1. Brussels-Capital Region
Medium-sized European City :
162 km² - 11% of green spaces
1,2 million inhabitants day consumers
workers (+8% )
200 multinationals, SME’s
Green party in the government:
2004 – 2009
2009 – 2014
Environment, Energy and Urban renovation

2. Local and regional authorities are active partners
2004 – 2009
Behaviour change
Public procurement
Legal and economic incentives
Consumption
Strategy
Planning
Monitoring
Infrastructures
Business Support Scheme
Legal and Economic framework
Production
Multistakeholders

3. AA A2M A2M Pierre Blondel R2D2 Architectes Associés COOPARCH
O2 architects
R2D2
Architectes Associés
COOPARCH
B architecten
A2M

4. Local and regional authorities are active partners
Behaviour change
Public procurement
Legal and economic incentives
Consumption
Strategy
Planning
Monitoring
Infrastructures
Business Support Scheme
Legal and Economic framework
2010 – 2015
Production
Multistakeholders
2010 – 2015

5. Employment-Environment Alliance:
Employment-Environment Alliance
Water
Resources
Sustainable construction
Sustainable food
13/12/2012
R4R expert group meeting, Athens, 13 December 2012

6. Employment-Environment Alliance – General objectives
To promote the creation of jobs in Brussels in businesses in the green sectors
To strengthen the presence of Brussels’ businesses in these sectors
To support the transition of Brussels towards greater sustainability

7. 250 public and private ACTORS
Brussels
Greenbizz

8. Employment-Environment Alliance Process
Sponsors:
Minister of environment
Minister of economy
Steering committee
200 actions
Working groups
250 players
Networking
A sector in motion

9. Public Authorities as Bridging actor
Governance: Enhanced inter-governmental cooperation
Production

10. Employment-Environment Alliance:
Employment-Environment Alliance
Circular economy
Production
+ Urban metabolism

11. Transition of the economy – timeline
Focus
- Energy
- Sectorial niches
Public-private action plans on
- Sustainable construction
- Resources Waste
- Water
- Sustainable food
Public-private actions plans on circular economy
- Construction
- Food
- Logistic
- Retail
+ transversal
+ territorial
approaches

12. Leading attitudes Strategy concerns everybody
With Exemplary public authorities
Based on partnership and calls for projects
Empowerment  and autonomy
Relied on Local stakeholders

13. ACR+: the Association of Cities & Regions for sustainable Resource management23
countries in 85
members
running EU-funded projects 10
20+
years of experience
What we do:
Service to our members: exchange of best practices, publications, weekly & quarterly newsletters, conferences, webinars, support to build projects & involvement in EU funded projects
Project work: EU funded projects / Internal projects
Our areas of activities:
Awareness raising & communication
Operational instruments (indicators, testing of solutions, etc.)
Legal and economic instruments
Strategy and planning
Cooperation and capacity building 32
published since 2004
reports
acrplus.org

14. ACR+ tools for circular economy planning
Production
Table of content
INTRODUCTION
Part 1: CLARIFYING CIRCULAR ECONOMY
1. WHAT DOES “CIRCULAR ECONOMY” MEAN?
1.1. Basic concepts
1.2. Objectives of circular economy
2. ON WHAT PRINCIPLES SHOULD A CIRCULAR ECONOMY STRATEGY BE BASED?
2.1. The “multi-R” hierarchy
2.2. Territorial hierarchy
2.3. Shared governance
2.4. Integrated planning
3. WHAT ARE THE KEY AREAS OF INTERVENTION?
3.1. Material resources management
3.2. Sustainable consumption
3.3. Sustainable production
3.4. Priority sectors
Part 2: CIRCULAR ECONOMY PLANNING IN PRACTICE
4. WHAT (FIRST) FUNDAMENTAL INITIATIVES SHOULD LOCAL AND REGIONAL AUTHORITIES TAKE?
4.1. Develop a cross-sector approach at the political and administrative level
4.2. Identify potential stakeholders
4.3. Identify parallel policy actions in progress or planned
4.4. Establish a diagnosis of the territorial metabolism
4.5. Gather information on experiences from similar territories
4.6. Organise co-creation
5. WHAT INSTRUMENTS TO USE? WHICH TRANSVERSAL AND THEMATIC MEASURES?
5.1. Potential instruments
5.2. Cross-sector measures
5.3. Thematic measures
6. WHAT ROADMAP AND MONITORING TO ADOPT?
CONCLUSIONS

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