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International Workshop for Global Sustainability presented by the Partnership for Global Sustainability The Global Triangle Region of North Carolina Panel session on the Sustainability approach, 23 October 2018 Space for a Sustainable
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Introduction
- Sustainable Development which can be defined as the
challenge aiming at conciliating ecology and social and economic development, is one of the most urgent issues facing society at large. What is at stake is the long-term survival of: * all living
- rganisms
(animals, vegetables and human species) and also *
- ur social and economic systems.
- The current environmental situation worldwide is the
result of different factors: natural resources depletion climate change and to a certain extent: the human behaviour impact.
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Introduction
- As a major actor in society, any company, any organisation
has an important role to play in order to preserve resources of all kinds, and demonstrates its commitment towards Sustainable Development (translated into Corporate Social Responsibility for an organisation or a company), through its strategy and its day-to-day functioning. It has not to be a burden for staff and managers but an aim to improve the situation at both local and global levels.
- This is a matter of responsibility towards the citizens and
towards the planet we live on.
- Space players in general and space agencies in particular are
key to show the pathway to be taken, influence the general public and raise their awareness, inspire them to change mindsets through their core-business activities.
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Introduction
Risks not to commit and act towards sustainability
- To be excluded as an organisation from the world-wide
(and European) agenda
- n
Sustainable Development (including the global environmental issue).
- To step backward from the best practices already adopted
by Industry, other space agencies and even our States policies on Sustainable Development or Corporate Social responsibility.
- Last but not least not be in coherence with our core-
mission/core-business: exploration and exploitation of space for peaceful purposes (for ESA) and contribution to a more sustainable society and planet. Space operations must be sustainable.
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Introduction
- Necessary
to align
- ur
existing practices
- n
best standards for our internal operations but also for our projects in
- ur
core-business activities with the most innovative or qualitative solutions in the sustainability field.
- Obvious
and essential to cooperate with external partners on various sustainability issues:
- Space
agencies: NASA, CNES, DLR…(e.g:
- n
common goals, environmental management systems, green engineering, materials and processes substitution, testing or obsolescence problems)
- Industry: e.g on traceability
and transparency of information in the supplier chain (substances, processes).
- Universities
and research communities for updated benchmarks and expert studies and exchanges on specialised topics.
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7 “To provide for and promote, for exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation among European states in space research and technology and their space applications.”
- Article II of
ESA Convention
PURPOSE OF ESA
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SUSTAINABILITY @ESA: A STAKEHOLDER RELATIONS/MANAGEMENT APPROACH
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A stakeholder relations approach
Among Planet, Profit, People, corresponding to the environmental, economical and social (human) pillars
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sustainability; the People part is not the least. As a consequence, stakeholders’ relations/management are fundamental in the successful implementation
- f
Sustainability/CSR. Sustainability and CSR: why do they represent key policies and strategic issues for a company and an organisation? ÞResponsibility and accountability towards shareholders
- r
stakeholders, ÞIncreased importance
- f
the legal framework in the sustainability field to which organisations, their managers and staff have to comply with.
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ÞRespond to customers
- r
citizens requirements and expectations, a question of image towards public at large ÞLastly, sustainability materialises through both a global reflection and local actions in particular with communities. Due attention must be paid to the local environment and its population when an activity is performed on territories (also for legal reasons). Behind all this: there are people, human beings and their strategies, behaviours, actions.
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As a space agency it is essential to establish the right dialogue with our stakeholders, by chosing the right format and content. Because sustainability is definitely a topic to be shared. Let’s see how ESA connects with its stakeholders and first of all who are they.
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ESA’s stakeholders
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Relations
Towards external stakeholders: The decision-makers, the citizens, the tax payers Space programmes and applications:
- Support public policies
- Help
in reaching any
- f
the challenges
- f
the U.N Sustainable Development Goals
- by providing tools and data
- Contribute to a more sustainable society and to a more
secure and healthy planet
- Lastly, by the creation of socio-economical values, space
can also help to boost a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
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Towards partners and suppliers Space actors share the same types of concerns, challenges and
- pportunities. Exchanges of best practices are key for partnering
and cooperating:
- In
the materials and processes domain (use
- f
hazardous substances), Constraints mainly concern environmental regulations: current and future ones and our ability to react to their requirements and find adequate responses. The REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction
- f
Chemical substances) Regulation illustrates this risk.
- In the building and infrastructure area (energy savings and other
environmental aspects),
- In
the risk mitigation domain, in the supply-chain and responsible procurement fields, etc.
