• Engagement and capacity building
• Regulation and incentives
• Vision and urban management

Qualitative description of individual tools, including scope and scale (e.g. demonstration vs city level), target users.

(To be selected together with indicator number 20)

Qualitative description

• Engagement and capacity building
• Regulation and incentives
• Vision and urban management

Qualitative description of individual tools, including scope and scale (e.g. demonstration vs city level), target users.

(To be selected together with indicator number 20)

Qualitative description

• Engagement and capacity building

Description of knowledge building campaigns. The campaigns would normally be in the form of formalized education events, e.g. classes, courses, education workshops. Describe type of groups reached and type of knowledge building campaign.

(To be selected together with indicator number 5)

1. Identify and categorise knowledge campaigns
2. Identify groups reached

• Engagement and capacity building

Number of campaigns Number of people reached for each campaign

(To be selected together with indicator number 4)

1. Number of campaigns
2. Number of people reached

• Engagement and capacity building

Description of activity type and dialogue methods, which stakeholder groups and when in the process Number of people involved

1. Identify stakeholder activity
2. Describe process and when stakeholders are involved
3. Identify dialogue methods used
4. Number of people involved

• Engagement and capacity building

Description of activity type and dialogue methods, which stakeholder groups and when in the process Number of people involved

1. Identify stakeholder activity
2. Describe process and when stakeholders are involved
3. Identify dialogue methods used
4. Number of people involved

• Engagement and capacity building

Qualitative description of input from stakeholder activities and how it has contributed to improved circularity

1. List inputs from stakeholders
2. Describe how it has been used by those that invited the stakeholder activity
3. Describe how it has contributed to improved circularity

• Engagement and capacity building

Qualitative description of input from stakeholder activities and how it has contributed to improved circularity

1. List inputs from stakeholders
2. Describe how it has been used by those that invited the stakeholder activity
3. Describe how it has contributed to improved circularity

• Engagement and capacity building

Describe type of communication measures, e.g. campaigns, provision of information, events for the public/companies.

1. Number of communication measures towards general public on CE transformation
2. Number of people reached

• Regulation and incentives

Description of requirements in procurements going beyond what is current standard practice

(To be selected together with indicator number 15)

1. Decide which procurements are relevant for analysis (e.g. demo action focussed procurements only or a wider range of procurements)
2. Describe current standard practice in terms of CE requirements
3. For each procurement case, describe additional requirements beyond standard practice
4. In case of several relevant procurements, summarize relevant progress beyond existing levels

• Regulation and incentives

Number of procurements with circularity requirements

Value of procurement with circularity requirements

(To be selected together with indicator number 12)

For each action:

• Type of procurement action
• Value of procurement

For the whole period considered:

• Time period
• Number of procurement contracts
• Sum up the total value of these contracts

• Vision and urban management

Describe to which degree the city is making progress towards its circularity objectives. Identify categories of relevant strategy documents, select documents and relevant selected CE targets.

For each of the identified targets: Describe ambition and judge on scale:

1. no progress,
2. little progress,
3. some progress,
4. ambition nearly reached,
5. ambition reached or beyond

• Vision and urban management

Describe impact of CityLoops tools described in indicator Number 3 on material flows and other relevant parameters

(To be selected together with indicator number 3)

For each tool (estimate):

• Volume of materials impacted per year
• Other relevant parameter per year

• Vision and urban management

Define and select planning instruments/ tools relevant to improve circularity

(To be selected together with indicator number 22)

Qualitative description of each instrument/tool

• Vision and urban management

Quantify impact of all planning instruments/tools tools described in indicator number 21.

(To be selected together with indicator number 21)

For each instrument/tool:

• Number of projects where tool was used Total mass of materials that the tool has impacted on per year
• Recirculated mass of materials that the tool has impacted on per year

• Private investments, jobs and gross value added
• Circular design and business models

Describe the business model, including how it contributes to moving up the waste hierarchy

(To be selected together with indicator number 24)

Number of new CE business models

For each model:

1. a qualitative description of model
2. its circular strategy

• Private investments, jobs and gross value added
• Circular design and business models

For each case of implementation of CE business models in indicator number 23, describe impact in terms of value creation and material flow

(To be selected together with indicator number 23)

For each case of implementation of CE business models:

1. Turnover
2. Materials impacted

• Private investments, jobs and gross value added

For selected cost type(s) (e.g. transport, virgin material costs, waste treatment costs), direct impacts on costs should be estimated.

Quantification of cost savings for the selected cost type using a practical method. The estimate should be accompanied by a qualitative description of the method, which cost items are included and which are excluded, with a justification of the choice.

