Environmental economics - nature capital, biodiversity, circular economy

A research programme exploring sustainable pathways through circular economy practices and natural capital management.

Bruegel’s Environmental Economics Programme analyses potential gains and losses linked to accounting the value of nature and biodiversity into the economic activity. It looks at how circular economy practices can integrate with sustainable management of natural resources to foster ecological and economic resilience.  

 This programme aims to propose solutions on how to bring resource efficiency goals into the policies and instruments on the agenda of the next term of the EU institutions, and to mainstream evidence about the contribution that the circular economy could make to achieving high-profile strategic goals. Moreover, it covers the topic of financial tools for biodiversity, with a purpose to share the latest practices and stimulate a better-informed policy discussion on the topic.  

This stream of work was funded by the Sitra Foundation and the Heinrich Böll Foundation. 

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