Circular economy strategies at different levels of government are essential to ensure a transition towards circularity. Measuring progress and impacts towards a circular economy is, hence, an important part of these public policies. Currently, there is no agreed measure of progress on how circular an economy is for countries to compare peer to peer progress and there is no harmonized framework to monitor progress towards a circular economy and for more circular solid waste management. In this context, for concerted regional progress on circular economy enabling conditions, this Accelerator Session aims to address data and capacity gaps to better measure regional progress and ensure evidence-based policymaking for a circular economy. The adoption of a comparable and replicable set of indicators to complement national strategies is the main topic that will be covered in this accelerator session. 

15th May - 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Venue: STAYBRIDGE SUITES, Rua Bandeira Paulista, 555, São Paulo - SP

8:50h - Reception

9:00h - Introduction of the Session 

Moderator: Sara Hallgren

Introductory Session

UNOSD, UN DESA - Sara Castro-Hallgren, Sustainable Development Officer 

UN-ECLAC – Luiz Fernando Krieger Merico, Senior Officer

IADB – Silvia Ortiz Stradtmann, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist

Opening Remarks

UNOSD – UN-DESA - Mr. Chun Kyoo Park, Head 

K-eco - Mr. Jae Woong Jeong, Executive Director, HQ of Resource Recirculation Management

9:50h - Presentations

Moderator: IADB

The case of Colombia on tracking circular economy statistical information, Diego Cobaleda, Representative of the National Statistical Department (DANE)

The case of Peru on statistical information and circular economy, César Manuel Quispe Luján, Vice-minister of MYPE and Industry – Peru 

Measuring Circularity in Germany, Öko-Institut E.V. Institut for Applied Ecology 

Digital Innovations for measuring resource circularity 

Moderator: ECLAC

Korea’s Industrial Waste Collection, Transport, and Disposal Tracking System (Allbaro System – IT based total waste data and management tracking system) 

Mr. Kwang-Nyung Lee, Assistant Manager of Allbaro Operation Division, Department of Industrial Waste, K-eco 

Closing dialogue on regional indicators for measuring progress on a circular economy

Circular Economy Indicators for LAC: building indicators for national strategies 

Luiz Fernando Krieger Merico/Estefani Rondon– – SDHSD/ECLAC 

11:50h - Closing remarks, conclusions 

12:00h - Lunch