Action Plan Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sustainable Industrial Policy Dino Pinelli Bruxelles 9 December 2008
DG Enterprise and Industry Unit B1 Sustainable Industrial Policy Ensure competitiveness aspects in environment, energy and transport policies Climate and energy policy Quality of air, water, soil Waste and transport policies Develop proactively a sustainable industrial policy Setting appropriate framework conditions to enable industry to turn environmental challenges into opportunities
The Sustainable Industrial Policy Environmental challenges entail business opportunities European industry well positioned to seize those opportunities Policy to set appropriate framework conditions to unleash the green potential of industry
Sustainable Industrial Policy: Three main blocks Better products on the Internal Market: A dynamic life cycle approach to product policy [see previous presentation] An industrial policy for environmental industries: examining and tackle the barriers that hamper the competitiveness of environmental industries Contributing to a global low carbon and sustainable economy: supporting the development of sectoral approaches in international negotiation on climate
Industrial policy for eco-industries Background Eco-industries and services have a turnover of around 2.2% of EU GDP and employ 3.4 million people Growth is predicted to be exponential Eco-industries are the enablers of change in providing innovative solutions to meet the environmental objective with net benefits for the economy
Industrial policy for eco-industries Principles Start of sectoral initiatives for eco-industries in line with principles of industrial policy Exploiting synergies with existing initiatives Lead Markets, ETAP, SET action plan, initiatives at Member State level Launching new initiatives if needed Competitiveness screening of eco-industry to identify and tackle barriers to their competitiveness
Industrial policy for eco-industries The study Content Literature review, industry facts and data, analysis of framework conditions, eco-industry and its supply chain, strategic outlook and policy suggestions Competitiveness factors better regulation, standardisation, internal market, R&D and innovation, international dimension, competition issues
Contributing to a global low carbon economy Industrial sectors starting to develop sectoral approaches and commit to emission or energy-efficiency benchmarks Good potential for contributing to the post-2012 framework stabilising the emissions from these sectors globally and addressing carbon leakage Study assessing needs for capacity building in key emerging economies and identifying key elements for SA in the post 2012 UN climate framework
Action Plan – COM(2008)397 My contacts details http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/environment/sip/sip_a1_en.htm My contacts details dino.pinelli@ec.europa.eu tel +32 2 29 69 698 THANK YOU!