Public Presentation: Results of the Circular Economy Solutions Dialogues (CESD) on EPR

This webinar will present the highlights and outcomes of the Circular Economy Solutions Dialogue (CESD) stream about Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR): From Extended to Ultimate Producer Responsibility (UPR) - The building blocks of a vision that needs to go global (October 2023 – January 2024).

After the successful completion of the Circular Economy Solutions Dialogues (CESD) which took place in 2021 and 2022 (final report), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH launched a second set of dialogues on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV). 

The CESD aim to nourish an exchange on how to advance the global circular economy agenda, focusing on selected priority issues. 

The CESD comprised of 4 successive and interactive online dialogues. They were multidisciplinary, and dialogue participants include ca. 30 policy makers, businesses, representatives of civil society, academia, think tanks and international organizations.

This final webinar will summarize the main takeaways from fours sessions about 1) The state of the art of EPR systems globally and in selected countries, 2) Designing successful EPR strategies: The first steps, 3) Implementation of potential tools, solutions and alternative approaches for EPR strategy deployment, 4) Financing EPR frameworks.