Development of the strategic environmental assessment methodology in Russia

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• National Pollution Abatement Facility
  Executive Directorate
•  Renaissance Finance International Ltd

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National Pollution Abatement Facility

• Objective - is validation in practice of
  financial support tools promoting the best
  implementation of pollution abatement investments
  by financing priority environmental projects out
  of proceeds of the IBRD Loan to the Government of
  the Russian Federation (3806-RU) and a grant of
  the Government of the Swiss Confederation (TF
  3810).

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National Pollution Abatement Facility

• Since 1995, the NPAF ED has considered more than
  500 investment proposals, evaluated and prepared
  for financing 63 investment projects in various
  industries. Seven projects are being implemented.

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National Pollution Abatement Facility

• Bark-wood waste recovery and reduction of power
  consumption for cellulose production at OJSC
  Solombala pulp-and-paper mill
• Creation of the closed water-supply system at
  Baikal Pulp-and-?aper ?ill to eliminate
  industrial wastewater discharges into the lake
  Baikal
• Reduction of environmental impact from the Kotlas
  Pulp-and-?aper ?ill through the replacement of
  evaporation station
• Improvement of environmental situation in
  Volgograd through essential reduction of air
  emissions from chemical enterprises ?lastkard
  and Volgogradneftepererabotka
• Reduction of energy consumption at cardboard
  production and utilization of bark-wood waste
  from the bleached deciduous pulp line at OJSC
  "Arkhangelsk PPM"
• Technical reequipment of cardboard production at
  the DAO "KARTON" for the reduction of energy
  consumption and air emissions (OJSC "Arkhangelsk
  PPM")
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National Pollution Abatement Facility

• For project selection, evaluation and
  implementation, the NPAF ED has developed such
  documents as
• Manual on the environmental assessment of
  investment projects (1999),
• Guidelines for preparation of environmentally
  sound investment projects (2002),
• Recommendations for organisation of procurements
  of goods and services (2002).

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National Pollution Abatement Facility

• The NPAF ED is an active participant of
  international projects
• UNDP/GEF Project "Russian Federation Removing
  Barriers to Coal Mine Methane Recovery and
  Utilisation"
• BRD/GEF Project "Russia Renewable Energy
  Program"
• Projects of Prototype Carbon Fund of the World
  Bank Program of the Dutch Government ERUPT-4 (the
  NPAF ED has developed and submitted to ERUPT-4
  application for financing project "Increase of
  energy efficiency and reduction of greenhouse gas
  emissions at the Kotlas Pulp-and-Paper Mill)

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National Pollution Abatement Facility

• NPAF and SEA
• SEA of Kyoto protocol for Russia
• SEA of Energy strategy of the Russian
  Federation (preliminary participation)
• 3. SEA of National Action Plan on the Protection
  of Arctic Sea Environment

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Renaissance Finance International Ltd

• RFI is a not-for-profit company incorporated in
  the UK
• It main areas of activity are
• National Energy and Environmental Investment
  Training Framework.
• Environmental Investment Training.
• Energy Efficiency Investment Training Programme.
• Industrial Cooperation Initiative for Russian and
  European companies in the civil nuclear sector.

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Renaissance Finance International Ltd

• RFI mission is to assist organisations and
  investors in every step of the investment cycle
  to achieve ecologically sound project finance in
  energy end environmental sectors in emerging
  market countries. We are looking for partnerships
  to bring locally adapted, tailor-made
  environmental investment programmes to various
  countries including Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria,
  Hungary, Romania and other Central and East
  European countries.

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Renaissance Finance International Ltd

• RFI has implemented projects on behalf of the
  United Nations, the European Commission, the
  European Parliament, the European Bank for
  Reconstruction and Development, the Global
  Environmental Fund, the Ministry of Atomic Energy
  of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Energy
  of the Russian Federation, the Ministries of
  Environment of Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, HM
  Governments Department for International
  Development and Department for Trade and Industry
  and a number of private and public companies in
  the UK and abroad.

