Transcript SCP PEP 16

European Food SCP Round Table
Plenary 2011
SCP in the Global Context
Fanny Demassieux
Resource Efficiency Subprogramme Coordinator
Head, Responsible Consumption Unit
United Nations Environment Programme
Two planets needed by 2050
If we all keep/adopt the western patterns of
production & consumption
1900
2002
2050
2100
Why does Sustainable Production AND
Consumption matter?
Impacts will be driven by increase in Affluence, Population.
Technology will struggle to be enough.
IPAT:
year
IMPACT
(How many times)
BAU
2000
(baseline)
Population
(billion)
Affluence
(GDP per capita)
Factor 5
Technology
(Impact/ GDP)
BAU
1.0
1.26 (1)
800 (1)
Factor 5
1
2020
x11
x2.2
1.4 (x1.1)
8,000 (x10)
1
1/5
2050
x25
x5
1.3 (x1)
20,000 (x25)
1
1/5
Projected IPAT for China
Ref: Zhu Dajian, Governance for Sustainability, Tongji University, Shanghai
(Davos, 2011)
BAU in technology: 25 times more impacts
Factor 5 improvement: 5 times more impacts.
The SCP global agenda
 Earth Summit - Agenda 21 (Rio de Janeiro, 1992)
 Call for action to promote patterns of consumption and production that reduce
environmental stress and meet the basic needs of humanity
 World Summit on Sustainable Development - JPOI (Johannesburg, 2002)
 SCP is an overarching objective of and essential requirement for sustainable
development
 Call for the development of a 10 Year Framework of Programme to support SCP
implementation at the regional and national level
 Marrakech process: SCP initiatives/policies have steadily increased in most
regions (2003-2011)
 E.g. development of regional strategies, capacity-building and information
sharing, multi-stakeholder partnerships and project implementation in SCP areas
 CSD18/19 (2010-2011) gap in the Environmental Decision & JPOI
implementation: the CSD19 failed to adopt any decision
 UN Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio+20, 2012: an opportunity
to take stock of progress in advancing SCP
Some key initiatives on SCP
 International Resource Panel, cochaired by UNEP-EC: reports
on Decoupling; Priority Products and Materials, Metal Flows,
Biofuels
 Joint UNEP/UNIDO Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production
Programme: 50 national cleaner production centres and
programmes worldwide
 Sustainable Building and Climate Initiative: international
platform to establish baselines to measure and report
buildings performance, develop tools and strategies, advice
and support to policy-makers.
 OECD Environment Directorate project on the impacts of household consumption on
the environment (energy use, waste, transport, food and water).
 Regional and sub-regional SCP strategies: European Union SCP, African 10YFP, LAC SCP
strategy, Arab Region Strategy, Asia Green Growth Initiative, MERCOSUR SCP action plan,
etc.
 Green Growth initiative - UN ESCAP and Republic of Korea: five main tracks of green tax
and budget reform, sustainable infrastructure, sustainable consumption, green business,
and ecological efficiency indicators
Economic growth can remain at
comparable levels
Green Scenario
2 % GDP (1 300 bn dollars
invested per year in greening
10 key sectors between 2010
and 2050
KEY RESULTS
-
Statu Quo
Current economic
policy and investment
patterns pursued
Projected annual trends – GDP (Modelisation 2% GDP)
… With less impact :
Green Scenario vs Statu Quo
% Difference Green vs BAU2
60
2015
2030
2050
40
16
20
3
2
0
-1
21
14
-1
1
8
KEY RESULTS
-3
-20
-20
-4
-13
-22
-8
-22
-40
-40
-60
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Agriculture is facing a multitude of
challenges
Demand side Challenge
Supply side challenges
 Food security
 Limited availability of
land
 Population growth
 Changing pattern of
demand driven by increased
income
 Water
 Mineral inputs
 Rural labour
 The growing pressure from
 Increasing vulnerability of
bio-fuels.
agriculture to climate
change
 Pre-harvest and postharvest losses.
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UNEP’s SCP Agri-food Programme
Activities based on a supply chain approach
towards sustainability in agriculture and fisheries
UNEP launched the Sustainable Rice Platform last
week – a PPP to scale-up sustainable rice
production.
Why rice?
95% of all rice is produced and consumed in the South
Fragmented supply chain allowing little or no market
incentive
Food Security and Poverty alleviation elements:
200 M rice producers
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Agriculture is producing more than needed
The current level of production can feed 12-14 billion
people @ ~ 2400 KC/person/day
• Why ~ 1
Billion
sleep
hungry?
Poverty amid
Plenty
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Sustainable Food Systems
 Joint Programme with FAO and UNEP
 Main implementation tool is the Agri-food Task Force on SCP
 March 2012: first technical meeting (Rome)
 To re-focus and re-orient more  To create enabling conditions
effectively existing
in developing countries for the
information platforms on
uptake of SCP in food systems
sustainable agriculture and
(Capacity building and Publicagri-food products
Private Partnerships)
 To deliver meaningful and
 To promote resource efficient
reliable communication about
production methods through
agri-food products to create
market-based approaches
markets and incentives to
(sustainable supply chains, PES
foster sustainable consumption
and sustainability standards)
and production patterns
(broad set of principles to
guide sustainability claims)
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Consultation of the FAO/UNEP Sustainable
Food Systems Programme
 Barbados, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, India, Indonesia,
Kazakhstan, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa,
Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
 European Commission, Consumers International, European
Food SCP Roundtable, ICTSD, ISEAL Alliance, IUCN, Sustainable
Agriculture Initiative, South Centre, WBCSD, WWF, FAO,
UNCTAD, UNDESA, UNEP, OECD, UNIDO, International
Fertilizer Association, Action Contre la Faim
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Towards Rio+20
2 main issues on the
negotiations agenda:
International
Framework for
Sustainable
Development (IFSD)
Green Economy
Other issues: Food
security? Energy access
for all?
Towards Sustainable
Development Goals?
Thank you!