Transcript Dr. Guido Sonnemann

State of Play
Session 4: Acting Globally - Practical capacity building for eco-innovation
Dr. Guido Sonnemann,
Programme Officer for Sustainable Innovation,
Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
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The Green Economy Initiative
Green Economy Initiative
•Mobilizing and re-focusing the global economy towards investments in
clean technologies and 'natural' infrastructure such as forests and soils is
the best bet for real growth, combating climate change and triggering an
employment boom in the 21st century.
• In October 2008, UNEP launched the 2 year Green Economy Initiative (GEI)
•Green Economy report: an overview, analysis and synthesis of how public policy can
help markets accelerate the transition towards a green economy
•Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: a partnership project focusing on
valuation issues; and
•Green Jobs report, looks at employment trends
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Risk
The Business Case for greening…
New Markets:
- Development of new products
- First mover advantage
- Innovation in addressing
environmental concerns
New
Markets
Investment
Potential
Cost / liability
Reduction
Licence to
Operate
Reward
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Building upon DTIE Initiatives
UNEP
Division of Technology,
Industry and Economics
(DTIE)
International
Environmental
Technology
Centre
Chemicals
Economics
and Trade
Sustainable
Consumption
and Production
Energy
OzonAction
Business and
Industry
Finance
Initiative
UNEP UNIDO JOINT
CREP Programme
Integrated
Resources
Management
Goods and
Services
Technology
transfer
Finance
Unit
Policy
Urban and
Transport
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Operationalising the Approach
and Addressing the Barriers
• 4 Key components to UNEP approach
•Policy
•Technology
•Finance
•Communication: information, guidance, networks, training, …
• Applies to DTIE activities of ETB, Energy and SCP branches
• In particular relevant for Finance Initiative, Resource Panel,
Life Cycle Initiative, RECP programme (with UNIDO) and
various Energy related projects
• All inter-related and necessary
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Policy
Instruments
• SCP indicators for measuring current status and
progress with regard resource management in a life
cycle perspective
• Indicators for measuring the impacts of policies
applied to various industrial sectors;
• Sustainable Procurement (public and private);
• Public and Private Financing;
• Technology Verification and Performance Targets;
• Knowledge Services (directories, handbooks,
guidelines…) and other information campaigns;
• Trade (barriers, incentives);
• Economic instruments (taxes, subsidies);
• Voluntary agreements (certification systems).
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Finance
An investor initiative in partnership with
UNEP FI and the UN Global Compact
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Technology Transfer
Framework
• Identify technologies
• Assess markets for technologies,
including barriers for transfer and
finance conditions
• Create platform for action
– Study various sectors
• Implement identified actions for each
sector
– Decide which actions at with level
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Communication
Elements
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Overall goals to
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Focus on businesses in developing countries
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In close co-operation with leading experts from
around the world and centres of excellence in
developing countries, like the National Cleaner
Production Centres (NCPCs)
– Assess cutting-edge knowledge
– Collect best practice examples
– Set up global networks
– Raise awareness
– Provide guidance
– Develop training material
– Build capabilities
– Demonstrate practical applications
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UNEP Finance Initiative
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18 year-old UNEP partnership with the
financial industry, mostly private sector
170 financial institutions: banks, insurers,
asset managers
From all the world regions: Europe 48%,
Asia 29%, North America 13%, Africa 6%
Mission: identify, promote, and realize
the adoption of best environmental and
sustainability practice at all levels of
financial institution operations.
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Applying the Principles for
Responsible Investment: Cleantech
• The Principles are designed to be applicable to all asset
classes.
• Cleantech sector a particularly exciting sector for those
investors ‘ahead of the curve’ on environmental considerations.
• Cleantech highlighted by UNEP’s ‘new green deal’ as one of
the ‘priority sectors’ for investment.
