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IS as a tool for Green Growth. The EU perspective. Teresa Domenech , UCL ISR. EU Policy Strategy in IS. Europe 2020 strategy : a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
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IS as a tool for Green Growth The EU perspective Teresa Domenech, UCL ISR
EU Policy Strategy in IS • Europe 2020 strategy: a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth • Priority Area: promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy (focus on energy efficiency) • Flagship initiative Resource Efficient Europe • Roadmap to a resource efficient Europe • Waste in managed as a resource by 2020 • Role of IS in boosting efficient production by promoting reuse of raw materials and process residuals • Raw Materials Initiative • Industrial Policy Communication Update • Markets for waste recycling • Move towards a closed-loop economy (European standards for graded qualities of recycled materials • 7th EAP • DG ENT Green Entrepreneurship
Stakeholder Advisory Groups • European Resource Efficiency Platform (EREP) • Membership • Recommendations to improve resource efficiency in Europe (short term and long term policy actions) • European Innovation partnership on raw materials
EREP recommendation in IS “The EU and Member States should foster industrial symbiosis by promoting a pan-European network of industrial symbiosis initiatives, under which facilitators could be connected to allow match-making, including across borders and beyond the EU. The potential for creating new, or scaling up existing, networks should be exploited and a platform for knowledge exchange established. This would help companies to source inputs and to get value from their residues”.
EU regulation- Encouraging or hindering IS? • WFD • review of targets • End-of-waste criteria • Extended Producer Responsibility schemes
Thanks for your attention! Contact: t.domenech@ucl.ac.uk