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Business & Industry Global Dialogue ’08 Hosted by UNEP with ICC Day 1: Welcome by Sylvie Lemmet Director, UNEP DTIE T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Global Dialogue ‘08 Agenda – two strategic priorities: Day 1: Climate Change – A dialogue on sectoral responses Day 2: SCP through Resource Efficiency, The Marrakech Process T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Global Dialogue ‘08 Expected Outcomes: Improved understanding, common ground on industry sector approaches Shared lessons from industry sectors, regions, countries Update on innovations in Resource Efficiency, ways to advance sustainable products, value chains, lifestyles Suggested collaboration, initiatives, messages for a 10 Yr Framework on SCP 2012 T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 The UNEP Division working with industry DTIE core competencies climate change / energy Technology economics/trade markets/behavioural change environmentally harmful substances resource efficiency (industry) T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Spectrum of Activities Hard Technologies Soft Technologies Public sectors (global to local) Hard law, regulation Aid / donor agencies Business & industry sectors (housing, food, mobility, etc) Renewable energy tech Water & Waste tech Soft law, selfCollective, regulation, network partnerships pooling Marrakech Process / CSD Management Methodologies, systems, tools, assessment, approaches (eg hot spots, life cycle anal, prioritisation supply chain managm, reporting) Other societal partners (research, NGOs) Collab Centres of Excellence NCPC network, Expert working groups, Consumer Centres of organisations Excellence Foundations T H E M E D I U Research, Knowledge M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y Finance 2 Sustainable, responsible investment Helping 1st movers, seed funding, local banks 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Climate Change Agenda UNEP experience: Over 20 years working on climate change Helped establish the IPCC with the WMO Supported the negotiation of the UNFCCC UNEP focus today: One of six thematic priorities for external delivery Internally: UN greening - towards a C-Neutral UN UN SG pledged, on World Environment Day 2007 “…to explore ways of making the United Nations more climate friendly and environmentally sustainable, and to develop a climate-neutral approach to its premises and operations.” T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Strategic Approach UNEP’s Climate Change Strategy • Builds on UNEP’s distinctiveness • Is structured around four themes: Adaptation Mitigation Improving understanding of science Communication and raising awareness T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Climate Focus Countries, Sectors Limiting the scope in order to achieve more tangible results and greater impact: • Adaptation and ecosystems, capacity building: Africa, SIDS, megadeltas: Asia, Latin America: • low lying coasts, drylands mountains, tropical forests Mitigation finance and technology: middle-income, emerging and carbon intensive economies T H • CDM and the carbon market: • Land use; land use change and forestry; redd: developing countries with few CDM projects to date, especially those in Africa developing countries, especially those with sizeable tropical forests that have most to gain from REDD E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Examples of climate activities • Finance: $60 million for capacity building to mobilize finance – Policy advice – Local banks: end users + seed capital products • Technology support: $60 million – Needs assessments, market analysis, policy support – Regional capacity building networks – Phasing out of most obsolescent technologies T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Examples of climate activities • Insurance: Assistance for development of financial risk insurance policies for renewable energy projects in emerging / developing countries • Commercial finance – Technical assistance and support for lending for solar water heaters in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt (MEDREP). Extended in the Balkan region. – Cost sharing support for innovative clean energy investment funds (SCAF) • Public finance: UNFCCC/UNEP Public finance instruments for climate change mitigation-Options document T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Partnering with Others • UNEP is a (co-)convening agency for REDD, CB, Public Awareness, C-Neutral UN • UNEP cooperates and complements work of other UN agencies e.g.: UNFCCC Secretariat - strategic communications, support of negotiations process, analysis of Public Finance Instruments UNDP - piloting new and entrepreneurial approaches, develop guidelines and blueprints World Bank – capacity building, technical assistance, private sector engagement: - Climate Investment Funds - Forest Carbon Partnership Facility T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Partnering with Business UNEP Finance Initiative: Banks and insurance industry, engaged in WGs on climate, asset management, biodiversity, sustainability reporting Annual Roundtable in Geneva this week Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles: Fuel and vehicle industry in action to reduce vehicular air pollution in developing countries Expanded work programme on cleaner fleets, fuel efficiency, cleaner motorcycles, low emission vehicles; air pollution and GHG gas co-benefits in road transportation Sustainable Building & Construction Initiative: Building industry collaboration on global policy making – climate, energy & global benchmarking T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Partnering with Business Sustainable Tourism: • Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Tourism Development • Sustainable Investment in Financing for Tourism (SIFT) Network • Sustainable Tourism Criteria, Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council UNEP / SETAC Life Cycle Initiative: Life cycle experts from companies, industry associations and research institutions Examine new developments in life cycle analysis, management Work with WBCSD and others to assess new tools such as carbon footprinting T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Let’s get to work • Use the group discussions to raise your views Identify common needs Suggest and assess areas for collaboration Report back and engage your sectors, regions • • • www.unep.fr T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Business & Industry Global Dialogue ’08 Hosted by UNEP with ICC Day 2 : Welcome by Sylvie Lemmet Director, UNEP DTIE T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Crises… towards 2012 T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Limits to Growth > Green Economy • Green Economy – Value of environmental investments to economic growth, decent jobs creation, and poverty reduction. – Encourage policy makers to reflect it in their investment and economic policy decisions. – ILO/UNEP report “Green jobs: Towards decent work in a sustainable, low-carbon economy” Sept 2008. Potential of millions of green jobs; calls for decent work conditions in new green jobs and just transition for affected job holders. • The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB): – develop a global study and process to analyse the benefits of biodiversity, the costs of its loss due to inaction, and the costs of effective conservation. T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 The Resource Efficient Society • The Economic Case • The Business Case Goods Raw materials Process Bads (waste, emissions etc) Intermed goods • The Consumer’s Case T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 RE Focus Countries, Sectors Limiting the scope in order to achieve more tangible results and greater impact: T • Rapidly industrialising countries with high resource inefficiency, low environmental performance index • Natural resource-dependent, less developed countries, with limited technical and financial resources • Highly resource intensive industries, as shown from material flows analysis, life cycle analysis, GWP – Building & Construction – Metals & Automotive Manufacturing – Food & Beverages H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Partnering … emerging Food and fisheries: Sustainable agricultural practices in supplier countries, select commodities Food retail collaboration to promote value chain innovation Harmonisation and support in wider introduction of credible standards, labelling Business & Water Efficiency: Partnering with Global Compact CEO Water Mandate Water footprinting, supply chain collaboration, reporting methodologies, management tools Pilot testing in water scarce countries, eg Africa (beverages / drinks industries) T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Marrakech Process on SCP • Process launched at the Johannesburg Summit (WSSD), 2002 • Developing a 10 Year Framework of Programmes on SCP • To be discussed by UN Commission on Sustainable Development in 20102011 > towards Rio+20 / Jhb+10 • This meeting > group discussions and multistakeholder process, to discuss proposed input T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3 Let’s get to work • Use the group discussions to raise your views Identify common needs Suggest and assess areas for collaboration Report back and engage your sectors, regions • • • www.unep.fr T H E M E D I U M UNITED – T ENATIONS R M ENVIRONMENT S T R APROGRAMME T E G Y 2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 3