Environmental reporting for policy evaluation purposes

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Environmental reporting for policy evaluation
purposes

• Ieva Rucevska
• Tbilisi IEA workshop, 26-28 November

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Environmental reporting for policy-making
purposes

• Almost without exception, the dynamics of an
  environmental issue is always a combined result
  of internal, often hidden dynamics and the
  impact of a collection of policy measures

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Role of policy
Domain of policies
Domain of environmental issues
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What policies influence the dynamics of a given
env. issues?
Domain of policies
Domain of environmental issues
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Policy effects and effectiveness

• Effects the impact of policy mix on a given
  environmental issue (example of Environmental
  Impact Assessment requires action in construction
  work)
• Effectiveness actual vs. planned or desirable
  performance of a single policy (does the existing
  policy air emissions?)

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Analysis of the policy effects

• Determaining issue status
• Identification of policies related to the issue
  policy context
• Scan for policy gaps
• Search for cross-sectoral linkages
• Summary of overall effects on the issue.

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Analyses of policy effects
Issue Passenger-km by rail and bus/coach, GDP
per capita, and car ownership in AC countries
Policy context A. National policies B.
Regional policies e.g., on sustainable
transport C. International policies e.g., on
negative impact of transport
Policy gaps A. Relevant policy not in place B.
Policy not implemented C. Policy misfunctioning
Source EEA Indicator Fact Sheets
Cross-sectorial linkages climate change -gt air
pollution -gt human health
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Identification policy gaps by type of policy
instruments
Status of implementation policy in place,
funding allocated under considerstion
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Analysis of policies effectiveness

• Identify and list current policies and
  legislation with a significant effects on the
  environment
• Identify performance criteria for the selected
  policies
• Evaluation selected policies - are the outcomes
  and outputs meeting the objectives of the
  measure?

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Examples of performance criteria

• Standarts e.g., water quality standarts for a
  variety of issues
• Policy specific targets e.g., official
  development assistance shall reach 0.4 of GDP
• Principles e.g., the policy should contribute to
  the increase of environmental literacy
• Benchmark e.g., highest percentage of households
  connected to sewage system in a comparable entity
  in the same juristiction.
• etc.

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Analysis of policies effectiveness
Environmental context Reduction of GHG is not
sustainable. The emisson level of 1990 is
expected to to be exceeded already.

• Policy context
• Kyoto Protocol UNFCCC

Evaluation of policy - reduction of GHG by 6
Hungary, Poland, and 8 by other AC countries
Source EEA fact sheets