The impact of COVID-19 on Piedmont Circular Economy policy roadmap

The outbreak of COVID-19 in the Italian and international scenario has produced diversified responses to an unknown and unexpected event, rooted in the governance characteristics of each Country. Governments need to overcome established legislative practices and procedures, proposing new legislative and financial frameworks to address endemic or unexpected crises while pursuing sustainable development goals (Capano, 2020). The following contribution explores the emerging results from the new activities implemented by the RETRACE project to investigate how the pandemic has influenced the processes of Circular Economy (CE) that it had stimulated in four different regions considered: Piedmont (Italy), New Aquitaine (France), Biscay (Spain), North-East (Romania). Therefore, this paper delves into the situation in the Piedmont Region.