Transcript Eco-Innovation Action Plan

Brussels
03/03/2010
From ETAP to an
Eco-Innovation Action Plan
Igor Jelinski
DG ENV, E.4 „LIFE-Environment and Eco-innovation”
EU-wide Action 2004 - 2009
• ETAP: Promote eco-innovation and the take-up of
Environmental Technologies:
– R&D: up to €10 billion in FP7 for environmental
technologies
– 30 technology platforms (fuel cells, H2)
– Tailor-made financial instruments for eco-innovation
– Performance targets → expansion of eco-design
– Environmental Technology Verification
– Review of state-aid → special attention for eco-innovation
– Green Public Procurement → voluntary 50% target
– Awareness-raising → ETAP Forum (over 1000 participants)
– Innovation in promising areas → Lead Markets
ETAP has been succesful
• Conditions have improved thanks to
– Putting environmental technologies/ ecoinnovation on the agenda
– Mobilizing Member States actions (ETAP
national roadmaps)
– Focusing research efforts
– Improving market conditions through:
• Coordinating policies (Lead Market Initiative)
• Innovative financial instruments
• Partnerships with the private sector
But obstacles remain
• Persisting issues
– Limited information on overall EU and specific
Member State performance
– Indirect impact of ETAP
– Better focus of actions and coordination of efforts
– Diversity of instruments (both at EU and Member
State level)
– Risk of different impact on Member States (long run)
– Financial and administrative barriers
– Limited impact on the global dimension
Changing circumstances
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Europe 2020 strategy
Research and Innovation Plan
New economic landscape
New EU environmental objectives:
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Climate change mitigation and adaptation
Energy and resource efficiency
Sustainable consumption and production
Beyond GDP
• Eco-innovation and green industries no longer a
niche, but a real driver for growth and jobs
From ETAP to an
Eco-innovatioon Action Plan
• Objectives still relevant:
– Exploit eco-innovation for competitiveness and sustainable
development
– Sustain EU competitive advantage in the green tech sector
– Mobilize stakeholders
– Develop targeted actions
• Priority areas still relevant:
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From research to market
Improving market conditions
Acting globally
Governance of eco-innovation
From ETAP to an
Eco-innovatioon Action Plan
• But new focus…
– Expand focus from green technologies to all aspects
of eco-innovation
– Bringing existing ETAP tools to “the next level”
– Leverage private funding through new financial
instruments
– Increase SME focus by better linking with existing
initiatives
– Reinforce the global dimension
– Better cooperation and coordination with global efforts
Eco-Innovation Action Plan
• From research to markets
– Increased involvement
– Better coordination of research efforts around
eco-innovation
– Scaling up technology transfer
– Continued work on standards
Eco-Innovation Action Plan
• Improving market conditions
– Mobilize greater financial resources
– Scaling up GPP and exchange of best-practice
– Skills for the green economy
– Expanding to eco-innovation
– Provide targeted services to SMEs
Eco-Innovation Action Plan
• Acting globally
– Focus on bilateral relations
– Capacity-building
– Reinforced cooperation with international
organizations
– Linking with the global green economy drive
Eco-Innovation Action Plan
• Governance of eco-innovation
– Strengthened role of the ETAP HLWG
– Regularly updated ETAP national roadmaps
– Tracking of EU and Member State performance
– Highlighting promising policy approaches
From ETAP to an
Eco-innovatioon Action Plan
• Time line…
– Feb 11th, 2010 – Stakeholder meeting
– March 2010 – Launch of the Impact Assessment (3
months)
– March 2010: EU 2020 proposal
– April 2010: Formal internet consultation on the EcoInnovation Action Plan
– Mid 2010: EU 2020 endorsed by the Member States
– Mid 2010: New Research and Innovation Act
– November 2010: Proposal for an Eco-innovation Action
Plan
Stakeholder meeting - Results
• Better immerse in new political reality
• Endorsement of objectives and action areas
• Clear definitions (eco-innovation, green growth,
etc)
• Priority setting
• EU value added of an Eco-innovation AP
• Clustering of actions
• Targets/ indicators/ benchmarks to measure
performance
Questions
• ETAP successes and failures?
• Remaining obstacles to eco-innovation uptake
(within the EU and globally).
• Relevance of the ETAP priority areas. Missing or
irrelevant priorities/ measures?
• Deepening the sectoral focus or demand?
• What governance for eco-innovation in the EU?
• Mainstreaming eco-innovation into EU policymaking
Thank you
http://ec.europa.eu/environment