The Government of Catalonia has approved this January the Roadmap for the Circular Economy in Catalonia (FRECC) 2030, which aims to accelerate the country’s transition towards a more circular and fair economy that maximizes the value of resources and acts as a lever for this transformation within a framework of collaborations among key actors. To achieve this, it defines the mission, vision, strategic objectives, and operational objectives towards a more circular Catalonia by 2030. These objectives include decoupling economic development from resource consumption and emissions generation; accelerating social, cultural, and labor transformation towards circularity; ensuring an effective transition towards a circular and digitized industrial and business fabric; and facilitating the creation of a favorable framework for the circular economy. inèdit has been the drafting team, together with the Waste Agency of Catalonia (ARC) and various directorates general of the Department of Climate Action, Food, and Rural Agenda (DACC).

In a global context where some material resources will become increasingly scarce and strategic to maintain economic activity in many sectors, “it is advisable for countries and governments to develop a circularity strategy,” says Jordi Oliver, executive director of inèdit. Once the roadmap, priorities, and actions are defined, the next step, according to Oliver, “belongs to private agents, who will have to build their strategies and align themselves with the country’s objectives, so business associations and clusters will play a fundamental role as companions of this transformation and as facilitators of cooperation among agents”.

The roadmap will be developed through two action plans, one for 2024-2026 and another for 2027-2029. For now, the Government has approved the first of the plans, which will materialize in fifteen lines of action and eighty actions that will contribute to achieving the strategic and operational objectives defined in the document.