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CircuLaw

Unlocking regulatory innovation for the circular economy transition

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Team

Romy Snijders

Romy Snijders

Theo Campbell

Theo Campbell

Joost Beunderman

Joost Beunderman

Melissa Watkins

Melissa Watkins

Rob de Jong

Rob de Jong

Gurden Batra

Gurden Batra

Anahat Kaur

Anahat Kaur

Units

Net Zero Cities

Net Zero Cities

Civic Tech

Civic Tech

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City of Amsterdam

AMS Institute

Built by Nature

Circulaire Bouweconomie

Ministerie van Financiën

Provincie Flevoland

Provincie Noord-Holland

Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland

TU Delft

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

EIT Climate-KIC

Wageningen Universiteit

In light of the escalating breakdown in our climate and the natural world, we need to transition to a circular economy, amongst other fundamental changes. Accelerating this transition requires a systemic shift in how we produce, build and consume, using multiple levers of change. Although law and regulation are often viewed as a barrier to change, they also offer opportunities that can be leveraged to speed up or scale the circular transition. The regulatory system is an often underappreciated societal scale device that can facilitate the shifting of markets and behaviours.

In close collaboration with the City of Amsterdam and a growing coalition of knowledge and funding partners, and building on previous work on regulatory innovation, Dark Matter Labs is working on accelerating the transition to a circular economy by enabling and stimulating more and better use of existing laws and regulations, as well as better understanding regulatory gaps, voids and barriers. This is done through research, exploration and creating of multiple services, including communities of practice and the creation of a legal knowledge platform, circulaw.nl. Policymakers can navigate opportunities and possibilities in existing laws and regulations for different themes, like timber construction and circular wind turbines. The insights are created through systemic legal analysis based on a methodology developed by the CircuLaw team and shared through a comprehensive overview of instruments on the online platform. We help policymakers select and apply those instruments. And we provide insights into the distribution of authority across the multiple levels of government, to enhance collaboration and enable sense-making of where regulatory change will be needed to achieve ambitious transition goals.

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