SUCCESS CASES

The Ministry for Ecological Transition, its Spanish Circular Economy Strategy: Spain Circular 2030 and the Public-Private Pact for the Circular Economy

The Challenge Addressed

The European Commission has set as one of its main challenges in the coming years to transform the way we produce and consume in our society, moving from a linear model to a circular model, in which resources are used to the maximum.

The challenge for the Spanish Government is to ensure that this transformation becomes an opportunity for Spain, taking advantage of the transformation to improve the competitiveness of our industry and our companies, boost job creation and achieve a fair transition that benefits all citizens. Regulations and Directives are transposed, but policies are more difficult to transfer. Each country must adopt the plan or package proposed by the Commission and implement it in the most advantageous way for its companies and citizens.

Novadays' Contribution

In recent months, Novadays has examined in detail the way in which other European countries have developed their circular economy strategies, studying the results and outputs achieved and the desirability of implementing, where appropriate, similar measures in Spain.

Subsequently, an exhaustive diagnosis of the situation of the production and consumption system in Spain was carried out, both globally and in different sectors, in order to detect the strengths and weaknesses of the Spanish economy and society as a whole to facilitate adaptation to the circular economy.

Finally, Novadays has collaborated with senior officials in the drafting of the Spanish Strategy, defining a document that presents the long-term vision and strategic objectives of the whole country for the transformation from the linear economy to the circular economy; and has supported the Ministry in the promotion of a Pact for the Circular Economy to which companies and civil society have been invited to adhere.

With all this, the Novadays team has strived to outline its particular contribution to the birth of a new model of life, more efficient, clean and responsible, in which both producers and consumers are aware of the role they play, helping to build a system in which resources are used as much as possible, which will result in a better quality of life for present and future generations.

Impact and Results Obtained

  • Approval by the Government of the Spanish Circular Economy Strategy: Spain Circular 2030.
  • Approval of the 1st Action Plan of the General State Administration to promote the Strategy from all public entities of the same. The I Circular Economy Action Plan is an ordered instrument of the 116 measures arranged by eleven ministries that make up a coordinated and complementary response that reinforces each of the individual measures proposed to achieve the objectives defined for the year 2030 and that in turn maintain coherence with the initiatives and policies undertaken at the community level.
  • Public presentation and signing of the Pact for the Circular Economy.
  • Creation of the Circular Economy Advisory Council, a body created to facilitate the governance of the Strategy.

Novadays and the Biodiversity Foundation promote Circular Public Procurement as a key instrument in the coming years

The number of entities adhering to the Pact for a Circular Economy now stands at 359, from 37 different subsectors

The PERTE of the Circular Economy will accelerate the implementation of the Spain Circular Strategy 2030.

The Government of Spain presents the Spanish Circular Economy Strategy: Spain Circular 2030.