{"id":103600,"date":"2023-01-26T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T16:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euro-funding.com\/?p=103600"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:31:22","slug":"economy-circular-importance-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euro-funding.wp2.rwdesarrollos2.es\/en\/blog\/economy-circular-importance-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Circular Economy and its importance in the energy future"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Circular Economy and its
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The Circular Economy and its importance in the energy future<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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What will the earth be like in 2048?\u00a0 Lately we have heard many times this question about what our planet will be like in the future. But are we aware of the environmental problems we are generating and the consequences that this model may bring?<\/strong> The scientific community warns us that, if we continue with the same patterns of consumption and growth as up to now, there is a time limit, in the year 2050<\/strong>, before society collapses and destabilization occurs on a planetary level. Are we still in time to change the destiny of our planet?<\/p>

\u00a0The current linear economic model<\/strong>, based on the extraction of raw materials to produce goods that we use, consume and discard, is clearly unsustainable over time<\/strong>. The natural resources critical to guarantee our life and evolution are running out or are on the verge of running out. The scientific community, and especially the geologists’ guild, postulate the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch, which would replace the current epoch, Holocene, due to the global impact that human activities are having on terrestrial ecosystems. In this sense, the rocks called plastiglomerates, formed by an amalgam of plastics, sand, rocks and human waste, will constitute in the future one of the most solid traces of the passage of human beings on the planet<\/strong>.<\/p>

Moreover, as if this were not enough, our economy, based on the consumption of fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases, is contributing, as is already known, to the warming of the first atmospheric layer. Scientific evidence indicates that we have already warmed the planet by one degree and that if we continue with this pattern we will reach 2\u00baC by 2050<\/strong>. According to the United Nations climate change, we currently emit around 51 billion CO2 annually, of which approximately 30% comes from how we make things, process and manufacture them, 27% comes from the way we generate energy and 16% from the way we use it. Based on these data, logic tells us that, if we bet on the design of actions aimed at our way of producing, generating energy or moving, we would be able to minimize a very important part of these emissions, we are talking about up to 75%. However, is there time to achieve this?<\/strong><\/p>

The estimate made by the scientific community is that, in the most optimistic scenario, we currently have 29 years to define, develop and implement an energy, industrial and social transition that guarantees the habitability of our planet.<\/strong> In this context, we have the priority mission of collaborating in the greatest integral transformation that we have had to face in the history of humanity.\u00a0The countdown is on.<\/p>

Aspects as important as the reduction in consumption, the promotion of recovery and recycling and the recovery of existing resources in waste are a priority within the environmental framework programs at European level<\/strong>. In addition, it is essential that we all work together to address this worrying situation: the scientific community<\/strong>, for its part, betting on Ecodesign, where the analysis of the materials-resources to be used, their destination and their impact on the environment at the end of their useful life is the cornerstone of production systems and service provision; from the administratio<\/strong>n, outlining public policies and initiatives that promote sustainability; as citizens<\/strong>, being prescribers of the best solutions towards sustainability; and, from the business environment, proposing business models from the permanent perspective of the Circular Economy.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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What is the definition of Circular Economy?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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It is an economic concept closely linked to sustainability, which aims to maintain the value of products, materials and resources in the economy for as long as possible, thus minimizing waste generation. The idea arises from imitating nature, where everything has value and everything is used, so that waste becomes a new resource, achieving a balance between growth and sustainability. It pursues the principle of closing the life cycle of products, services, waste, materials, water and energy, optimizing the consumption of raw materials, the use of waste, recycling them or giving them a new life to turn them into new products.\u00a0Following this concept, design is considered the most important stage of the Circular Economy philosophy, since it is at this stage that the good or bad choices of a product are made: the selection of recyclable materials, the ease of disassembly\/repair, etc. Ecodesign reduces the environmental impact of a product to very significant figures.<\/p>

According to the Ellen McArthur Foundation, the Circular Economy is governed by a series of principles of action among which are:<\/p>