• Private investments, jobs and gross value added
• Well-being

Assess the impact of demonstration actions or at sector/city level by estimating the increase in CE related jobs

For a selected time period (e.g. year, project period etc. estimate:

• Number of new CE related jobs Number of existing jobs becoming circular

If deemed practical for the evaluation, jobs that have a range of responsibilities, of which some are related to circularity and some are not, can be assigned a “percentage of circularity”. Using this principle, a change in the percentage can be assigned for existing jobs that become more circular.

• Material / energy flow

The total amount of materials directly used by an economy and is defined as the annual quantity of raw materials extracted from the domestic territory, plus all physical imports minus all physical exports. See Eurostat

DMC = DEU + IMP - EXP = Domestic extraction used + Imports - Exports

• Re-use and recycling

This indicator assesses the significance of secondary materials in the economy.

Share of (Recycling + Backfilling)/ domestic material consumption

For biomass: Share of Recycling / domestic material consumption

Example: Food waste is being used for feed to replace grain or soy in the consumption for animal feed.

• Re-use and recycling

Measures how much the city is independent from the rest of the world for several raw materials.

The indicator is expressed in % and is defined as:

1-(net) Import reliance.

Import Reliance (IR) is defined in the EU Critical Raw Materials methodology as IR = Net import / Apparent consumption = (Import - Export) / (Domestic production + Import - Export)

• Re-use and recycling

Estimates mass of materials going to anaerobic digestion.

Sum of organic material going to anaerobic digestion. Data may come from demo managers, waste management companies or the Sector Circularity Assessment Method.

• Re-use and recycling

Estimates mass of materials going to composting at demo, sector and city scale.

Mass of organic material going to composting. Data may come from demo managers, waste management companies or the Sector Circularity Assessment Method.

• Re-use and recycling

Estimates mass of materials going to composting at demo, sector and city scale.

Mass of organic material going to composting. Data may come from demo managers, waste management companies or the Sector Circularity Assessment Method.

• Waste generation / management

Total mass of waste for sector.

Data from waste management companies.

• Waste generation / management

The End-of-Life Processing Rate (EoL PR) measures the efficiency of the end-of-life processing process.

For each material fraction, the End-of-Life processing rate is defined as:

The End-of-Life mass recycled divided by the End-of-Life mass collected.

• Waste generation / management

Mass percentage of waste which is incinerated.

Mass of materials incinerated divided by total amount of waste. Data from waste management companies.

• Waste generation / management

Mass percentage of waste which incinerated for each material fraction as defined by local waste management companies.

Per fraction: Mass of materials incinerated divided by total amount of waste. Data from waste management companies.

• Waste generation / management

Mass percentage of waste which is landfilled.

Mass of materials landfilled divided by total amount of waste. Data from waste management companies.

• Well-being

Define requirements for an open green space, for example using the EEA definition for publicly accessible green space per inhabitant. The EEA map showing Surface area of publicly accessible green space per inhabitant in core cities can be seen here

The total area of green spaces divided by number of inhabitants multiplied by 100 000.

• Well-being

Define requirements for an open green space, for example using the EEA definition for publicly accessible green space per inhabitant. The EEA map showing Surface area of publicly accessible green space per inhabitant in core cities can be seen here

The total area of green spaces divided by number of inhabitants multiplied by 100 000.

• Well-being

Total Number of houses getting regular waste management service. Total Number of inhabitants living in these houses.

Population connected with regular waste management service divided by city population

• Well-being

Total Number of houses getting regular waste management service. Total Number of inhabitants living in these houses.

Population connected with regular waste management service divided by city population

• Environment impacts (global)

The indicator measures annual emissions of the so called ‘Kyoto basket’ of greenhouse gases. The indicator should be calculated at city level and when relevant, for demonstration actions. Focus is on direct emissions. See here for more info on the Kyoto basket

Direct GHG emissions pr. year demo level Direct GHG emissions pr. year city level

• Environment impacts (global)

The indicator measures annual emissions of the so called ‘Kyoto basket’ of greenhouse gases. The indicator should be calculated at city level and when relevant, for demonstration actions. Focus is on direct emissions. See here for more info on the Kyoto basket

Direct GHG emissions pr. year demo level Direct GHG emissions pr. year city level

• Environment impacts (global)

The indicator measures annual emissions of the so called ‘Kyoto basket’ of greenhouse gases per capita at city level

Direct GHG emissions per year at city level divided by the number of inhabitants

• Environment impacts (global)

The indicator measures annual direct emissions of CO2 at city level per GDP at city level.

Direct CO2 emissions divided by GDP at city level. Calculated per year.