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SWITCH-Med SCP Policy Toolkit: Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption and Production into Key Economic Sectors in the Mediterranean SWITCH-Med SCP Toolkit SWITCH-Med SCP Toolkit Acknowledgments This toolkit has been produced by the Regional Activity Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP/RAC) of the Mediterranean Action Plan of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP/MAP), within the framework of the SWITCH-Med programme, financed by the European Union. Supervision and coordination Charalambos Hajipakkos (Department of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Cyprus) SCP/RAC Team Jelena Knezevic (Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism, Montenegro) Technical support: Spyros Kouvelis (Senior Expert on Sustainable Development, Greece) Aure Adell and Bettina Schaefer, Ecoinstitut SCCL Yuval Laster (Environmental Policy Division, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Israel) Frank Lauwers (EU and Multilateral Affairs Unit, Environment Protection Directorate, Environment and Planning Authority, Malta) Editing, design and layout Lamia Mansour (GFA Consulting Group, Lebanon) Alison Eades, Archway Communications, Sanda Midzic-Kurtagic (Centre for Environmentally Sustainable Development - Hydro-Engineering Mauricio O'Brien, Federación de Ideas* Institute, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Branka Pivčević Novak (Department for General Environmental Policies Directorate for Environmental Contributors Protection and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Environmental and Nature Protection, Croatia) SCP/RAC would like to thank the following people and organisations for their valuable input in the Anton Pizzuto (Cleaner Technology Centre, Malta) development of this toolkit, either by providing information or reviewing and sharing invaluable feedback on the contents. Marko Prem (Priority Actions Programme/Regional Activity Centre, Croatia) Luc Reuter (Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, United Nations Environment Programme) Hussein Abaza (Centre for Sustainable Development Solutions, Egypt) Alessio Satta (Agenzia regionale Conservatoria delle Coste della Sardegna, Italy) Ali Abo Sena (Egypt National Cleaner Production Centre, Egypt) Burcu Tuncer (SWITCH-Asia Network Facility, Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Lewis Akenji (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan) Production, Germany) Pierre El Khoury (Lebanese Centre for Energy Conservation, Ministry of Energy and Water, Lebanon) Victor Vázquez (Andalusian Institute of Technology, Spain) Peter Fantke (Quantitative Sust. Assessment, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Frans Vespeek (SWITCH-Asia Network Facility, Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Stefanos Fotiou (Regional Office for Asia Pacific, United Nations Environmental Programme) Production, Germany) (POPs Environmental Consulting, Germany) Anne Dominique Furphy (Andalusian Institute of Technology, Seville, Spain) Roland Weber Amel Zouaoui (Centre National des Technologies de Production plus Propre, Algeria) Alessandro Galli (Mediterranean MENA Program, Global Footprint Network, Switzerland) Blanka Grahovac Guberina (Department for General Environmental Policies, Ministry of Environmental and Nature Protection, Croatia) Photos Georgina Guillén (Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production, Germany) Page 52: Top right - CC by: Siocaw • 2 3 • SWITCH-Med SCP Toolkit SWITCH-Med SCP Toolkit Acronyms and Abbreviations ADENE Portuguese Energy Agency FAO Food and Agriculture Organization NGO Non-governmental organisation UN United Nations APA Portuguese Environment Agency GEF Global Environment Facility NISP National Industrial Symbiosis UNEP United Nations Environment Programme Programme BAT Best available techniques GHG Greenhouse gas OECD Organisation for Economic UNDP United Nations Development BEP Best environmental practices GIS Geographic information system Co-operation and Development Programme BOD Biochemical oxygen demand GIZ German Organisation for Technical Cooperation PACT Protected Area Conservation Trust UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development CAD Canadian dollars Organisation GPP Green public procurement PNNS National Nutrition and Health CEDRO Country Energy Efficiency and Programme (France) USD United States dollar Renewable Energy ICZM Integrated coastal zone management POP Persistent organic pollutant WEEE Waste electrical and electronic CNTPP Centre National des Technologies de IGES Institute for Global Environmental equipment Production plus Propre Strategies RE Resource efficiency WTO World Trade Organisation CO2 Carbon dioxide ILO International Labour Organization RECP Resource