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Lead Partner Contact Andalusian Institute of Technology PCT Cartuja 93 - Calle Leonardo da Vinci 2, 41092 Sevilla - Spain Project Coordinator: Ms Anne Furphy E-mail : [email protected] Phone: +34 954 46 80 10 Fax: +34 954 46 04 07
Capitalizing experiences for
MED sustainable future
The ECO-SCP Final Conference in Marseille (France)
Upcoming Events
• March 24 th and 25 th 2015: Joint Capitalization conference for MED Prog ram, Brussels
(Belgium)
ECO-SCP partners will attend the event in Brussels and will disseminate and capitalize the
results and tools and enlarge networking and synergies.
In this Issue
The ECO-SCP final
conference P.1
Policy recommendations: a
path towards a sustainable
future P.2
Promotion of Sustainable
Production Process P.2
edTOOL: a new tool for Eco
design products and services
P.3
The final Issue
After 18 months of intensive
work, the ECO-SCP Program
produced its final results, tools
and event.
All Partners from Spain, Italy,
Croatia, Slovenia, Greece and
France wish you a merry
Christmas and an happy new
year !
The final conference of the ECO-SCP project
was held in Marseille on the 2 nd of December;
AVITEM, the local partner hosted the event.
This meeting organized by the Agency for
Sustainable Cities and Territories in the
Mediterranean (AVITEM) aimed at:
� diffusing the main conclusion of the ECO-
SCP-MED project among a wide
community of businesses, researchers,
experts involved in various fields of public
policies targeting “sustainable
consumptions and production” practices;
� Highlighting innovative and integrated
practices in the field of sustainable
consumption and production.
� Sharing policy recommendations among
experts and policy-makers at local,
regional, national and international levels
for addressing environmental global
challenges;
� Raising interest towards cooperation as a
lever for capitalizing best practices and
mainstreaming them in policies at regional,
national or international levels
Partners presented the results of the project
while stakeholders and external experts
presented some relevant achievements on the
theme of “Sustainable Consumption and
Production in the Mediterranean: territorial
approaches for matching global challenges”.
Ludovic ASSO – CCI Nice Côte d’Azur – France
I S S U E
D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 4
The Final Issue
Eco-SCP-Med The final Issue 2014
Eco-SCP-Med Newsletter Integrating experiences and recommendations in Eco-innovation for Sustainable Production and Consumption
Find us
www.ecoscpmed.eu
Eco-SCP-Med
@Eco-SCP-Med
Eco-SCP-Med
Marseille, France
Claude Holyst, Regional Agency for Environment (ARPE) during the Event
Within ECO -SCP project, the
Province of Bologna
coordinated the efforts of all
partners in outlining a “map”
of the most common policies
for sustainability in
European regions in order to
get some policy
recommendations to be
converted into concrete
policy tools.
As for the theoretical
framework, according to a
recent Schmidt-MacArthur
Fellowship study titled
“Meeting the financing needs
of circular businesses”,
investors who are aware of
circular economy business
models “all agree conceptually
that they can capture some
value from this,” but the “key
barrier so far is risk and lack of
data.” Investors are wary about
getting involved in new
business models when it is
hard to quantify the risks and
returns.
edTOOL: a new tool for Eco design products and services
During the Regional Conference
held in Barcelona on 1st October,
the edTOOL was presented. The
conference, organized by Sostenipra
research group, UAB and with the
collaboration of IAT and the Catalan
Government, was followed a training
session: 4-hour practical training
workshop on edTOOL with local
companies. Similarly, edTOOL has
also been presented in training
sessions and seminars in
Thessaloniki (Greece), Lucena
(Spain), Bilbao (Spain), Nice
(France), Madrid (Spain) and
Barcelona(Spain).
edTOOL is currently available at
http://edtool.sostenipra.cat both in
English and French. The User Guide
(English and French version too)
and the promotional video are also
available from the same webpage.
Xavier Gabarrell – UAB - Spain
20 main policy recommendations focusing both on actors (policy makers and firms), and on actions to be implemented. There are four fields of intervention:
1. Integration and harmonization: it is not a coincidence that the first of these recommendations
stresses the necessity to foster green and circular economy.
2. awareness education and dissemination: knowledge and general awareness of environmental
and sustainability issues is the fertilizer to make production and sustainable consumption
grow
3. networking and competitiveness: networking and improving the cooperation between the
various stakeholders is the key that can open many doors
4. tools: like grants, guarantees, innovative financing systems, eco-design, LCA, environmental
footprint, GPP... are our toolbox.
On the basis of these observations and data, we may conclude that mainstreaming policy tools for
sustainability means to activate virtous circles composed of different tools and different actors. This is
due to the fact that policy refers to several fields of actions and interventions ranging from laws and
legislations, basic principles and guidelines to be adopted by governing bodies to direct and address
actions for achieving long-term goals and suggestions for sustainable territorial growth. That's why
participative models are the best way to enforce the exchange of best practices and know how in the
field of policies for sustainable consumption and production.
Viviana Melchiorre – Province of Bologna – Italy
Policy recommendations: a path towards a sustainable future
Public entities could be
decisive in fostering circular
economy, but not providing
grants or loans, rather than
with guarantees to reduce risks
for investors, or support via
public procurement. These are
just some examples of
profitable policies to foster
SCP and eco-innovation. Let's
move a step back. The first
question we posed starting to
work on the project was: What
is policy? The notion of policy
is very blurry and elusive.
Definitions and taxonomies
range from strict ones with a
strong emphasis on multilevel
government actions and
objectives, and broader ones
relying on the problem that has
been addressed and the way
to approach it.
We consider policy all act and
actions affecting issues of
collective relevance,
implemented by official
authorities’ law officers but
even by simple civil servants;
not only the political debate,
but even the media or the
scientific ones.
The modality of activation
changes depending on the
kind of actors involved. If
institutions at the different
levels are concentrated on the
public health, firms and
citizens are more prone to
individual interests, profits and
personal well-being. The way
to address them to SCP
policies stands on the issues of
incentives, of a wider and
easier implementation of tools
such as GPP, LCA and eco-
design, of the spread of eco-
innovation, and of education
and dissemination.
In the framework of Eco-scp-
med project, on the base of an
integrated analysis carried out
with the contributions of all the
project partners, the Province
of Bologna highlighted a set of
Promotion of Sustainable Production Process results and tools in Nice
17 trainees participated at the ECO-
SCP training on IPPC / IED on the
4th of December. Among all the
actuality of industrial legislation, they
have been following a special course
on IED Directive implementation and
ECO-SCP tools and results.
They received all the relevant
material of ECO-SCP toolkit on IED
and a translation into French of the
Environmental Assessment guide
and report.
Ludovic ASSO – CCI Nice Côte
d’Azur – France
The Regional Event held in Barcelona on 1st October 2014
edTOOL: the French version launched in Nice !!! UAB and Inedit assisted CCI Nice Côte d’Azur for the launch of the French version of the
edTOOLS during a special event on Eco conception in the frame of the Factory Lab of Saint-
Jeannet (at Tradmatik http://www.tradmatik.fr).
Ludovic ASSO – CCI Nice Côte d’Azur – France
Strategic policies
The Trainees attending the training in Nice