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Renaissance Finance International Ltd

• RFI has participated in projects funded by DFID
  in the framework of the DFID EPD Enabling
  Agreement
•   Preparation of DFID Cleaner Production Project
  in Ekaterinburg, Russia. An extensive appraisal
  of the project was undertaken and detailed Terms
  of Reference prepared for an intended large
  project in the Urals.
•        Preliminary Evaluation of the
  Environmental Impacts of the Russias Accession
  to the World Trade Organisation, a report on
  behalf of DFID, May 2002.
• Preparation in a project for Assessment of
  Potential Opportunities for Cleaner Coal
  Technologies in Russia on behalf of DTI, 2003

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Project Development of SEA methodology for the
Russian Federation

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology for the Russian Federation

• Project Goal
• development (on the basis of foreign experience
  and in view of national legal features)
  methodology of SEA implementation (draft
  instructive and regulatory documents) for the
  development of plans and programs of social and
  economic development at national and regional
  levels of the Russian Federation .

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• Project Purposes
• (1) Development of SEA scientific base
• (i) Formulation of principles, criteria and
  purposes of SEA implementation
• (ii) Development of rules and procedures for SEA
  implementation at the development of
  strategic decisions
• (iii) Structuring the process of strategic
  decision development
• (iv) Adaptation of SEA implementation rules and
  procedures to various documents at the
  strategic level (concepts, plans, programs)

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• Project Purposes
• (2) Development of the guidance/regulatory
  documents allowing strategic decision-makers to
  understand what is required for SEA
  implementation, including various approaches,
  which can be used regarding various strategic
  documents
• (i)   Guidelines on SEA implementation
• (ii) Draft regulatory documents for the order of
  SEA implementation ("Provisions for SEA in
  the Russian Federation", "Classification
  of SEA subjects", etc.)

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• Project Purposes
• (3) Advanced training of experts engaged in the
  development of strategic decisions and those, who
  may be involved in realisation of strategic
  evaluation by the organisation and realisation of
  training seminars and training courses on SEA
  issues.

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• Project Purposes
• (4) Validation in practice of SEA methodology
  developed under the project by SEA implementation
  at the project Support of the National Action
  Plan on Protection of Arctic Sea Environment
  (NAP-Arctic) or other projects requested by
  Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the
  Russian Federation.

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• Project Beneficiaries
• Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
• Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian
  Federation
• representatives of regional authorities, and
• industrial corporations.

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• Definition of the SEA concept and sphere of
  application
• It is important to formulate the SEA concept and
  sphere of its application, having shown that it
  will be effective at the availability of
• (i) political frameworks establishing
  interrelation of the strategic level of
  decisions with branch and regional
  policies, plans and programs
• (ii) probable and feasible options of any
  offered decision
• (iii) sufficient level of uncertainty which
  characterises any political and planning
  decisions
• (iv) simple tools (mechanisms) for involving of
  all interested parties into the
  decision-making process.

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• The sphere of SEAs application
• international agreements
• plans and programs of social, economic and
  sectoral development
• programs of regional planning, etc.

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• Formulation of SEA principles and criteria
• integrated approach provision of assessment of
  all strategic decisions necessary for sustainable
  development, consideration in interrelation of
  environmental and social and economic aspects of
  strategic decisions
• orientation to sustainable development -
  revealing of options of all strategic decisions
  and most environmentally sound proposals out of
  them
• efficiency use of sufficient and trustworthy
  information for planning development and
  decision-making, concentration on key issues of
  sustainable development efficiency in funds and
  time consumption
•  reporting responsibility of agencies for
  accepted strategic decisions
• openness for participation - involving of
  interested and affected public at all phases of
  the decision-making process

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• Development of SEA rules and procedures
• revealing and comparison of the strategic
  proposal options
• description of the chosen strategic proposal
• review of various decisions under the strategic
  proposal
• setting of environmental indicators of the
  strategic proposal
• forecast of probable environmental changes in
  case of the strategic
• proposal implementation
• evaluation of probable impacts and revealing of
  consequences of the strategic proposal
  implementation
• monitoring for the strategic proposal
  implementation

