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Join the CEC #CircularCities movement

and team with your city to launch a circular economy strategy.

 

This fall, the Circular Economy Club (CEC) celebrated its inaugural “Circular Cities Week” global event (Oct. 28-Nov. 3, 2019). The goal: to push, with a united voice, for the design and implementation of circular economy strategies in cities worldwide. This effort will coincide with the United Nations World Cities Day on Oct. 31.

What is the #CircularCities Week

“Circular Cities Week” is an annual, decentralized global event.  Over 80 CEC Chapters signed up to organize workshops to identify opportunities and next steps to encourage implementation of the circular economy in their cities. CEC Chapters have already organized the workshop so far. The findings can be found in the report below. This process included bringing in stakeholders from city governments, private and nonprofit sectors, and academia—and providing a multi-stakeholder call to action.

81 CITIES       13 COUNTRIES      1,300 PARTICIPANTS      1 MISSION

 

You can now HOST A WEBINAR about the #CircularCities Week Report 2020.

 

Why the #CircularCities Week

The CEC envisions a world in which every city in every country functions and prospers through circularity, ending the age of waste. An ambitious goal such as this requires clarity and clearly defined deadlines. “Circular Cities Week” provides this critical framework.
The condensed timeframe of “Circular Cities Week” encourages a sense of urgency and purpose designed to help stakeholders identify opportunities, challenges and next steps for supporting the development of circularity at the city government level. The objectives of the week are twofold:
• Convince and support city governments to publish a local circular economy strategy plan with clear goals for their city
• Create an open-source report of challenges, opportunities and next steps for all the participating cities

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“The CEC ‘Circular Cities Week’ empowers circularity supporters with tools to lead circularity efforts in their region through the development of circular strategies at the local government level. It is only by setting clear objectives that we will be able to track progress and create a world with no waste.”

Anna Tari

Founder and Chair of the Board

Circular Economy Club (CEC)

Want to bring the #CircularCities Week to your city?

The list below includes CEC city chapters that are hosting events for “Circular Cities Week.” If your city is not yet on the list and you cannot find a CEC Organizer in your city, consider applying to Become a CEC City Organizer. As a CEC City Organizer, you will be able to create the event in your city and will be asked to follow the CEC Toolkit with the step-by-step on how to organize the session.

 

As the CEC Organizer for Kuala Lumpur & Petaling Jaya, Circular Cities Week 2019 had participation from government & agencies, private sector, not for profits, members of academia and the civil society acting on the urgency to strengthen multi-stakeholders call in designing the Circular City Canvas. We are now looking forward to Malaysia’s Circular Roadmap which will be launched by the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment & Climate Change at the end of this year.

 

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The 1st Circular Cities Week brought engagement opportunities among government, local authorities, private sector, NGOs, academia, experts and the civil society. This multi sector approach provided an opportunity for identifying, analyzing, prioritizing and agreeing on major challenges and opportunities for our city to become circular.

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BROWSE THE CEC CIRCULAR CITIES WEEK PHOTOS

See all photos on the CEC Facebook photo gallery.

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OVER 80 CITIES SIGNED UP TO HOST THE CEC #CircularCities Week

Organize your "Circular City" session by becoming a CEC Organizer.

 

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