The EU urgently needs to advance coherent environmental sustainability policies in production and consumption cycles. Yet only a limited number of studies empirically examine policy coherence in practice within policy mixes for the circular economy. To address this gap, this paper unpacks the EU’s circular economy policy mix as a system of linked policies whose coherence is experienced by actors in the circular economy space, specifically in the electronics and ICT, batteries, automotive and critical raw materials sectors.
This article written by Vasileios Rizos and Valeria Zambianchi was originally published in the ‘Sustainable Production and Consumption’ journal and can be accessed here.
This paper was prepared in the context of the BATRAW project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101058359.