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UNEP’s Energy Branch
 Not being a financial institution, UNEP works in noncompetitive ways with banking community leaders
 Mission: To help overcome market barriers and increase
investment flows to renewable energy and energy efficiency
technologies
 Turning the finance sector into an ally promoting clean
energy:
• Supporting decision making, both amongst governments and
financiers, helping to get policies enacted, financial strategies
formed and new financial instruments launched
• Financial support mechanisms used to reduce the front-end
barriers that hinder the development of solar market
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Lessons learned
• Technologies available: market uptake slow
• Markets scale up quickly once banks start to lend
• Banks need help to get started
• Assessing technologies
• Marketing new loans
• Kick-starting demand
• Lending gives feedback signal that technology is
mature
• Policy makers take a technology more seriously once banks lend
• Increasingly requested to replicate type of project
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Photovoltaic Loan Facility in India (Energy globe awarded in 2007)
MEDREP - Mediterranean Renewable Energy Programme
BALREP – The Balkan Renewable Energy Programme (for SWH)
GEF Solar Water Heating (SWH) Global Initiative
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Assessing cuttingedge knowledge
De-coupling
and Resource-efficiency
Consumption and Production-induced material flows
Non-renewable resources
Renewable resources
Food
Selected
focusareas
(example)
Non- Food
Biofuels
(vs. fossil
fuels )
Crosscutting
issues
Minerals
and Metals
Fossil
Fuels
Financially
supported
among
others by
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Global life cycle
innovation network
Mission:
To bring
sciencebased
life cycle
approaches
into
practice
worldwide
Financially
supported
among others
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A Practical Approach for
Developing Economies
– Redesign and Benchmarking methodologies
– Combining Life Cycle approaches, the
Cleaner Production (CP) and product
innovation interventions
– Guidance to companies or those who work
with them to pursue internal D4S efforts (via
the supply chain or single operation context)
– Focus on incremental improvements rather
than deep innovation
– Available in English, Spanish, Vietnamese
– Applied at national level in Vietnam, further to
testing in Morocco and Costa Rica
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Experiences from
demonstration projects
• A promising combination between “traditional” CP
(developed by UNIDO/UNEP), which in Vietnam is
more focused on process, with D4S approach
(developed by UNEP and partners), which focuses
on sustainable products
• Coaching and experience sharing are
critical at key stages of the project
such product selection
• Marketing component needed
• Bottom-up approach and stepby-step methodology for SMEs
• Build capacity in NCPC to evaluate product market;
supply chain points of intervention, support local
and international experts
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EC funded Project on
Sustainable Innovation
Preparation of Industrial Sector Studies:
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Recycling – from E-Waste to Resources
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Critical metals for future sustainable technologies and their
recycling potential
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Technology Transfer for reducing the carbon footprint –
example of cleaner technologies for food processing
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Review of Bioenergy Life-Cycles- Results of Sensitivity
Analysis for Biofuel GHG Emissions
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Study on global flow of metals
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Decoupling economic growth from resource use and
environmental impact
Studies were identified by UNEP, EC, Sustainable
Innovation Group and/ or Resource Panel members
to support the work of the International Panel for
Sustainable Resource Management.
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Recycling – from E-waste
to Resources
• Setting the scene for capacity building and technology
transfer by bringing eco-innovative responses to the needs
in developing countries in the area of Resource Efficiency
• Focus on e-waste recycling technologies, including a range
of metals, (ferrous and non-ferrous metals) and other
materials
• Analysis of barriers for uptake of relevant technologies for
e-waste recycling sector in selected developing countries
• Application of the Technology Transfer Framework
in order to foster the transfer of innovative technologies
in the e-waste recycling sector;
• Identification of centres of excellence in emerging
economies relevant for e-waste recycling technologies
• Under finalisation to become UNEP/ UNU joint publication
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Thank You!
For more information about UNEP’s work
on Sustainable Innovation:
Guido Sonnemann
Programme Officer for Innovation and Life Cycle Management
Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch
Division of Technology, Industry & Economics
United Nations Environment Programme
15 rue Milan
75441 Paris Cedex 09, France
Tel: +33 1 4437 1450 Fax: +33 1 4437 1474
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.unep.fr/scp
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