As part of the EU’s drive to become the first climate-neutral region globally by 2050, it has championed a number of initiatives to encourage more sustainable business practices that contribute to this goal. Most recently in July the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) came into force to galvanise businesses in select sectors to actively support this aim. Part of the EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP), the ESPR seeks to boost circularity and the practices that contribute to sustainability by creating a framework that helps make “sustainable products the new norm in the EU, by making them last longer,…
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Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR): The EU mandate set to shake up sustainability in the tech sector