Nordic Approaches and Tools in Green Planning

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Nordic Approaches and Tools in Green
Planning
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• Inge Aarhus
• Petrozovodsk
• June 14th 2012

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Green Planning Tools and Strategies
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• Tools (an overview mainstream tools)
• Green Procurement
• Green Certification Schemes
• Green Branding
• CO2 Calculators
• Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
• Environmental Reporting Systems
• Green Taxes in Norway
• Legislation

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Green Procurement
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Agency for Public Management and eGovernment
(Difi)

• Difi works to ensure that government
  administration in Norway is characterised by
  values of
• Excellence
• Efficiency
• User-orientation
• Transparency, and
• Democracy

• Tasks include
• Developing a good national information policy
• Supporting the development of leaders, employees
  and management of
• human resources within the public sector
• Setting up solid public procurement procedures
• Encouraging coordinated and cost-efficient use
  of ICT within the public sector
• Making public information and services more
  accessible for citizens and
• public agencies

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Green Procurement

• Top management is always responsible for
  procurement of products and services.
• Top management is responsible for establishing
  goal and strategies for procurement.
• Procurement should integrate environmental (and
  social) requirements to avoid negative
• Procurement also contain a risk for corruption.
  Responsibility for high ethical standards lays on
  the specific company
• The Norwegian government emphasises use of
  electronic tool for procurement procedures
• The State sector in Norway is supposed to receive
  electronic invoices as from 2011, e-invoices
  gives considerable return

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Green Procurement

• Examples on Criteria

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Green Management andCertification Schemes
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• Examples on Schemes
• EcoLighthouse
• Greenways Environmental Certificates
• ISO 14000
• BS 8555
• EMAS
• BREAM
• ISO 26000

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Eco-Lighthouse
The businesses
Municipalities Follow up, Information
Consultants
The administration Development - administration
advice courses
Everybody must contribute!
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Growth
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Nordic Environment Network Organization for
harmonizing, and coordination between invited
less formal EMS Initiatives

• Less formal EMS A first step towards more
  formal systemsOthers
• ISO 14001
• EMAS

Cities, regions or local municipalities City of
Copenhagen City of Vejle City of Göteborg City of
StockholmCity of Oslo City of Helsinki And
others
Public and private EMS users
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Environmental management
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• ISO 14001 and BS855 is for environmental
• management. This means what the organizations
• Do to
• minimize harmful effects on the environment
  caused by its activities,
• to conform to applicable regulatory requirements,
  and to
• achieve continual improvement of its
  environmental performance.

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Generic standards (more on ISO)
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• ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 are generic
• standards. Generic means that the same
• standards can be applied
• to any organization, large or small, whatever its
  product or service,
• in any sector of activity, and
• whether it is a business enterprise, a public
  administration, or a government department.

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Processes, not products (more on ISO)
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• Both ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 concern the
• way an organization goes about its work.
• They are not product standards.
• They are not service standards.
• They are process standards.
• They can be used by both product manufacturers
  and service providers.

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The ISO Survey (more on ISO)
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Green Branding
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• The Nordic Swan
• The EU Flower
• Blaue Engel

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The Nordic Swan
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Nordic Ecolabel is the official Ecolabel of the
Nordic countries and was established in 1989 by
the Nordic Council of Ministers. The purpose of
the Ecolabel is to contribute to sustainable
consumption and production, and our vision is a
sustainable society.
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Green Branding
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• The Nordic Swan
• The EU Flower
• Blaue Engel

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The EU-Ecolabel
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• The EU-Ecolabel is a voluntary scheme, which
  means that
• producers, importers and retailers can choose to
  apply for the label for
• their products.
• The life cycle of a product begins with
• extraction the mining or cultivation of the raw
  materials, such as cotton (for textiles) or wood
  (for paper products), it continues with
• manufacturing and packaging
• distribution
• Use, and finally
• end of life stage, when the product is disposed
  of or recycled.
• When developing EU Ecolabel criteria for
  products, the focus is on the stages where the
  product has the highest environmental impact, and
  this differs from product to product.

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The Blue Angel
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• The Blue Angel is the first and most well-known
• eco-label worldwide.
• Since 1978 it has set the standard for
  eco-friendly products and services selected by an
  independent jury in line with defined criteria.
• The Blue Angel is awarded to companies as kind of
  a reward for their commitment to environmental
  protection.
• Companies use it to professionally promote their
  eco-friendly products in the market.
• The Blue Angel is an ecological beacon showing
  the consumer the way to the ecologically superior
  product and promotes environmentally conscious
  consumption.

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CO2 Calculators
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• CO2 Focus (presentation by Sigmund Haugsjå)
• PEPF (Presentation by Ewa Figorska)

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Environmental Management Systems
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• ISO 14000
• BS 8555

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Internationally Recognised Environmental
Reporting Systems
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• Global Reporting Initiative
• ISO 14000
• EMAS
• BS 8555

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Environmental Reporting Systems
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• Global Reporting Initiative

• The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is most
  prevalent standards for sustainability reporting
  also known as ecological footprint. GRI seeks
  to make sustainability reporting by all
  organizations as routine, and comparable to
  financial reporting.
• A sustainability report is an organizational
  report that gives information about
• Economic
• Environmental
• Social, and
• Governance performance.
• More than 3,000 organizations from 60 countries
  use the Guidelines to produce their
  sustainability reports. GRI Guidelines apply to
  corporate businesses, public agencies and smaller
  enterprises, NGOs, industry groups and others.

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Green Taxes in Norway
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• CO2 tax
• Taxes on Waste
• SO2 Tax
• Tax on diesel buses
• No tax on
• Windmills
• Bio energy,
• Heat pumps

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Environmental Standards and Legislation
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• An environmental standard is a policy guideline
  that regulates the effect of human activity upon
  the environment
• International Standards
• EU Environmental standards

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Tangible results
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• Catalogues on
• Environmental tools (The environmental toolbox)
• What else?