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Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership “Who are we and with whom we work”. Jaakko Henttonen, NDEP Manager EBRD St Petersburg Brussels 15 June 2011. ► Belarus and Russia need more effective municipal wastewater treatment.
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Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership “Who are we and with whom we work” Jaakko Henttonen, NDEP ManagerEBRD St Petersburg Brussels 15 June 2011
►Belarus and Russia need more effective municipal wastewater treatment
40% of Belarus within the Baltic Sea catchment area; 7% of phosphorous load Western Dvina Vitebsk ● ● Poletsk Neman Minsk ● ● Grodno Bug ● Brest
NDEP – who with who • Grants by NDEP Support Fund established by Contributors and Donors; • Loans by International Financing Institutions • Parallel grants by Bilateral partners • Counterpart funding by Public investing institutions, usually Municipal enterprises
Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) – key points • NDEP is recognised as effective model for international cooperation based on co-financing structure by loans, grants and local funds; started 2001;extended until 2017 • NIB, EBRD, NEFCO, EIBare the Implementing Agencies of NDEP projects to provide the inevitable loans for financial packages and to prepare project concepts • NDEP delivers real projects - €117 million committed for 23 non-nuclear projects leveraging €3.5 billion in total investment. • Due to intensive project development new funds are being sought by Assembly recommendation
Common issues for EU Strategy for Baltic Sea Regions and NDEP • NDEP makes a link with non-member countries • Ecological objective: Reduction of nutrient inputs into Baltic Sea from regions outside of EU • Further cooperation with Russia following adoption of the HELCOM National Implementation Plan • Development of co-financed real projects with Belarus • Ensuring adequate funds for priority actions
London 2 December 2011 London • 11 May 2011 London 16 June 2011 St Petersburg
NDEP: Environmental Benefits Once implemented, the current portfolio of NDEP projects will deliver the following pollution reductions to the Baltic and Barents Sea Areain tonnes per annum: • Phosphorous by 2,300 t/a HELCOM targets: Russia - 2,500 t/a, Belarus - 1,740 t/a • Nitrogen by 7,600 t/a HELCOM targets: Russia - 6,970 t/a, Belarus - 29,756 t/a • Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) substance by 34,600 t/a • CO2 emissions by 318,500 t/a To achieve similar nutrient reductions in any of the Nordic countries, the investment costs would be three to five times higher.
NDEP Objectives for 2011 (1) In Russia • For wastewater treatment focus on smaller municipalities following Russian National Implementation Plan for the BSAP • Projects for energy efficiency highly required and emphasized also in Russia/EU context; DH and public buildings as primary client sectors with great savings potentials • Solid waste management lacking investments; recycling, reuse and collection of landfill gases underdeveloped
NDEP – objectives for 2011 (2) In Belarus • Belarus joined NDEP in 2009 with a pledge of EUR 1 million. • The NDEP contributors agreed in Dec 2010 to support projects in Belarus with EUR 6 million grant, credits involved amount to EUR 40 million • HELCOM targets for phosphorous reductions for Belarus: 1,740 t/a. NDEP projects in Vitebsk, Grodno and Brest will result in reductions of 336 t/a for P-total • Baranovich, town of 165,000 population produces 32 tonnes of P-load per year. In comparison, Stockholm Water servicing 1.2 million people produces 16 t/a • A separate envelope for contributions for Belarus will be created within the NDEP Support Fund
Kaliningrad Water and Wastewater Rehabilitation - €110m Equity Loans Grants
Other benefits • Prevention of further deterioration of municipal systems and services and associated adverse environmental and social impacts • Transfer of modern project and investment planning, financing and management skills • Paradigm shift from budgetary funding to self-financing through full cost recovery
For more on NDEP… Please contact: Jaakko Henttonen,NDEP Fund Director EBRD RO, Nevsky Prospekt 25, St Petersburg Tel. +7 812 7035531; Fax: +7 812 703 55 26 Email: henttonj@ebrd.com OR Ewa Manik, Fund Implementation Analyst EBRD, One Exchange Square, London EC2A 2JN Tel. +44 207 338 7196, fax +44 207 338 7486 Email: manike@ebrd.com Or visit: www.ndep.org www.ebrd.com www.nib.int www.nefco.org