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The public at large Reporting on sustainability, a key policy element:
- For transparency purposes
- To
measure the evolution in commitments and associated resulting actions (e.g: the 20/20/20 EU target)
- To show how the business is run
- To benchmark with partners.
- To
disclose extra-financial data: environment and energy, HR and H&S, governance informations.
- Interesting to note that there is a trend in emerging
countries: customers ask for more transparency and dedicated actions in the sustainability field.
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Towards internal stakeholders
As from 2007, in a stepped approach, ESA has committed to be exemplary as a space agency and as an organisation and had the ambition ‘to be a model Agency for clean, responsible and sustainable space activities’. The first stakeholders involved and committed were and still are the ESA 22 Member-State Delegations. But this also implied a change in the way staff saw and run their
- profession. This was a real change in mindsets. Regarding core-
business activities it implied a cleaner and greener way to do things (i.e through ESA CleanSpace initiative which comprised the core business activities) and regarding support activities it also implied behaviours more responsible towards the Environment but also the Economical and the Human, Health and Safety aspects.
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This was the reason why in 2010 ESA Member States deliberately chose to implement a comprehensive Sustainable Development policy based on the ‘holistic’ approach which comprised respective actions in outer space and on the ground with four main areas: =>Environment =>Social (human ressources, health and safety) =>Economic =>Governance This global framework policy was followed in 2011 by a policy
- nly focused on Environment called «Sustainability of ESA
sites »
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@ ESA: A HOLISTIC APPROACH OF SUSTAINABILITY
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ESA’s holistic approach for sustainability
read on-line: http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/publications/SP-
1319/pageflip.html
Governance and ethics of space Space programmes contributing to a sustainable society Managing
- ur environment
responsibly Relations with partners and suppliers Human Resources and social responsibility ESA Sustainable Development Report 2009–10
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The Coordination Office on Sustainable Development
Our role regarding sustainability and stakeholders’ involvement
- Established in November 2008, now attached to the Director General’s
services, meaning more visibility and strategy towards internal and external stakeholders.
- Mandate: to demonstrate ESA is committed towards sustainability both as
an international organisation and as a space agency.
- How? 1- Policy elaboration [Global corporate policy, Environment and
Energy policy] 2- Support to implementation 3- Awareness and reporting actions; this in close cooperation with experts and representatives from all ESA Directorates.
- Since November 2013, the Office is ISO 9001 certified
- .
Nathalie Meusy Head of the Office, now expert Marion Mirailles, Ariane Bouilly Florent Piponnier (until 2017)
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4 Sustainability reports so far
Read on-line:
- A report on Sustainable Development is published every two years allowing:
- Internally: development of reporting tools in a stepped approach (e.g. environmental reporting) but also
for the follow-up of governance, social and economic data
- Externally:
- For taking into account international trends of Sustainability Reporting (e.g. GRI 4, EU intention to harmonise
CSR reporting tools by sector of activity)
- For demonstrating further accountability towards Member States and other stakeholders
→ CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY 2015-2016 report
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VARIETY OF RELATIONS AND DIALOGUE WITH STAKEHOLDERS FROM EUROPE TO U.S
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ROUNDTABLE SERIES Towards uniform sustainability practices
in the space sector
- Build
a platform amongst actors from different sectors
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activity in
- rder
to exchange on best practices and potential for cooperation,
- n
different sustainability topics
- Assess
how SD principles are being integrated into the space sector, identify concerns and try to find solutions
- Present ESA as a leader in the space sector
for applying the holistic approach of SD
- Create, in the space sector, a systematic
dialogue for cooperation
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topics
- f
interest (such as environmental reporting, responsible procurement, technical and regulatory requirements
- e.g.
REACH EU Reg.-, transparency and ethics, etc.)
