1. Action Plan Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sustainable Industrial Policy
Dino Pinelli Bruxelles 9 December 2008

2. DG Enterprise and Industry Unit B1 Sustainable Industrial Policy
Ensure competitiveness aspects in environment, energy and transport policies
Climate and energy policy
Quality of air, water, soil
Waste and transport policies
Develop proactively a sustainable industrial policy
Setting appropriate framework conditions to enable industry to turn environmental challenges into opportunities

3. The Sustainable Industrial Policy
Environmental challenges entail business opportunities
European industry well positioned to seize those opportunities
Policy to set appropriate framework conditions to unleash the green potential of industry

7. Sustainable Industrial Policy: Three main blocks
Better products on the Internal Market: A dynamic life cycle approach to product policy [see previous presentation]
An industrial policy for environmental industries: examining and tackle the barriers that hamper the competitiveness of environmental industries
Contributing to a global low carbon and sustainable economy: supporting the development of sectoral approaches in international negotiation on climate

8. Industrial policy for eco-industries Background
Eco-industries and services have a turnover of around 2.2% of EU GDP and employ 3.4 million people
Growth is predicted to be exponential
Eco-industries are the enablers of change
in providing innovative solutions to meet the environmental objective with net benefits for the economy

9. Industrial policy for eco-industries Principles
Start of sectoral initiatives for eco-industries in line with principles of industrial policy
Exploiting synergies with existing initiatives
Lead Markets, ETAP, SET action plan, initiatives at Member State level
Launching new initiatives if needed
Competitiveness screening of eco-industry to identify and tackle barriers to their competitiveness

10. Industrial policy for eco-industries The study
Content
Literature review, industry facts and data, analysis of framework conditions, eco-industry and its supply chain, strategic outlook and policy suggestions
Competitiveness factors
better regulation, standardisation, internal market, R&D and innovation, international dimension, competition issues

11. Contributing to a global low carbon economy
Industrial sectors starting to develop sectoral approaches and commit to emission or energy-efficiency benchmarks
Good potential for contributing to the post-2012 framework stabilising the emissions from these sectors globally and addressing carbon leakage
Study assessing needs for capacity building in key emerging economies and identifying key elements for SA in the post 2012 UN climate framework

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