2025 International Workshop Series on E-waste Statistics Project: Enhancing countries’ capacities for measuring progress on the transition towards a circular economy

The 2025 International Workshop Series on E-waste Statistics is being held as part of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) project Enhancing countries’ capacities for measuring progress on the transition towards a circular economy. The project (running between 2024 and 2026), takes a multi-level approach to building global capacity around data and statistics on the circular economy, with a focus on:

1. Developing and strengthening statistical methodologies at the global level;
2. Supporting regional capacity building and dialogue between data users and producers; and
3. Enhancing, through tailored national activities, the technical capabilities of country-level institutions to regularly publish datasets on the circular economy and waste. These activities are intended to support improved global monitoring of progress against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), circular economy indicators more generally, and evidence-based policymaking at the national level.