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Peter Mandelson MP Mark Ballard “green alliance... issue summer 035 “the UK's experience “how to assess the “the wider positive of producer potential risks and planning agenda responsibility has benefits of new needs to be prioritised been driven by technology ... will alongside the new European Legislation” be preoccupying ... planning guidance the progressive for renewables” TRACK governance summit” INSIDE 3 4 6 TO BOLDLY GO Peter Mandelson MP Mark Ballard MSP TRACK INSIDE The quarterly magazine of Green Alliance Edited by Sarah Flood Designed by Carruthers and Hobbs comment Printed by Seacourt Press Ltd July 2003 Green Alliance All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Green Alliance. Within the UK, exceptions are allowed Rebecca Willis in respect of any fair dealing for the purposes of private research or study, or criticism or review, Director as permitted under the Copyright, Design and Patent Act, 1988, or in the case of reprographic It is commonplace for environmental organisations like ours to call for bold reproduction in accordance with the terms of the licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. policies, leadership and political bravery. But we rarely explain why we think bold is best. This is the theme of this edition of Inside Track. It’s not just an excuse to quote Star Trek - we wanted to look at what change could Green Alliance receives funding from the Esmée happen if you decide, in the immortal words of Captain Kirk, “to boldy Fairbairn Foundation and Defra's Environmental go where no man has gone before”. Action Fund. The congestion charge was certainly a bold move. It’s hard to think back, now, to January this year when all were prophesying chaos, disaster and rebellion on the streets of London. Now, Ken is basking in the knowledge that his policy has reduced traffic levels within the zone by 16 per cent - figures that must make the DfT green with envy (if not actually green). It’s not just that things happen faster if we go for more radical solutions. It’s also that bold policies promote step-change solutions, like new technologies, or new ways of doing things. Small, incremental policies mean that people instead make small, incremental changes – end-of-pipe solutions, not system innovation. Incremental policy may actually reduce the chances of reaching our end-goal, if they keep us wedded to the status quo. So, in this edition, we look at what else we could do if we boldly go. contents Peter Mandelson, patron of the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy, offers us a vision of a bold energy future – and points out that comment 2 much needs to be done to turn White Paper aspirations into reality. green alliance news Mark Ballard, a green member of the Scottish Parliament, criticises the return to sender 3 Scottish Executive for their timidity – and paints a picture of how Scotland from biotech to nanotech 4 could lead the way. And opposite, Ben Shaw talks about one possible a green bill of health 4 bold step forward for waste policy – making producers responsible for spending to save the environment 5 the environmental impacts of their products. energy entrepreneurs 6 must try harder 7 In a bold move closer to home, Green Alliance is, this year, hosting a grass roots to green shoots 7 web-based photography competition, in association with the London the Energy White Paper - Photographic Agency. We hope that the theme of ‘grass roots to green a step change in policy delivery? shoots’ will inspire people not to search for solutions in outer space, but Peter Mandelson MP 8 take inspiration from the environment around them. A lesson for Captain more green power for Scotland Kirk, perhaps? Mark Ballard MSP 10 members’ news 12 The views of contributors are not necessarily those of Green Alliance. • What are the objectives that should be set for new producer return to responsibility initiatives? • What are the lessons to be learnt from existing types of schemes in Europe and how do these affect different actors in the production sender and consumption chain? • What products or materials are suitable for new initiatives and producer responsibility how should they be complemented by other policy measures? that works A scoping seminar was held at the end of March to discuss these issues and a background paper was produced Recent developments in UK waste has been driven by European legislation that outlined existing producer policy have focused on getting to grips with directives on packaging, end of responsibility schemes in Sweden, with household waste. However, the life vehicles and waste electrical and the Netherlands, Switzerland and need to also develop a better set of electronic equipment (WEEE). These Flanders. The write up of the seminar polices to deal with business and have got progressively more ambitious and background paper are available industrial waste is acknowledged. with the recent WEEE directive being from Green Alliance’s website. For example, the Strategy Unit report the most rigorous implementation of The write up summarises the ‘Waste Not, Want Not’ highlighted the producer responsibility concept. presentations and discussion that the need to achieve waste reduction covered the principles and objectives through the policy tools such as Yet Europe doesn’t have to be the only of producer responsibility, the role producer responsibility. Green Alliance driver of new producer responsibility and relationships between consumers has been looking at the role that initiatives. Member states can develop and producers and practical issues producer responsibility could play in their own schemes that tackle a whole of implementation. Green Alliance delivering more ambitious waste and range of products and materials. will be taking forward this work by resource policy objectives. This was one of the findings of Green revisiting these issues in more detail Alliance’s Creative Policy Packages for with the objective of developing Producer responsibility is a simple Waste project. Sweden, for example, a set of guidelines for the design and enough concept – if you make a has used producer responsibility as the implementation of future producer product you should be responsible for basis of its municipal waste recycling responsibility initiatives. the impacts it has during its life. It is strategy. The Netherlands, Switzerland normally associated with the idea of and Flanders in Belgium also have For more information on this work producers being made to take back schemes in place. The UK government please contact Ben Shaw their products at the end of their life for is moving slowly towards adoption [email protected] recycling, repair or disposal. However, of more ambitious objectives on To download the Creative Policy the concept also extends to reducing waste and resource policy with, for Packages for Waste report go to the impacts of products throughout example, its current work to produce www.green-alliance.org.uk/Programme_ their lifecycle. This is important as for a sustainable consumption and CreativePolicyPackagesWaste.htm some products the in-life impacts will production strategy and in its response far exceed the production or disposal to the Strategy Unit’s waste report. impacts and vice versa. Implementing these objectives will require more radical application of a While the concept may be simple, range of existing policy tools including turning it into practice is more producer responsibility. problematic. For example, the packaging directive has been hailed by Green Alliance’s work on producer one commentator as “the most heavily responsibility has been looking at lobbied dossier in the history of the how this might be done. Some of the European institutions”. To date, except questions we have been addressing are: for a few voluntary schemes, the UK’s experience of producer responsibility “3 from biotech to nanotech? a progressive agenda for science and technology Green Alliance’s director “Humanity, get down on your knees!” serious concerns about the new So screamed the billboards for Michael technology, sparking a fresh wave Rebecca Willis, author of a Crichton’s latest novel Prey. Crichton, of media interest. paper on technology, risk who did much to popularise concerns about biotechnology in Jurassic Park, Nanotechnology should not be seen in and environment for the has now turned his attention to a new isolation. It is just the latest of a series Progressive Governance generation of technologies. In Prey, of technologies that have caused he describes an experiment at the controversy – think nuclear power, Summit in July, asks frontiers of nanoscience, which goes GM crops and mobile phone masts. whether nanotech will be badly wrong, causing clouds of self- The problem is that we can’t ignore replicating nanobots to swarm out of the potential benefits of this sort of the new GM – and how control. And to Crichton, this is not just innovation. Nanotechnology is based governments should harmless science fiction – in interviews, on the ability to measure, manipulate he stresses his genuine concerns about and organise material on the nanoscale be handling it the risks of nanotechnology. He is not – 1 to 100 billionths of a metre, alone. NGOs are beginning to wake up sparking a radically new approach to the challenge – and in May, the to engineering and materials science. Prince of Wales was reported to have Potential breakthroughs include a green bill of health: a new agenda for health and environment policy Health is a key political issue, and life agenda to the next stage, exploring thinkers, community project leaders there are some potentially strong the role of environmental protection and public health experts. connections to the environmental in public health promotion. The project debate.
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