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• The documentation of the strategic level in
  Russia
• state forecasts of social and economic
  development (for 20, 10 and 5 years)
• Concept of Social and Economic Development
• Mid-term Program of Social and Economic
  Development (for 4 years)
• Indicator Plan of Social and Economic Development
  (for 1 year)
• earmarked integrated programs subdivided under
  the contents in social and economic, scientific
  and technical, productive and economic, and
  environmental programs

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• Legal base of strategic planning in Russia
• Federal Law "On State Forecasting, Indicator
  Planning and Social and Economic Development
  Programs of the Russian Federation" (115-FZ
  1995)
• Order of development and implementation of
  Federal Target Programs (including
  intergovernmental in which Russia participates),
  approved by Decision of GoR 594 dated 26.06.1995

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• Development of the Guidelines for SEA
• The purpose of the Guidelines development
  is the creation
• of conditions and methodological base for
  training of participants of strategic level
  document preparation, which will provide their
  conformity to regulatory requirements, including
  environmental.
• The object of studies at the Guidelines
  development is SEA process itself at preparations
  of strategic decisions at all phases, since the
  moment of selection of a social and economic
  problem to be addressed and to formation of the
  program of particular actions subject to
  realisation as a set of small projects.

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• Stages of strategic decision making
• declaration (Decrees and Orders of President,
  governmental decisions, etc.)
• concepts (concept of sustainable development of
  Russian Arctic, long-term plans of development of
  different types of economic activities in Arctic
  area)
• Programs (programs of regional, sectoral and
  territorial development (action program of
  federal executive authorities, subjects of
  Federation and economic entities in Arctic area
  dealing with complex development of Arctic Sea
  Routs)

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• Each section at each particular phase will
•  define SEA purposes, tasks and participants
• result the order of SEA fulfilment, methods and
• structure of works
• formulate requirements to composition and
  structure of SEA documents and their formats (on
  the base of available and developed in the
  Guidelines specifications)

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodologyin Russia

• Approbation of the proposed SEA
• National Action Plan on the Protection of Arctic
  Sea Environment (NAP-Arctic) -
• developed within FTP World ocean in 2001.
• approved by parliament hearings on March 12,
  2001.
• approved by Order of Ministry of Economic
  Development and Trade on Septempber 8, 2001

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• NAP-Arctic
• The RF needs to implement actions for protection
  of the Arctic environment on the basis of
  systemic approach, which would
• (i) correspond to the purposes of industrial
  and social development and civil society
  formation in Russia
• (ii) answer to interests of the Arctic
  population, including small indigene peoples
• (iii) promote sustainable consumption of
  natural resources

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• NAP-Arctic considers
• Improvement of mechanism of state management
• Increasing of energy-independence of Arctic
  regions
• Increasing the reliability and efficiency of work
  of Arctic transport system
• (iv) Improvement of management system of
  economic and social development
• (v) Raising efficiency of international
  cooperation within Arctic Council, International
  Arctic Scientific Committee and other
  international non-governmental institutions.

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• Environmental aspects of NAP-Arctic
• (i) Monitoring and evaluation of state of Russian
  Arctic seas contamination
• (ii) Development of legal base on sustainable
  natural resources use
• (iii) Development of investment projects aimed at
  prevention of Arctic seas contamination
• (iv) Organisational and technical measures on
  prevention of Arctic seas from contamination and
  remediation actions
• (v) Participation of the Russian federation in
  international programs on prevention of Arctic
  seas from inhomogeneous contamination.

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in RussiaAn example of
environmentally sound strategic decision making

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• The general contents of the Guidelines will
  correspond to the structure of strategic decision
  development and will include three sections, each
  of which represents a certain phase of strategic
  decision development
• declarative (1),
• ?onceptual (2),
• program (3).
• The Guidelines are focused on strategic
  decisions, which realisation will render a
  significant environmental impact, including
  transboundary.

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

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Development of the strategic environmental
assessment methodology in Russia

• SEA procedure includes several elements
• (i) Initial analysis (screening) of alternative
  variants of strategic decisions
•        (ii) Evaluation of scale of potential
  environmental impacts
•        (iii) Mapping of influenced territories
  and objects
•      (iv) Projections of changes in the
  environment
• (v) Identification and assessment of
  environmental, social and economic consequences
  of particular strategic decision, through public
  discussions