Transcript Green and Sustainable Innovation in the Chemical Industry: A

Sustainable Chemistry
Work at OECD –
Results and
Perspectives
Peter Börkey
Environment Directorate
Green and Sustainable Chemistry
8 June 2012, Venice
Overview
• What is the OECD?
• Some recent results on Green Chemistry
Innovation
– Trends from Patent Data
– Survey of chemists
• OECD work on Green Chemistry
– Sustainable chemistry platform
– Substitution of harmful chemicals
• The Green Growth Knowledge Platform
The OECD
• 30 member countries (5 accession countries, 5
enhance engagement countries)
• Economics-based, multi-sectoral
• Forum to share experiences and derive policy lessons,
source of comparative data
• Council approves Programme of Work and Budget for
a 2-year period
• Committees and Working Parties supervise policy
analysis work
• Secretariat: 2000+ staff, based in Paris
• OECD Chemicals Programme: e.g. Good Laboratory
Practices (MAD), Test Guidelines Programme
Green chemistry is the
design of chemical
products and processes
that reduce or eliminate
the use and generation
of hazardous
substances.
• Work carried-out in 2010
• Measures the output of innovation
• EPO World Patent Statistical (PATSTAT) database, using
search algorithms based on a selection of International
Patent Classification (IPC) codes
• propensity to patent both product and process
innovations is higher in the chemical industry than in
other sectors
• Focus was on the following technologies:
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Biochemical Fuel Cells
Biodegradable packaging
Aqueous solvents
Selected White Biotech
TCF Bleaching Technologies
Green plastics
Survey of Chemists
• Collaboration with:
– Department of Government, London School of
Economics
– Center for Green Chemistry and Green
Engineering, Yale University
• Internet opinion poll: via SurveyMonkey
– Yale Center Contacts
– Green Chemistry International Chapters
– Other Professional & Industrial Organizations
Demographics
• 146 Respondents: Individuals (not firms)
• Respondents reported their own location
in 24 different areas
• Firms with HQ in 22 different areas
– OECD: 124 (80 in US)
– Outside of OECD: 21
• Market (primary):
– Domestic: 64%
– Export: 46%
Conclusions
• Sustained innovation in many areas of SC
• White Biotech is area with most patent
applications
• Chemists in industry view
green/sustainable chemistry as a growing,
profitable area in the future
• Regulatory requirements and product
standards are most important policy
factors driving SC innovation
Current Market
Regulatory Context
Perceived Regulatory Fragmentation Among Main Markets
Policy Impacts
Perceived Importance of Specific Policy Measures to the Development of
Green/Sustainable Chemistry
Other OECD Work on Green
Chemistry
• Sustainable Chemistry Platform
http://www.oecd.org/env_sustainableche
mistry_platform/
• Support information exchange and
identification of projects that would
benefit from international cooperation
Berlin Conference
• 6-7 October 2011
• Organised by German Federal
Environment Agency, with UNIDO, GIZ
and OECD
• 100 experts from 14 countries
• Focus on:
– Supply chain issues
– Chemicals policies and management
– Sustainable chemistry in SMEs and
developing countries
Key recommendations for OECD
• Decision support tools
– They have a crucial role to play in supporting
substitution
– A large number of tools has been developed and is
available
– Recommendations:
• Create an inventory of decision support tools
• Develop a toolbox
• Data
– Issue with access and availability
– Recommendations:
• Efforts to make existing data more accessible and produce
more of it
OECD Work in 2013-14
• Programme of Work 2013-14: “Tools and
approaches to support decision making for
the substitution of harmful chemicals”
– Set-up of an Ad Hoc Group (2012)
– Inventory of tools and scoping of issues
(2012)
– Workshop to take stock and discuss follow-up
(early 2013)
– Feasibility report on toolbox (2014)
– Inventory of data sources (2014)
 Mission:
 enhance and expand efforts to identify and address major
knowledge gaps in green growth theory and practice
 help countries design and implement green growth policy
THANK YOU!
• Contact: [email protected]
• Web: www.oecd.org/ehs
Additional slides
Acknowledgements Survey
• OECD Environmental
Directorate:
– Nick Johnstone
– Peter Börkey
• Yale Center for Green
Chemistry and Green
Engineering
– Erin McBurney & Janice
Mitchell
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Zheng Cui
Suojiang Zhang
RK Sharma
Jorge G. Ibáñez
Mihkel Koel
Marc Vermeulen
Mary Anne Beaudette
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Biochemical fuelcells
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Demographics
Demographics
Firm Size
Demographics
Market Potential
Market Potential
Green Growth framework
Enabling conditions
•Balanced tax structures
•R&D and innovation policy
•Competition
•Infrastructure investment
•Openness to trade and FDI
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Water scarcity
Climate change
Health impacts of pollution
Biodiversity loss
Promoting transition
Key policy tools
•Pricing of pollution and resource use
•Subsidy reform
•Regulatory and policy predictability
•Support to basic research and emerging technologies
•Governance of natural assets
Measurement agenda
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Major environmental issues
Productivity of resource use
Physical evolution of the natural asset base
Environmental quality of life
Opportunities arising from environmental considerations
Evolution of policy and social responses
Promoting efforts consistent with international standards
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Skills and labour market adjustment
Distributional and competitiveness concerns
Science and technology cooperation
Development assistance
Management of global public goods