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ROUNDTABLE SERIES: overview
In Paris, ESA/ HQ, thematic round-tables
- 26 April 2012 ‘Sustainable Development in corporate strategy of leading companies’
- 10 July 2012 ‘Environmental Management Systems and dedicated reporting’
- 5 November 2012 ‘Responsible Procurement and dedicated reporting’
- 26 November 2012 ‘Governance, ethics and social policies’
- 14 June 2013 ‘Sustainable Development Reporting and Communication’
- 8 October 2013 ‘Social Policies and Health and Safety’
- 27 November 2013 ‘Environmental performance on buildings’
In 3 ESA Member-States regions, Space for SD and SD in the Space sector w/focus
- n local specificities
- 26-27 May 2014 Lisbon, Portugal
10-11 November 2014, Stockholm, Sweden
- 9-10 March 2015, Prague, Czech Republic
- A dedicated brochure has been prepared and presented at the occasion of the ESA 50th Anniversary
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SPECIFIC ADDITIONAL ISSUES
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Space for Sustainability Award
Still dreaming of seeing a rocket launch and promote your project- idea among parliamentarians? Take your chance now with the 7th ESA-EISC Space for sustainability Award!! Applications will be opened from January until April 2019. The best of luck to all of you! Spread the news around your networks! #ESAEISCAward #Sustainability #Space https://www.space-sustainability-award.com/ https://www.facebook.com/EsaS4SAward/
PURPOSE OF THE AWARD
- Raise awareness
- Stimulate the debate on space and Sustainable Development
issues
- Be a tool for innovative and creative project ideas in those
areas The ‘Space for Sustainability Award’ is targeting students and young professionals under 30 residing in Europe, and will reward annually the best Project Idea that integrates application areas focusing on sustainability linked to space
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WORKSHOPS AND PARTNERSHIPS
For knowledge sharing, ESA’s image and space promotion, cross-fertilisation of ideas, multi-disciplinary exchanges and joint actions purposes with all our stakeholders, workshops and partnerships are key in the field of sustainability. Events where space actors meet:
- NASA/C3P/ESA
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ENVIRONMENT AND ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, PGS as from 2018
- LE BOURGET, INTERNATIONAL AERONAUTICAL CONGRESS
but also events with other sectors involved where space can be an asset or a model
- PLANETWORKSHOPS think tank on SD
- EC GREEN WEEK
- GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) Global CONFERENCE
- International
Space University and
- ther
academic Conferences
- TEDxHEC “Avant-garde thinking”
- ICC (International Chamber of Commerce)
- RISK MANAGEMENT FORUM
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Focus on COP21, the Conference on Climate Change
Special event: COP 21, Paris, 30 November- 11 December 2015 ESA natural actors in Climate summits are: Earth Observation Programmes, International Relations and Communication. SD should also be a partner by essence but through other channels or means such as: partnerships with various entities to contribute for the Space and Sustainable Development part. Regarding the 2015 COP 21 (Paris Climate and Energy Conference) contribute to side-events such as: The World Wide Citizens global consultation was meant to collect the concrete proposals on climate change of a selection of 10000 world-wide citizens from 100 countries to the Paris Conference (COP 21) on 6 June 2015 all over the world. ESA supported the training of the moderators of the consultation, ESA experts gave talks on what can space brings to citizens, planet and society, and a special message from the ISS was sent to
- participants. The results have been transmitted to the COP21 negotiators.
Other partners in the context of the Paris Conference: Green Cross, World Ocean Council, EcoAct, Tara expeditions for contributing to their Pavillions or events (in Le Bourget and in Paris) with ESA staff/workforce’s support and materials (brochures, SD reports, pictures, panel discussions, interviews etc.) for awareness purposes of both the public at large and decision-makers.
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New way to dialogue with stakeholders: a citizens’ debate
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EUROPEAN CITIZENS ENDORSE HUMANISTIC VALUES AS WELL AS CSR PRINCIPLES FOR THE SPACE STRATEGY OF THE FUTURE On 10 September 2016, the 1st Citizens’ debate on Space for Europe has been held during a whole day with more than 2000 citizens from 22 European countries (ESA Member-States), in 17
- languages. It was the first time that a space agency opened the
dialogue with its main stakeholders: the citizens, the tax-payers. During this great moment of participatory democracy, the citizens have been able to contribute to share the future space strategy for Europe, talk about their fears, concerns, wishes and dreams as well. They consider space as a common good at the service of the whole Humanity, of the solidarity and peace as well as the big challenges of the XXIst century (of which the protection of the environment and climate change issues form an important part).
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With regard to Sustainability, space activities can support societal needs and also address Climate Change monitoring. Space programmes, applications and associated data can also help in reaching any of the UN Sustainable Development Goals that all 193 United Nations Member States and at least 23 international
- rganisations had agreed to achieve in September 2015 towards
2030. See: Space_for_Earth catalogue
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Conclusions
Space activities are part of the solution but should not be a problem in some fields of sustainability. Therefore space actors must pursue their efforts for greening their systems and the way they operate on Earth on their sites respecting also the communities involved but also in Outer Space. The enlarged debate opened with this first Partnership for Global Sustainability international workshop is then more than promising for the future. THANK YOU!
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