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6th European Forum on Eco-Innovation Berlin, 2 April, 2009

The 6th European Forum on Eco-Innovation focuses on promoting eco-innovation and the adoption of environmental technologies. This includes all forms of innovation that reduce environmental impacts and optimize resource use. The forum discusses the benefits of investing in environmental technologies and highlights the contribution of eco-industries to growth and job creation. It also emphasizes the importance of improving market conditions and supporting eco-technologies globally. The role of research in assessing and scaling up eco-innovations is highlighted, along with the need for technology platforms and a European economic recovery plan that supports innovation in manufacturing.

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6th European Forum on Eco-Innovation Berlin, 2 April, 2009

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  1. 6th European Forum on Eco-InnovationBerlin, 2 April, 2009 The role of Research on Environmental Technologies and Eco-Innovation

  2. TheEnvironmental Technologies Action Planpromoting eco-innovation and the market take-up of environmental technologies. Eco-innovation: all forms of innovation reducing environmental impacts and/or optimising the use of resources. Environmental technologies: all technologies whose use is less environmentally harmful than relevant alternatives. ETAP, eco-innovation and environmental technologies

  3. All industry becomes “green”! eco-innovation, environmental technologies across all sectors Need fundamental transformations – not just “add ons” Make use of ecological principles: life-cycle, diversity, symbiosis, bio-compatible… Vision for Tomorrow

  4. Why to invest inEnvironmental Technologies RTD • Benefit for People • Benefit to the Planet • Benefit for the Business Sustainability Pillars

  5. Eco-industries contribute to growth and jobs 2.1% of EU GDP, 3.5 million jobs In a more extended definition of eco-industries, these statistics can be more than doubled growth over 20% for wind and solar energy growth above average and exports for water, waste technologies Clean Technologies attract more attention and funding 10% of Venture Capital funding in Europe (€2 billion) €1 billion for Climate Change Financing Facility Global opportunities

  6. Focus R&D programmes Technology platforms Networks of testing centres Priority actions in ETAP and Research contribution Getting from Research to Markets Improving Market Conditions • Performance targets for key products • Financial instruments to share the risks • Review of state-aids, harmful subsidies • Green Public Procurement • Awareness-raising, targeted training ETAP Acting Globally • Supporting Eco-technologies in developing countries and promoting responsible foreign investment

  7. Verification and testing • Independent validation of performance is key to increase confidence • Networking centres for the testing and validation of technologies • 4 RTD Projects in FP6 and 1 Coordination Action in FP7

  8. Contribution of the 6th and 7thFramework Programmes to ETAP related actions • About 1.4 billion € under FP6 for environmental technologies after ETAP • In whole FP7, approximately 10 billion € on R&D funding for environmental technologies • About 44% of FP7's budget directly related to sustainable development • 37% of topics support R&D funding for green technologies in the first three FP7 Work Programmes

  9. From Eco-Innovation to Innovation:assuring that green is really green The potential environmental impacts of an innovation should be already assessed when the research is still on-going (eco-design). This require the implementation of specific evaluation criteria based on Life Cycle Thinking. Before an innovation is scaled-up from pilot to demonstration scale, an assessment based on Life Cycle Assessment should be carried out in order to verify if the innovation is an eco-innovation.

  10. Technology Platforms • Bring together researchers, industry, financial institutions, decision makers • Build a long-term vision on research needs and future market development • More than 30 platforms: Hydrogen and fuel cells, Photovoltaic, Water supply and sanitation, Steel, Chemistry, Construction…

  11. AEuropean economic recovery plan • Adopted by the EC on 26 Nov 2008 and endorsed by the EU Council on 11-12 Dec 2008 “To support innovation in manufacturing, in particular in the construction industry and the automobile sector, which have recently seen demand plummet as a result of the crisis and which also face significant challenges in the transition to the green economy…” • …three Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are proposed: - European green cars initiative - European energy efficient buildings initiative - Factories of the future initiative

  12. PPPs Total resources: 2010-2013* *The EC budget comes from the FP7 Cooperation Specific Programme Themes NMP (Industrial Technologies), Energy, Environment, Information and Communication Technologies, Transport.

  13. Conclusions • We need to lead a new industrial revolution • We need this revolution to be “really” sustainable • We need to do it now, we need to do it together

  14. Thank you for your attention Manuela SOARES DG Research – Directorate Environment Director

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