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Sustainability considerations:Industry and developing countries
Dr Rocio A Diaz Chavez
Centre for Environmental Policy
Imperial College London
SCOPE 2010 Award Young Scientist
Low Carbon Energy for Development LCEDN Workshop
World Café 1
Sustainable development
• Sustainable development- effective implementation needs participation
• Environmental management tools such as ESIA and SEA include public participation (stakeholders)
• “Social sustainable development” has social elements considered. Also included in some international conventions e.g. ILO
• Included in some voluntary standards
Methodologies for sustainability assessment
• Indicators (criteria, principles)• LCA• SEA• ESIA• Mapping stakeholders• Corporate Social Responsibility• Sustainability Reporting
Regional and local levels
Objectives
Demonstration
Data & indicators
Environmental Policy & Institutions
•Land use change
•Environmental impacts
•LCA and supply chain
•GHG and other emissions (e.g. NOx, particulates)
•Waste
• policies plans & projects
•Directives
•Incentives
•Barriers
•Institutional capacity
Economic
• national, regional and local economy
•livelihoods
•Incentives
•Barriers
Social
•LCA Social impacts
• GHG and other emissions (health)
• social organisation
•Land property
•Gender
Research
FRAMEWORK
(Diaz-Chavez, 2003, 2006)
Cumulative and indirect impacts
Enforcement
Traditional focus
Whose sustainability?
(Dalal-Clayton, & Daler, 2005)
EU-recognised schemes for biofuels (2012)
1. ISCC (German (government financed) scheme covering all types of biofuels)
2. Bonsucro EU (Roundtable initiative for sugarcane based biofuels, focus on Brazil)
3. RTRS EU RED (Roundtable initiative for soy based biofuels, focus on Argentina and Brazil)
4. RSB EU RED (Roundtable initiative covering all types of biofuels)
5. 2BSvs (French industry scheme covering all types of biofuels)
6. RSBA (Industry scheme for Abengoa covering their supply chain)
7. Greenergy (Industry scheme for Greenergy covering sugar cane ethanol from Brazil)
8. Ensus (production of ethanol)
9. Red Tractor (Verification system for farms with mixed crops and sugarbeet)
10. SQC (Scottish Quality Farm Assured Combinable Crops (SQC) scheme)
11. Red Cert (For EU MS and Ukraine and Belarussia for biofuels)
12. NTA 8080 National Dutch system
Global Bioenergy Partnership GBEP
EU Monitoring for RED
Biodiversity
Ecosystem services
Red listInvasive speciesThreats: N
Ecosystems coverage Habitats of interestConservation areasProtected areasEcosystems goods and servicesFragmentation of habitats
Ecosystem assessmentWatershedsAgricultureForestry
GHGLand use and ILUC
Policies, regulations and programmes related to Biobased Economy
BIOTECHNOLOGY
Europe 2020 Strategy
Life Sciences and Biotechnology: a Strategy for Europe (2002) – Rev in 2007
Knowledge –Based Bio-Economy(KBBE 2005)
ETAP (2004)
Lead Market Initiative (2007) Eval in 2011
Climate and Environment Package (2007)
Strategic Energy Technology Plan (2007)
Renewable Energy Directive (2009)
Common AgriculturalPolicy
Rural Development Policy 2007-2013
REACH
Directives: Soil, Water, Biodiversity
National Plans
Market development
Region/year 2010 2011 2012European Union (27 countries) 100.14 102.80 101.25Germany 107.84 113.85 112.95France 89.74 91.79 89.75Hungary 110.95 115.16 114.55
Manufacturing sector jobs index (2005=100)
Land deals
Source: (Land Matrix, 2013)
Other considerations
• Other Low carbon technologies
• Difference of scale (industrial?)
• Solar and wind other sustainability issues
• Additional resources such as Equator Principles (IFC) for larger projects
• SME should also be supporting sustainability issues (?)
What to consider
PathwayTransport Products End useFeedstock
FuelFodderChemicals ( sub-classification)
Certification final products
skills
World Café information
• Tables 8-10 participants
• 1 Secretary per table
• 4 questions, 10 minutes each
• First, quick poll
• Second, discussion
• Secretaries quick feedback end of session
Questions
1. Does low-carbon energy mean “sustainable”?
2. Should sustainability criteria be applied to all low carbon technologies / products and across all scales?
3. Should sustainability criteria influence global markets to promote low carbon technologies and products?
4. Should the private sector support sustainability criteria and standards or should it be public policy driven?