re-use;
– priority access to funding for circular SMEs and social economy actors with business models focusing on waste prevention and re-use.
“We want to remind the EU and its member states that they will not be able to deliver on their climate, pollution, and economic recovery objectives altogether without fundamentally and quickly changing their economic model”, comments Nathan Dufour of Zero Waste Europe.
See the press release: https://bit.ly/3718jFx (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)