Strengthening Green Growth and Green Jobs the Europe 2020 Strategy and the Roadmap to a Resourceefficient Europe Dr Manfred Rosenstock DG Environment European Commission ID: 299251
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Strengthening Green Growth and Green Jobs – the Europe 2020 Strategy and the Roadmap to a Resource-efficient Europe
Dr
Manfred Rosenstock
DG Environment, European Commission
Berlin, 5
th
March 2014
The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European CommissionSlide2
Competition for resources (including raw materials) increases, scarcities => prices rise => impact on European economyChallenges
20th cent.: 12-fold increase of fossil fuel use, material extraction 8-fold
Demand for food, feed and fibre may increase by 70% by 2050
60% of world’s major ecosystems that help produce these, already degraded or used unsustainably
WBCSD: by 2050 need for 4 to 10 fold increase in resource efficiency, significant changes needed by 2020
EU
consumes
16
to
.
of
material p.a.,
of
which
5
to
.
become
waste
Major
increase
in
demand
by
emerging
economies
, e.g. ChinaSlide3
Short term benefits Growth and job creationImproving competitiveness and security of supply Inducing innovationSupporting fiscal consolidation
Longer term opportunities
Economic and Environmental resilience
Improving competitiveness and security of supply
Improved quality of life and human health
Global
stabilit
y
Opportunities
from
resource
efficiency
/
greening
the
economySlide4
Opportunities for growth:EU Share of world eco-industries, 2008
Source
: ESTAT, 2011
Employment
in
, environmental goods and services
industries sector grew
by
20% during 2007-11 in spite of the recession. World market expected to double in size until 2020Slide5
Jobs linked to the Environment4Slide6
A green economy for future competitivenessGreen jobs: All jobs that depend on the environment or are created, substituted or redefined (in terms of skills sets, work methods, profiles greened, etc.) in the transition process towards a greener economyStudy results:Reducing the total material requirement of 17
-24%
can lead to boosting GDP by up to 3.3% and creating 1.4 -2.8 million jobs
Potential gains for businesses of between 3 and 8% of turnover by using resources more efficiently
Implementation of individual energy efficiency measures could lead to 2 million green jobs created or retained by
2020
McKinsey: $ 2.3
trn
global gain in improving resource efficiency in various sectors5Slide7
Europe 2020 Strategy and Resource efficiencyNeed to adapt our economic structures to increasing resource
scarcity
(„
green
growth
“, „
eco-efficient
economy“). Strategic approaches:Europe 2020: Sustainable growth as one priority; Resource efficiency as key element; Flagship Initiative “A resource efficient Europe”: Help decouple economic growth from resource use, support shift towards a low carbon economy (renewable energy sources, transport, energy efficiency); Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe:
Framework
for implementation of EU and MS initiatives for resource
efficiency; Systematic stakeholder involvementSlide8
Transforming the economyPromote sustainable production and consumption
patterns:
e.g. Green Public Procurement
, eco-design of
products
Stimulating
research & innovation
: Horizon 2020, innovation
partnerships.Getting the prices right: Phasing out environmentally harmful subsidies; shift from taxing labour towards environmental taxes, further development of the ETSTurning waste into a resource: stimulating secondary materials markets, improving implementation.Slide9
Opportunities for more efficiency: Recycling of municipal waste, 2011Slide10
Opportunities for more efficiency: Environmental taxes as % of all taxes, 2011Slide11
Safeguarding our natural capitalExamples of recent initiatives:Green Infrastructure: network
of
high-quality
natural
areas
that provide ecosystem services and connectivity. Communication 2013Water Blueprint: integration of resource-efficiency considerations into
water
policy
,
framework
of
measures
and
instruments
.
Review
of
air
quality
policy
: Carry successes in air pollution reduction further, reduce health effects and impacts on soil etc.
10Slide12
Green economy package, 2014Review of targets in the area of
waste
management
and
improvements
in implementationSteps towards a circular economy – eco-design, use of market-based instruments, setting of
targets
and
indicators
Faciliating
the
financing
of
investments
in
resource
efficiency
Recommendations of the
European Resource Efficiency Platform
Further COM initiatives
foreseen
on food and construction waste, follow up to Rio+20, Green Jobs.11Slide13
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/resource_efficiency/ http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/index_de.htm
Thank
you
for
your
attention!