Transcript SA Green Economy Summit UNEP SCP Presentatio

“Johannesburg to Rio”:
UNEP activities and international
perspectives on RE-SCP
Cornis van der Lugt
Coordinator: Resource Efficiency
UNEP Division of technology, Industry and Economics
Presentation Outline
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Introduction – the problem
Response
Opportunities for collaboration
Target industries and countries
Network support
Introduction - Resource Inefficiency
• Global financial & economic crisis:
over 3.4 trillion US dollars in losses
• annual losses of Natural Capital due to
deforestation and forest degradation:
up to 4.5 trillion US dollars
(The Economics of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services /
TEEB research reports)
Introduction - Resource Inefficiency
• > half world population lives in towns and cities...
by 2030 likely to be almost 5 billion, with urban
growth concentrated in Africa and Asia
• In 2006, people consumed $30.5 trillion worth of
goods and services, up 28% from 10 years
earlier... accompanied by dramatic increase in
resource extraction
• increasingly metal stocks are ‘above ground’ in
structures, products... metals recycling rates vary
25% - 75% globally (iron and steel, copper, aluminum, lead, tin)
Resource Efficiency (RE-SCP) in context:
Ecosystems
NATURAL CAPITAL
Human well-being,
development
HUMAN CAPITAL
Human systems and their governance
Ecosystem services
Production and
Consumption –
Resource Efficiency
(RE)
Response: UNEP RE-SCP
Subprogramme activity areas
• Assess: Scientific Assessments
• Take Action: Policies and Tools
• Seize Opportunities: investment
opportunities, in new technologies, markets
• Stimulate Demand: User choice – individual
and institutional consumption
Opportunities for collaboration
Scientific Assessments:
• UNEP International Panel for Sustainable
Resource Management (investigate main socioeconomic drivers, production & consumption
clusters)
• UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative (impacts
along product life cycle, incl social LCA)
Opportunities for collaboration
Policies and Tools:
• Green Economy Initiative: Macro-economic
analysis, research, global and national
support
• Regional &National – Marrakech Process
on SCP, following JhB 2002 and leading to
Rio 2012
• Cities: urban development (buildings &
infrastructure, transport, waste etc)
Life cycle-based policies and tools
Waste
Management:
Consumption
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Production
Natural
resources
Resource
Extraction
2
products
MCW
- Collection
- Recovery
- Recycling
- Incineration
- Landfilling
Basic materials
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Industrial wastes
3
Recovery, recycling
Mining
overburden
etc.
1 Raw material taxes
2 Integrated Product Policy (IPP)
3 Quotas, technical standards
4 Technical standards, landfill & pollution taxes
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Waste
landfilled,
emissions
Integrate with Existing
Nat. Strategies, Coordinate, Implement
Integrated Product
Policy (IPP)
National
Development /
Growth Plan
National
Biodiversity
Strategy and Action
Plan (NBSAP)
National
Environnemental
Action Plan (NEAP)
National
Sustainable
Development
Strategy
(NSDS)
National
SCP
Programme
Health Policy
National Action
Plan to Combat
Desertification
(NAP)
Cleaner Production
Strategy
Agenda /
Capacity 21
Population
Policy
Energy Policy
Water & Forest
Policy
Climate
Change
Strategy
Poverty
Reduction
Strategy Paper
(PRSP)
Education
Policy
Transport
Policy
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Opportunities for collaboration
Seize investment opportunities:
• SME network – National Cleaner
Production Centres (UNEP/UNIDO)
• Global value chain partnerships:
Sustainable Buildings & Climate Initiative
UNEP Finance Initiative (banks & insurance)
Tourism Sustainability Council (incl GSTC)
Planned: metals stewardship, agrifood
Opportunities for collaboration
Stimulate Demand:
• Communication tools – standards, labels,
sustainability reporting (incl ISO, GRI, ecolabelling)
• Sustainable Lifestyles – media, green /
advertising, youth education (youthXchange)
• Public sector – sustainable procurement,
green facilities management (eg transport,
office waste, water & electricity use)
• Increase number of export products from target countries: Brazil,
China, India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Mexico, South Africa (textiles)
awarded with ecolabel through capacity building & technical
assistance
• Develop roadmap towards greater cooperation and mutual
recognition of ecolabelling schemes
Challenges:
• Information: access to coherent, credible and clear information about
ecolabelling programs, requirements and markets
• Capacity building: comprehensive, coordinated and needs-based support to
develop sustainable enterprises
• Policy framework: integration in supportive policy framework
UNEP 4-year project co-funded by the EuropeAid /European Commission and German Government)
Targeting 3 resource intensive value chains
Agriculture & Food: Building &
Construction:
Metals & Auto
Manufacturing:
Assess
Eg assessment of scarce
resources & food chain
impacts
Eg assessment of
materials sourcing,
industry growth
Eg metal flows / use
along global value chains
Take action
Eg efficient water and
land use management
Eg tools for Efficient and
Green / mEGa cities
Eg regulations &
incentives to promote 3R
Invest
Eg investment in RE
friendly commodities,
trade
Eg property investment
criteria, SBCI partnership
Eg investment in energy
efficient manufacturing
Stimulate demand
Eg food labels &
standards, reporting
Eg sustainable
procurement & UN
facilities
Eg consumers &
sustainable mobility
Target countries for RE-SCP
improvements…
Consider eg GDP, population size, level of industrial output,
agricultural output, energy use, GHG emissions, water use /
scarcity, environmental performance rating (cf Yale country
index)
UNEP/UNIDO network of National
Cleaner Production Centres (NCPCs)
Services incl:
• Technical assistance, plant assessments
• Training
• Information dissemination, awareness creation
• CP technology & investment promotion
Cleaner Production
Eco-efficiency (WBCSD)
Environmentally Sound Technologies
(ESTs)
Resource Efficient and Cleaner
Production (RECP)
THANK YOU
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UNEP DTIE and RE Subprogramme