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Taking the Next Steps : Facilitating MEA Implementation with Cleaner Production

Taking the Next Steps : Facilitating MEA Implementation with Cleaner Production. Status and Potential for Future Activities. Session Overview. Why is CP needed for MEA implementation? Current status Future vision Bridging the gaps

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Taking the Next Steps : Facilitating MEA Implementation with Cleaner Production

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  1. Taking the Next Steps: Facilitating MEA Implementationwith Cleaner Production Status and Potential for Future Activities

  2. Session Overview • Why is CP needed for MEA implementation? • Current status • Future vision • Bridging the gaps • Priorities for MEA implementation and where NCPC activities overlap - What are the Opportunities? • Determining specific NCPC priorities

  3. CP for MEA implementation - Why? • “fragmentation, duplication and overlap,” “compliance rates are at best patchy” • (Geo 3. UNEP, 2002) • “apparent conflict” between conventions • (Kuijpers, Lambert. UNEP Technology and Economic Assessment Panel under Montreal Protocol and IPCC author, 2000)

  4. Marrying CP with MEAs - key benefits • Issue linkage • Ground for synergies • Efficient use of financial resources • Positive incentives for compliance • Flexibility

  5. Where are we now? Current status • CP experiences and expertise are readily available but widespread awareness about CP is lacking • Links starting between MEA implementation and CP related bodies, tools, methodologies - but more needed • Implementation focus on regulation, end-of-pipe

  6. What should it be? • Vision: • CP is widely used in MEA implementation strategy • Multi-stakeholder partnerships including MEA/CP bodies • Effective implementation of MEAs through prevention leads to sustainable development

  7. What gaps need to be bridged? • Catalytic actors and activities needed • Awareness of CP by MEA-related bodies • Awareness of MEAs by CP-related bodies • More joint efforts/coordination

  8. Building on the commonalities: CP vs. MEAs • Goal is sustainable development (i.e. triple bottom line benefits) • Deal with current and future environmental issues • Coordinated approach yields maximum benefits (i.e. synergistic effects) • MEAs can lead to greater CP implementation and vice-versa

  9. Does this require a major change? • Do NCPCs need: • to develop different expertise? • to change their work profile? • additional resources? No...

  10. Next step? • Difference is the scope and stakeholders • NCPCs require: • additional expertise focussed on MEAs • enlarge the package of services offered • enlarge the stakeholder base • increased coordination and cooperation with national MEA implementation bodies

  11. CP Centres/ MEA Implementation: Cross-cutting Activities MEA Implementation Activities Awareness raising Information exchange Commitment/partnership building Demonstration projects Education & Training Technical assistance Policy advice/development CP Centre Activities

  12. Awareness raising • Bringing CP to national MEA implementation bodies • Bringing MEAs to CP practitioners • Bringing both CP & MEAs to all stakeholders (e.g. relevant government ministries, industry, etc.)

  13. Information exchange • Information dissemination • Information centers • Experience exchange / dialogue facilitation

  14. Commitment/Partnership building • Securing the commitment to using CP • Securing commitment to implementing MEAs • Building strategic partnerships for coordination and cooperation in implementation • Building on stakeholder trust

  15. Demonstration projects • Design and implementation • Selecting partners • Disseminating the results

  16. Education and Training • Developing/modifying training packages/programmes • Delivering training in cooperation with MEA bodies

  17. Technical assistance • Technical assistance projects • Adapting or developing sector-specific guidelines • Facilitating technical assistance

  18. Policy Advice • Involving stakeholders • National Implementation Plans • Compilation of baseline data • Indicators • Developing standards/targets and identifying alternatives • Policy assessment, development and modification

  19. Kyoto Opportunities - recent agreements • Agreement on comprehensive framework for capacity-building in developing countries • Agreement on concrete mechanisms for the transfer of technology to developing countries • Agreement on the establishment of three new funds for the developing countries

  20. Determining priorities • What are the country’s obligations under the various MEAs? • What are the priority sectors/waste streams? • Where are the Centre’s strengths - what has already been done? • What are the Centre’s needs to move forward? • How can your needs be met?

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