Indicators for a

Resource Efficient Europe

Barbara Bacigalupi DG Environment

European Commission

Circular economy and resource efficiency indicators

Workshop focusing on sustainable production and waste as a resource

Stockholm, 27 January 2016

Contents

• General context

• Policy background in the EU

• EU resource efficiency scoreboard

• Concrete examples of RE indicators

Environment

The general context

Source: Global Footprint network

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/world_footprint/http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/world_footprint/http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/world_footprint/http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/world_footprint/

Resource efficiency: general context

Resource efficiency: Doing more with less

= Producing more value while living, producing and consuming within the physical and biological limits of the planet

Environment

The policy framework and toolbox

raw materials: metals, minerals-fuels-biomass

ecosystems–biodiversity

– water –land and soils –

air – marine resources

Resource efficiency: policy background

7th Environment Action Programme

Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

Resource efficiency flagship initiative

Roadmap to a resource efficient Europe

Europe 2020 mid-term review (& annex)

European Semester

Progress report on the roadmap RE

New Commission's priorities

Towards a circular economy for Europe

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

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7EAP: Nine priority objectives

Roadmap to a resource efficient Europe

• Three time lines

• long term 2050 vision

• milestones for 2020

• actions to be taken now

• Three action lines

• Shifting to a green, circular economy

• Safeguarding natural capital

• Tackling key sectors: food, buildings, mobility

• A shared responsibility of the EU and MS level

• Governance and monitoring under Europe 2020

Related

indicators

Today's policy context - A New Commission: A new Agenda for Jobs, Growth, Fairness

and Democratic Change

"Ensuring the sustainability of our environment, the preservation of our natural resources […] are key policy objectives. […]

Protecting the environment and maintaining our competitiveness can go hand-in-hand, and environment policy also plays a key

role in creating jobs and stimulating investment"

From a Linear Economy…

DISPOSE MAKE TAKE NATURAL RESOURCES

WASTE WASTE WASTE

… to a Circular Economy

The Circular Economy Package

• Adopted by the Commission on 2nd December 2015

Action Plan Communication

List of Follow-up Initiatives (Annex)

Legislative proposal on waste

In line with the Commission’s priorities

Protecting the environment and boosting competitiveness go hand-in-hand: both are about building a sustainable future

Energy Union and

Climate

Jobs, Growth

and Investment

Democratic Change, Better

Regulation

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Objectives of the new Package

• Take concrete and ambitious actions, e.g.

– long-term vision and targets on waste management

– internal market rules for products

– environment and consumers protection

• Overcome obstacles stemming from European legislation or inadequate enforcement

• Strengthen the single market to support the Circular Economy

• Ensure favourable conditions for innovation and investment

5 Main Areas of Action

Production

Consumption

Waste Management

Secondary raw materials

Innovation, Investment

& Monitoring

Plastics Food waste Critical Raw Materials

Construction &

Demolition

Biomass & bio-based products

5 Priority Sectors

• Preamble & Declaration

• 17 Sustainable Development Goals

• 169 targets

• Means of Implementation

• Follow up and Review

The next frontier… 2030 Agenda

Sustainable Development Goals

1 universal agenda, 17 goals

Environment

Resource Efficiency Information & Indicators

Why science matters for env policy

Science is the first driver of env policy (CO2, ozone, mercury)

Env processes & interactions are

highly complex & need to be understood

Sound evidence required in IA and to back our claims

& actions

To ensure effectiveness &

implementability of legislation

The judicial system requires evidence

To monitor progress towards meeting policy objectives

Level of Information and its impact

From policies to indicators

"You cannot manage

what you cannot measure"

Selection of Resource Efficiency indicators

EU Resource Efficiency Scoreboard

EU Resource efficiency scoreboard

Eurostat Eurobase http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/europe-2020-

indicators/resource-efficient-europe

2014 full report http://ec.europa.eu/environment/resource_efficiency/

documents/re_scoreboard_2014.pdf

2014 Highlights: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/resource_efficiency/

documents/re_scoreboard.pdf

EU Resource efficiency scoreboard

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Resource productivity

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2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Resource productivity DMC GDP

Resource productivity

Water exploitation index 2011 or latest available

Environmental taxes (%) 2002 and 2012

Eco-innovation

Green jobs In addition to the scoreboard

•EU production & consumption

Drivers

•Emission data from statistics sources or modeled

Pressure •Current state of the environment

State

•Life cycle impact assessment for 14 categories

Impact

•Responses: policy or technological / behavioural

Response

Possible indicators in a DPSIR perspective

Environmental

Impact Indicator

Environmental

Pressure Index

Aggregation??

Thank you for your attention!

Resource Efficiency @ EC:

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/resource_efficiency/

Barbara.Bacigalupi@ec.europa.eu

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