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Resource Efficiency - Worth investing in Green Week 2014 Satellite Event

State of play and trends in European resource use

Budapest, 3 June 2014

Kenty Richardson Director for International Relations & Strategic Development

Outline of the presentation

• 1. Megatrends, Global trends in resource use and

challenges

• 2. European trends
• 3. European policy framework & key concepts
• 4. REC’s contribution to the resource efficiency agenda
• 5. Business solutions

Global trends in resource use

SOCIAL 1 Increasing global divergence in population trends 2 Living in an urban world 3 Disease burdens and the risk of new pandemics TECHNOLOGICAL 4 Accelerating technological change: racing into the unknown ECONOMIC 5 Continued economic growth 6 From a unipolar to a multipolar world 7 Intensified global competition for resources ENVIRONMENTAL 8 Decreasing stocks of natural resources 9 Increasingly severe consequences of climate change 10 Increasing environmental pollution load

Megatrends impacting directly resource use as defined by EEA already in 2010

By 2040 we will have 8 billion people striving to: ... communicate... use energy... be healthy... consume and be mobile We need 5 planets :

• r

We become sustainable

Source: A.T. Kearne

This is what we have….

Biotic resources Abiotic resources (minerals, metals, fossil fuels, land, water, air)

Global trends

Nearly one third of marine fish stock have been already overexploited

Global trends

Visualising the challenges

The twin challenge

(Dr. Hans Bruyninckx, EEA executive director)

Source: Kate Raworth

European trends

Europe in a global context

Europe in a global context

Framework to address this challenge: Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe COM(2011) 571 final

Source: EEA

European policy framework & key concepts

Resource efficiency

Resource efficiency means using the Earth's limited resources in a sustainable manner while minimising impacts on the environment. It allows us to create more with less and to deliver greater value with less input. (EC) Europe 2020 Strategy: strategy for a smart, inclusive and sustainable economy. It supports the shift towards sustainable growth via a resource-efficient, low-carbon economy. 7 flagship initiatives, one of them is The resource-efficient Europe flagship initiative. Its key element is the Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe COM(2011) 571 final

• Transforming the economy
• Natural capital and ecosystem services
• Key sectors
• Governance and monitoring

Key elements of the Roadmap

ECONOMY

Waste as a resource SCP Support R&D Getting the prices right

NATURAL CAPITAL

Ecosystem services Biodiversity; Minerals and metals Water; Air; Land and soils Marine resources

SECTORS

Food Buildings Mobility

Governance

Enhancing dialogue Investing in the transition Indicators, monitoring Legislation Global aspects

Concepts - waste as a resource

OECD Identifies Industrial Symbiosis as Critical to Growth Agenda

National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) is “an excellent example of systemic innovation vital for future green growth”

Pollution Control Cleaner Production

Eco- efficiency Lifecycle Management Closed-loop Production Industrial Symbiosis Green products Eco- design New business models New modes

• f provision

Mass application

Product & Service Production Process Organisational Boundary

Incremental Innovation Systemic Innovation

Recent European Policy and action to promote industrial symbiosis:

• Best Practice under the European Waste Framework Directive (2009)
• DG Environment “Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe (2011)”
• DG Enterprise “Sustainable Industry-Going for Growth & Resource

Efficiency (2011)”

• European Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community (2012)
• European Resource Efficiency Platform (2012)

Concepts – industrial symbiosis

Cooperation among companies, optimally at local or regional level.

Source: http://www.envigrowpark.fi

Concepts – GPP and PPI

Purchasing „power” of public authorities to stimulate market

Concepts - bioeconomy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xvXkOMRTs4

Goal: increase the share of biobased materials; while treating controversy about competing uses

• f biomass

Optimal: Circular economy

Source: Ellen Macarthur Foundation

Policy support to Circular economy

The 2050 vision of the 7th Environmental Action Program

• European prosperity and healthy environment will stem from an innovative,

circular economy where nothing is wasted and where natural resources are managed sustainably.

• "there is a need for a framework that gives appropriate signals to

producers and consumers to promote resource efficiency and the circular economy„

• "barriers facing recycling activities in the Union internal market should be

removed and existing prevention, re-use, recycling, recovery and landfill diversion targets reviewed so as to move towards a lifecycle-driven ‘circular’ economy, with a cascading use of resources and residual waste that is close to zero.„ In 2014 the European Commission will set out new proposals: „circular economy package”

REC’s contribution to the resource use and its efficiency

www.rec.org

Regional Environmental Center (REC)

• An international organisation with a mission to assist

different interest groups in addressing environmental issues and promote sustainable development in CEE and beyond

• Legally based on a charter signed by 31 countries

and the European Commission

• Offices in 17 countries, approx. 160 staff members
• 100% project-financed organisation
• over 200 running projects
• annual turnover 10-12 MEUR
• Operations in:
• EU Member States in CEE
• EU enlargement countries, candidate and potential

candidate countries

• Eastern Partnership Countries
• EU27
• beyond the REC Country Office network

REC is partner to the covenant

• n Circular economy

The Covenant on Circular Economy 2022 is promoted by the European Partners for the Environment (EPE) as a powerful open-coordination initiative in a collaborative economy to:

• facilitate the Transition towards a ‘circular economy’
• generate innovation, business opportunities, jobs and skills,
• promote international cooperation while addressing how to address a

circular economy at territorial level. The Covenant itself would be signed second half of 2015 during the EU Luxemburg Presidency and is open to all public authorities, businesses, smart communities and international organisations.

European Topic Center on SCP

ETC/SCP

task RESOURCE EFFICIENCY

STRATEGIES

ETC/SCP

task WASTE PREVENTION Programmes

ETC/SCP

task WASTE IMPLEMENTATION

ZeroWIN

towards zero waste in industrial networks

SPREAD

Sustainable Lifesyles 2050

Enhancing Connectivity Between Research and Policymaking in Sustainable Consumption

PPI

Public Procurement of Innovation PLATFORM

Business solutions

Business solutions (1)

Ecocem, Ireland Produces low carbon cement product through recycling of an industrial by-product called blastfurnace

• slag. This material is

generally shipped from the UK where it would

• therwise be disposed

as a waste product. Regular cement: approx 1.6 tonnes of clay, shale and limestone are removed from the landscape per tonne.

Business solutions (2)

Umicore Precious Metals Refining is the world’s largest recycler of precious metals from electronic scrap, old mobile phones, laptop, or spent catalyst materials and from by-products from other non-ferrous industries The company recovers and sells precious metals (silver, gold, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium), special metals (indium, selenium, tellurium), secondary metals (antimony, tin, bismuth) and base metals (lead, copper, nickel).

Business solutions (3)

Newlife Paints Ltd (UK) reprocesses waste water-based paint back into a premium grade

• emulsion. All products in the paint

range have a minimum 50% recycled content, made up from waste paint diverted from landfill or

• incineration. During the process

waste paint is collected and sorted in Sussex, then blended, treated, tested and filtered to ensure a high quality standard. Finally the paint is packaged and marketed. In the first year of production, Newlife reprocessed approx 100 plus tons

• f waste paint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ayer_embedded&v=nFGTni5RAxk

www.rec.org

Thank you for your attention!

Kenty Richardson Krichardson@rec.org