Inaugural lecture Chris Backes: Law for a Circular Economy
Professor Chris Backes (Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 School of Law, Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law) held his inaugural lecture at the 12th of April 2017. He held the lecture on accepting the Chair of Environmental and Planning Law.
The lecture is now available online: Law for a Circular Economy (pdf)
Today humanity uses, on average, the equivalent of 1.6 earths to provide the resources we use and to absorb our waste. A pathway to sustainable resource use is the circular economy. This concept aims at optimising the value of the resources used and to minimise the amount of resources used. In the lecture Chris Backes addresses the question of what kind of law we need to realize a circular economy. He argues that many legal frameworks and rules on the national and the European level will have to be reconsidered, amended and some completely newly framed to foster a truly circular economy.