State of Play

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State of Play
Session 4 Acting Globally - Practical capacity
building for eco-innovation
Dr. Guido Sonnemann, Programme Officer for
Sustainable Innovation,Division of Technology,
Industry and Economics
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The Green Economy Initiative

• Mobilizing and re-focusing the global economy
  towards investments in clean technologies and
  'natural' infrastructure such as forests and
  soils is the best bet for real growth, combating
  climate change and triggering an employment boom
  in the 21st century.
• In October 2008, UNEP launched the 2 year Green
  Economy Initiative (GEI)
• Green Economy report an overview, analysis and
  synthesis of how public policy can help markets
  accelerate the transition towards a green economy
• Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity a
  partnership project focusing on valuation issues
  and
• Green Jobs report, looks at employment trends

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The Business Case for greening
New Markets - Development of new products -
First mover advantage - Innovation in
addressing environmental concerns
Risk
Reward
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Building upon DTIE Initiatives
UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and
Economics (DTIE)
International Environmental Technology Centre
Chemicals
Economics and Trade
Sustainable Consumptionand Production
Energy
OzonAction
Business and Industry UNEP UNIDO JOINT CREP
Programme
Finance Initiative
Technology transfer
Policy
Urban and Transport
Finance Unit
Integrated Resources Management
Goods and Services
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Operationalising the Approach and Addressing the
Barriers

• 4 Key components to UNEP approach
• Policy
• Technology
• Finance
• Communication information, guidance, networks,
  training,
• Applies to DTIE activities of ETB, Energy and
  SCP branches
• In particular relevant for Finance Initiative,
  Resource Panel, Life Cycle Initiative, RECP
  programme (with UNIDO) and various Energy related
  projects
• All inter-related and necessary

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PolicyInstruments

• SCP indicators for measuring current status and
  progress with regard resource management in a
  life cycle perspective
• Indicators for measuring the impacts of policies
  applied to various industrial sectors
• Sustainable Procurement (public and private)
• Public and Private Financing
• Technology Verification and Performance Targets
• Knowledge Services (directories, handbooks,
  guidelines) and other information campaigns
• Trade (barriers, incentives)
• Economic instruments (taxes, subsidies)
• Voluntary agreements (certification systems).

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Finance
An investor initiative in partnership with UNEP
FI and the UN Global Compact
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Technology TransferFramework

• Identify technologies
• Assess markets for technologies, including
  barriers for transfer and finance conditions
• Create platform for action
• Study various sectors
• Implement identified actions for each sector
• Decide which actions at with level

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CommunicationElements

• Overall goals to
• Assess cutting-edge knowledge
• Collect best practice examples
• Set up global networks
• Raise awareness
• Provide guidance
• Develop training material
• Build capabilities
• Demonstrate practical applications
• Focus on businesses in developing countries
• In close co-operation with leading experts from
  around the world and centres of excellence in
  developing countries, like the National Cleaner
  Production Centres (NCPCs)

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UNEP Finance Initiative

• 18 year-old UNEP partnership with the financial
  industry, mostly private sector
• 170 financial institutions banks, insurers,
  asset managers
• From all the world regions Europe 48, Asia 29,
  North America 13, Africa 6
• Mission identify, promote, and realize the
  adoption of best environmental and sustainability
  practice at all levels of financial institution
  operations.

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• Applying the Principles for Responsible
  Investment Cleantech
• The Principles are designed to be applicable to
  all asset classes.
• Cleantech sector a particularly exciting sector
  for those investors ahead of the curve on
  environmental considerations.
• Cleantech highlighted by UNEPs new green deal
  as one of the priority sectors for investment.

