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European Union Resource Efficiency Initiative Circular economy trainings

The Centre is a consortium partner in the To acquaint participants with the basic principles of
European Union’s Resource Efficiency circular economy, training sessions were conducted in
Initiative along with the Deutsche April and November 2022. Participants were provided
Gesellschaft für Internationale real-life examples of circular business models from the
manufacturing and plastics industries.
Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, The Energy
and Resource Institute (TERI) and adelphi
The trainings were attended by 33 participants from
Consult GmbH. The initiative, whose
19 organisations.
secondphase was initiated in 2021, aims to
facilitate partnerships between Indian and
European businesses and stakeholders on
resource efficiency (RE) in selected sectors.

As part of this initiative, the Centre organized
a session at CII’s 17th Sustainability Summit in
2022. The EU-REI hosted a session,
Partnerships and Innovation for India’s
Circular Economy. The session explored
partnerships areas to mainstream circular
economy and resource efficiency
innovations between India and the EU. The
panel consisted of organisations which are
contributing to India’s circular economy
transition with a focus area on nature-based
solutions.

We are in process of developing design
guidance for non-food grade HDPE rigid
packaging.

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