The LIFE GREEN ADAPT project uses blue-green infrastructures to enhance landfill resilience to climate impacts and create circular economy models through innovative technologies that support adaptation and mitigation.
- bioeconomy | business model | circular economy | clean technology | environmental impact | innovation | waste management | waste recycling
- Monday 2 June 2025, 11:08 (CEST)
- Online only
- Country
- Spain
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- Monday 2 June 2025, 11:08 (CEST)
- Where
- Online only
- Languages
- English
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Description
The EU-funded LIFE GREEN ADAPT project (GA no. LIFE20 CCA/ES/001795) aims to increase the resilience of EU waste infrastructures, particularly in the form of landfills that traditionally contribute to severe pollution via landfill leachate and runoff. In addition to waste infrastructure resilience enhancements, LIFE GREEN ADAPT aims to promote the value of blue-green infrastructures (BGI) in providing viable solutions for climate change adaptation, towards a clean, competitive and circular economy.
In accordance with these aims, LIFE GREEN ADAPT plans to hold a webinar to showcase and discuss the design and implementation of innovative technologies into an existing waste management site to combat ongoing threats of water pollution and carbon emissions associated with conventional landfills in Europe and beyond, as well as the results pertaining to the success of the innovative technologies in use thus far in the lifespan of the project.
This webinar format will evaluate the level of progress the project has made in attaining its initial goals for remediation of heavy metal and chemical pollutants in landfill leachate, reducing and sequestering carbon emissions from waste management practices, and minimising risks of fires, landslides, and explosions in light of extreme climate change-induced drought and rainfall.
The ambition of this webinar is to further exploit the project’s leverage in transferring key knowledge to broader audiences, promote new alliances, and raise awareness about the potential of adoption of the innovations developed in it, and to put the circularity associated with climate adaptation and mitigation measurements at the centre of our economic transition.
Ultimately, next steps will also be highlighted in terms of how the project is envisioned to draw to a close at the end of 2025 and how GREEN ADAPT’s technological competitiveness could become amplified as the project concludes and the technologies become scaled and adopted across other contexts. Furthermore, the webinar will explore what role the technologies may be able to play through integration with measures designed to mitigate and adapt to climate change in line with EU policies and regulatory frameworks such as the European Circular Economy Action Plan and the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change.