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UNEPs Energy Branch

• Not being a financial institution, UNEP works in
  non-competitive ways with banking community
  leaders
• Mission To help overcome market barriers and
  increase investment flows to renewable energy and
  energy efficiency technologies
• Turning the finance sector into an ally promoting
  clean energy
• Supporting decision making, both amongst
  governments and financiers, helping to get
  policies enacted, financial strategies formed and
  new financial instruments launched
• Financial support mechanisms used to reduce the
  front-end barriers that hinder the development of
  solar market
• Approaches for softening loan financing Interest
  rate reductions, green mortgages, guarantee
  facilities.

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Lessons learned

• Technologies available market uptake slow
• Markets scale up quickly once banks start to lend
• Banks need help to get started
• Assessing technologies
• Marketing new loans
• Kick-starting demand
• Lending gives feedback signal that technology is
  mature
• Policy makers take a technology more seriously
  once banks lend
• Increasingly requested to replicate type of
  project
• Photovoltaic Loan Facility in India (Energy globe
  awarded in 2007)
• MEDREP - Mediterranean Renewable Energy Programme
• BALREP The Balkan Renewable Energy Programme
  (for SWH)
• GEF Solar Water Heating (SWH) Global Initiative

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Assessing cutting-edge knowledge
Financially supported among others by
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Global life cycle innovation network
MissionTo bring science-basedlife cycle
approaches into practice worldwide
Financially supported among others by
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A Practical Approach for Developing Economies

• Redesign and Benchmarking methodologies
• Combining Life Cycle approaches, the Cleaner
  Production (CP) and product innovation
  interventions
• Guidance to companies or those who work with them
  to pursue internal D4S efforts (via the supply
  chain or single operation context)
• Focus on incremental improvements rather than
  deep innovation
• Available in English, Spanish, Vietnamese
• Applied at national level in Vietnam, further to
  testing in Morocco and Costa Rica

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Experiences from demonstration projects

• A promising combination between traditional CP
  (developed by UNIDO/UNEP), which in Vietnam is
  more focused on process, with D4S approach
  (developed by UNEP and partners), which focuses
  on sustainable products
• Coaching and experience sharing are critical at
  key stages of the projectsuch product selection
• Marketing component needed
• Bottom-up approach and step-by-step methodology
  for SMEs
• Build capacity in NCPC to evaluate product
  market supply chain points of intervention,
  support local and international experts

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EC funded Project on Sustainable Innovation

• Preparation of Industrial Sector Studies
• Recycling from E-Waste to Resources
• Critical metals for future sustainable
  technologies and their recycling potential
• Technology Transfer for reducing the carbon
  footprint example of cleaner technologies for
  food processing
• Review of Bioenergy Life-Cycles- Results of
  Sensitivity Analysis for Biofuel GHG Emissions
• Study on global flow of metals
• Decoupling economic growth from resource use and
  environmental impact
• Studies were identified by UNEP, EC, Sustainable
  Innovation Group and/ or Resource Panel
  membersto support the work of the International
  Panel for Sustainable Resource Management.

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Recycling from E-wasteto Resources

• Setting the scene for capacity building and
  technology transfer by bringing eco-innovative
  responses to the needs in developing countries in
  the area of Resource Efficiency
• Focus on e-waste recycling technologies,
  including a range of metals, (ferrous and
  non-ferrous metals) and other materials
• Analysis of barriers for uptake of relevant
  technologies fore-waste recycling sector in
  selected developing countries
• Application of the Technology Transfer
  Frameworkin order to foster the transfer of
  innovative technologiesin the e-waste recycling
  sector
• Identification of centres of excellence in
  emerging economies relevant for e-waste recycling
  technologies
• Under finalisation to become UNEP/ UNU joint
  publication

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Thank You!
For more information about UNEPs work on
Sustainable Innovation Guido Sonnemann Programme
Officer for Innovation and Life Cycle
Management Sustainable Consumption and Production
Branch Division of Technology, Industry
Economics United Nations Environment
Programme 15 rue Milan 75441 Paris Cedex 09,
France Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
1474 E-mail sc_at_unep.fr http//www.unep.fr/scp