A newly launched interdisciplinary doctoral project titled "EU-Taxonomy and Sound Management of Chemicals - Classification, Transparency, and Financing as Levers Towards a Non-Toxic Environment" aims to incentivise the chemical industry more strongly to align its activities closely with the Taxonomy's environmental objectives – specifically 'Pollution Prevention & Control (PPC)’ and 'Transition to a Circular Economy (CE)'. This initiative seeks to actively engage diverse actors from industry, research, NGOs, EU Directorates and working groups to collaboratively develop and evaluate suitable design options for the EU Taxonomy and the Technical Screening Criteria (TSC). The project, launched in October 2024, runs until October 2027. Next steps are:
- Definition of a target state of the EU Taxonomy embedded in the encompassing normative framework – by Q2 2025
- Analysis of EU Taxonomy and TSC for ‘PPC’ and ‘CE’ in status quo – by Q1 2026
- Joint development and user-testing of suitable design options for EU taxonomy and TSC - by Q4 2026
- Development of action plans for the relevant actors - by Q2 2027