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Eco Industrial Development in GTZ’s Portfolio International Conference on Eco Industrial Parks Katrin Gothmann Hyderabad, India 6 July 2009. Content. GTZ-Profile Our Work on Eco Industrial Parks Some General Lessons Learnt. About us.
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Eco Industrial Development in GTZ’s PortfolioInternational Conference on Eco Industrial ParksKatrinGothmannHyderabad, India 6 July 2009 Partner and Facilitator for Eco-Industrial Park Development
Content • GTZ-Profile • Our Work on Eco Industrial Parks • Some General Lessons Learnt Partner and Facilitator for Eco-Industrial Park Development
Aboutus As an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federally owned Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH supports the German Government in implementing its development policy objectives. We promote complex reforms and change processes in developing and transition countries. Our corporate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on a sustainable basis. We work on behalf of the German Federal Government and other public and private sector, and national and international clients.
GTZ'sconceptandcorecompetence Sustainable development Guideline for employees in all business sectors Achieve an economic, social and environmental balance in reaching development goals Use a holistic, process and value-oriented approach when empowering people, organisations and society Core competence in all business sectorsand areas of expertise Capacity development
Priorityareas Combating structural poverty Education and youth Energy, transport, infrastructure management Development-oriented emergency and transitional aid Health and social protection Governance Rural development and management of natural resources Sustainable economic development Environment, climate, biodiversity Water Every partner, every task, every contract and every solution is unique. In order to ensure its competences are optimally combined, GTZ has defined the following priority themes, in which knowledge and experience are provided across the organisational landscape:
GTZ worldwide 13.000 staff 92 countries EUR 1.2 billion turnover (2008) Partner and Facilitator for Eco-Industrial Park Development
Environment, ResourceEfficiency, WasteManagement • support for strategies for sustainable development: • patterns of consumption and production, decoupling • policy advice: • economic incentives, eco-tax, admin. law, environmental impact assessment • resource-efficiency and sustainable economic management: • Industrial environmental protection, profitable environmental management, eco-efficiency, sustainable eco-industrial parks, cycle economy • urban environmental management: • local protection, ecological urban renewal, sustainable building, land recycling • management of solid waste and brownfields: • waste politics, local and industrial waste economy, recycling, special wastes • international conventions: • substitution of ozone destroying substances (Montreal), export ban for hazardous wastes (Basel), carbon mitigation in industry and solid waste management Partner and Facilitator for Eco-Industrial Park Development
Polluting production processes No use of existing synergy potentials between the companies Insufficient laws & regulations Challenges in Industrial Parks Rare cooperation with SMEs No integration into regional structures Partner and Facilitator for Eco-Industrial Park Development
Benefitsof Integrated Eco-Industrial Estates Investment safety National/ International Competitiveness High investments per unit area Efficient estate management Good relations with communities Clean and effective production processes Marketability of the site Compliance with national and international standards Partner and Facilitator for Eco-Industrial Park Development
Services of GTZ for Eco-Industrial Park Development Our services are always tailor-made to suit the needs of our partners. Common elements are the: • development of methods for participatory planning of new industrial sites and the transformation of existing industrial parks • development of national and regional strategies to promote eco-industrial parks and network • development of instruments to promote eco-industrial processes • qualifying of decision-makers in innovation management • training of local specialists (facilitators) • cooperation with important international actors. Partner and Facilitator for Eco-Industrial Park Development
Eco-Industrial Park Projects China Tunisia India Philippines Thailand Indonesia Partner and Facilitator for Eco-Industrial Park Development
Lessons learnt and challenges for cleaner production and eco efficency: • Rising prices for oil, food and commodities favour the engagement in ressource- and eco efficiency • Cleaner production arises not automatically - Support from the state or the city is essential for its success • A multi-level approach and flexibility (mix of instruments) is needed • Economic incentives facilitate the striving for results • Relevant concepts are: public private partnerships, prevention, polluter pays principle, producer responsibility • Environmental and economic policies should be well-connected • Material and energy flows should be sustainable in the economic cycle • Start to walk the road to a low-carbon economy Partner and Facilitator for Eco-Industrial Park Development
Katrin Gothmann GTZ, Environment and Climate Change E-mail: Katrin.Gothmann.@gtz.de Fon: +49 6196 79 6278 Fax: +49 6196 79 80 6278 Partner and Facilitator for Eco-Industrial Park Development