efficient and cleaner production 10YFP 10 Year Framework of Programmes CO2e Carbon dioxide equivalent IPEN International POPs Elimination Network RSCN Royal Society for the Conservation of CSR Corporate social responsibility IPP Integrated product policy Nature CSO Civil society organisation ISO International Standardization SCP Sustainable Consumption and Organization DTIE Division of technology, industry and Production economics LCA Life cycle assessment SCP/RAC Sustainable Consumption and EC European Commission LCC Life cycle costing Production Regional Activity Centre EEA European Environment Agency MAP Mediterranean Action Plan for SDS Sustainable development strategy the Barcelona Convention EF Ecological footprint SME Small and medium-size enterprise MENA Middle East and North Africa EMS Environmental management scheme/ SPP Sustainable public procurement system MSC Marine Stewardship Council ENCPC Egypt National Cleaner Production MSSD Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Centre Development EPBD European Directive on Energy NAP National action plan Performance of Buildings NCOA National Commission on Organic EU European Union Agriculture EUR Euros NEEREA National Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Action • 6 7 • SWITCH-Med SCP Toolkit SWITCH-Med SCP Toolkit “The fundamental objective of SCP is to decouple economic growth from Introduction. A framework environmental degradation. Achieving SCP patterns will sustain improvements in economic development and human welfare that we depend on, including for the SCP improvements in health and education. In other words, SCP aims at doing more and toolkit better with less – across the entire life cycle of products, while increasing quality of life for all. ‘More’ delivered in terms of goods and services, with ‘less’ impact in terms of resource use, environmental degradation, waste and pollution.” UNEP 2012: Global Outlook on SCP Policies • 8 9 • SWITCH-Med SCP Toolkit SWITCH-Med SCP Toolkit The Mediterranean Region has seen rapid economic Development Organization (UNIDO), UNEP/MAP1 • SCP National Action Plans demo – to development in recent decades. However, this has -SCP/RAC2 and UNEP-DTIE3. It is made up of three implement demonstration activities in each Why was the toolkit been accompanied by a serious depletion in natural interlinked components: a policy component, a country drawn from the SCP National Action developed? resources and a widespread degradation of the demonstration component, and a networking Plans (NAPs) developed with governments natural environment. Unless a better balance is found component. under the SWITCH-Med policy component. the situation will continue to degrade and economic As mentioned above, one of the SWITCH-Med development will go into reverse. A resource- Programme’s main assignments is under the efficient, green economy must and can be developed. The SWITCH-Med Policy component aims at The SWITCH-Med Networking Facility aims at Policy Component which is mainstreaming SCP Development can be decoupled from environmental strengthening relevant environmental governance supporting the visibility, effectiveness, long-term into key areas for sustainable development in the degradation and ‘sustainable consumption and and policy frameworks. With broad stakeholder sustainability and impact of the components of Mediterranean Region. This component includes: production’ (SCP) provides many of the tools to do participation, it will develop/refine national SCP the SWITCH-Med Programme. The Facility enables so – including those affecting the leverage points of policy action plans in the beneficiary countries and extensive communication, networking, exchange • a Regional Policy Component aiming at policy formulation and enforcement. develop a regional SCP action plan and roadmap of lessons learned and encourages scaling-up of integrating SCP in the regional Mediterranean under the Barcelona Convention4. activities, while minding synergies with the sister policy and governance framework, and programmes, namely Switch-Asia and Switch- particularly in the Barcelona Convention In line with this approach, the SWITCH-Med Africa Green. for the protection of the Mediterranean Programme, financed by the European Union The SWITCH-Med Demonstration component environment, through the development of an (EU), has been designed as a multi-component aims at implementing concrete actions tackling programme to facilitate the shift toward SCP in the the barriers faced by key players responsible for the Southern Mediterranean Region. The programme shift towards SCP patterns. It consists of three sub- Figure 1 is about changing the way goods and services components: are produced and consumed so that human Structure of the SWITCH-Med Programme development, and the satisfaction of human needs, is decoupled