Promoting Cleaner Production

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Promoting Cleaner Production

• Siarhei Darozhka,
• Belarusan National Technical University, Minsk
• Borki-Molo, BUP EM Course Teachers Conference,
• 30.06.2006

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Supporting Cleaner Production
NATURAL
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Supporting Cleaner Production
MAN-MADE
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Supporting Cleaner Production
REALITY
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Supporting Cleaner Production

• Implementing and supporting process of CP
  projects needs to have
• Promotion and information
• Capacity building, and development of
  institutions
• Sharing of international experience and
  cooperation
• Influences from market forces
• Actions of authorities legal measures and
  taxation
• Economical support of authorities and others
  subsidies
• Cooperation with stakeholders
• Education and training

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International Declaration on Cleaner Production
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CP supported Institutions

• Networks and Partnerships for CP Promotion
  (WEC,REC, LEEP, etc.)
• International organisations (UNEP, UNIDO, OECD,
  WBCSD, WB, EEA, ERCP)
• National Cleaner Production Centres

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Range of Policy Instruments
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CP Policy instruments

• There exist two or three dozen of commonly used
  policy instruments, which fall into three general
  categories
• Regulatory instruments - which require or mandate
  specific behaviour, e.g. determine what is
  prohibited, what is allowed, and how to carry out
  certain activities

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CP Policy instruments

• Economic Instruments, which create incentives or
  disincentives for specific behaviours, by
  changing related economic conditions
• Information-based strategies , which seek to
  change behaviour by providing information. The
  underlying assumption is that the actors do not
  take optimal or correct decisions for lack of
  information or know-how

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Regulatory Instruments and Promoting Cleaner
Production

• Mandatory review of applicability of Cleaner
  Production within the permitting process
• Regulation of emissions by mass instead of
  concentration, to encourage reduction rather than
  dilution
• Environmental impact reports
• Permits for all hazardous emissions
• Public disclosure of standard emissions, inputs
  and efficiency of their use, as well as any
  spills, releases, or accidents
• The training of environmental inspectors to
  identify and recommend pollution prevention
  opportunities
• Enabling companies to spend money from penalties
  and fines on cleaner production initiatives
• Pollution regulation through economic instruments
  instead of command-and-control
• Introduction of an integrated permitting approach
  (IPPC).

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Cleaner Production Investments

• government funds
• resources from national budget
• donations
• grants
• fees and fines
• environmental taxes and product charges
• other resources

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Information-Based Strategies

• Promoting the adoption of targeted, high-profile
  demonstration projects, to demonstrate the
  techniques and costsaving opportunities
  associated with cleaner production
• Encouraging educational institutions to
  incorporate preventive environmental management
  within their curricula
• Publication of information on environmental
  performance, for example, by establishing a
  pollutant release and transfer register and
  stimulating voluntary corporate reporting
• Eco-labelling and environmental product
  declarations schemes
• Promoting effective training initiatives
• High profile awards for enterprises that have
  effectively implemented cleaner production

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Stakeholder Involvement

• Industry
• Government local authorities
• Educational institutions
• Employees
• Suppliers and customers
• Financial organisations
• and NGOs.

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Barriers for Cleaner Production

• Lack of interest and commitment by Senior
  Executives
• Poor organization of CP Program
• Poorly defined goals, responsibilities and
  timetable
• Fear of tacking decision
• Resistance to change
• Blocks to creativity

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New Idea Killing

• Dont forget that we must also earn money!
• You will never be able to sell this idea to the
  management
• Lets think more about that, LATER
• I know its not possible
• We are too small/big for that
• We have already tried that (We havent)
• That will be too expensive!
• NOW is not the right time for this discussion
• That will mean more work!
• We have always done it this way/so why should we
  change now?
• You dont quite understand the problem
• Lets take it up again/later/much later
• In our branch its different
• Let somebody else try it first
• It doesnt fit into our long-term planning
• Talk to Lars, this is not my field
• We have already over-spent our budget for this
  year
• It wont work/and besides that/its against our
  policy
• We have no time for that

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Education and Training for Employees

• The training program may include the following
  themes
• Concepts and activities of cleaner production
• Activities for creation of cleaner production
  projects of simple processes
• Review of opportunities for cleaner production
• Process of implementation, possible obstacles and
  how to go it through
• Opportunities for cleaner production projects of
  complex processes
• How to resist pressure of business, practical
  exercises
• Communication between participants within the
  projects of cleaner production, practical
  exercises
• Widening and deepening knowledge of opportunities
  for cleaner production
• Team work skills
• Priority list of opportunities for cleaner
  production, exercises
• Value of contribution of all employees in the
  cleaner production program

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Links between Cleaner Production and other Tools

• ISO 14001/EMS
• Environmental Policies (sectoral, intersectoral -
  industrial development policy, foreign trade
  policy/customs policy, investment promotion
  policy, fiscal policy and tax regimes, energy and
  transport policy, agricultural policy, education
  and science and technology policy, health policy)
• IPPC Directive is an example of a comprehensive
  approach to regulating the environmental impacts
  from production facilities
• Integrated Product Policy (IPP) concept as a
  comprehensive approach to product-related
  environmental problems
• Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) as a
  policy principle to promote total life cycle
  environmental improvements of product systems

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Thank you and good luck while teaching CP!