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Eco-innovation

Liazzat Rabbiosi

Sustainable Lifestyles, Cities, and Industry Branch For « Delivering SCP » Liazzat.rabbiosi@unep.org

Sustainable resource management Design for sustainability D4S /sustainable product innovation Cleaner production & Resource Efficiency and Eco-innovation

Sustainable transport Consumer information Sustainable procurement Sustainable marketing Sustainable lifestyles and education Waste Management

Sustainable Consumption and Production through circular economy and eco- innovation

Delivering SCP

Working along the value chain towards integrated solutions and shared value

LCA data, methods and tools Sustainable food systems Food processing Sustainable product information Sustainable lifestyles and practices Food waste, in cities context

Consumer Waste Distribution & Retail Manufacturing Raw Materials SUPPLY CHAIN = LOGISTICS LIFE CYCLE VALUE CHAIN = ECONOMIC/SOCIAL VALUE

A holistic process that helps integrate systematically sustainability factors in strategic and daily decision-making of key players across the value chain by considering impacts along the life cycle of a company  Source of innovation

Eco-innovati tion approach

Value to Society

Singular interventions to improve processes and products rethinking business strategies and models which mainstreams sustainability throughout all business operations across the value chain

Value to Business

Eco-innovation Tinkering around edges Eco-innovation  system innovation

Key Ingredients of Eco-innovation

Life cycle thinking Three pillars of sustainability Business strategy and model Value chain cooperation

Business model innovation through ‘R’

Refuse Reduce Reuse Refurbish Repair Remanufacture Redistribute Recover Recycle

RETHINK

Value chain collaboration

• A company cannot solve its own problems, need

to work in partnership to create a shared value along the value chain

Natura

Product SOU compared to conventional cosmetic products:

• 70% less plastic used
• 60% lower CO2 emissions
• Lower transportation costs
• Innovation in the formula (ingredients)
• More attractive retail price = new customer segment

 Continuous R&D and marketing research  Open innovation  LCA approach to product development

Business Strategy: Innovation for market differentiation and sustainability Suppliers (often local communities from the Amazon area)

 Shadow pricing  Supply development services  Forest preservation initiatives

Consumers

 Network marketing  Labelling with LCA scoring  Targeting lower income customers

Vietlien; existing business model

Vietlien

• rganic

farming

Dish washing liquid production Guava tea leaves Traditional farmers producing and selling guava

Vietlien: proposed BM

Invest in infrastructure for safe guava cultivation and tourism facility Public procurement of local branded guava products

1. Tourism and lodging services 2. Sale of local branded products 1. Sale of processed guava products with local brand for tourist. 2. Tourism venue (guava farm)

Processed guava products Viet Lien company Value proposition:  Guava dishwasher  Tea processing facility  Guava tea  Technical hub for support, sale of soil and organic fertilizers

A - Vietnam: Joint Policy Mainstreaming & Pilot SME Application (Agri-food) B - Sri Lanka: Pilot SME Application (Agri-food) C – South Africa: Pilot SME Application (Metals) D – Uganda: Pilot SME Application (Agri-food) E – Kenya: Policy Mainstreaming F – Egypt: Pilot SME Application (Chemicals) G – Colombia: Joint policy mainstreaming & pilot SMEs Application (Chemicals and Metals) F – Peru: Joint policy mainstreaming & pilot SMEs application (Chemicals and Metals)

How to implement Eco-innovation?

Overview of manual

Overview Main content Checklist Supporting tools References and resources

Structure of each section:

Eco-innovation Manual and its supplements

Manual

Chemical Metal Agri- food

Encompasses technological and non-technological, product, process and organizational solutions in combination and aggregation towards radical and systemic change

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Liazzat Rabbiosi, UNEP/DTIE/ Liazzat.rabbiosi@unep.org www.unep.org

www.unep.org/ecoinnovationproject