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UNEP’s Portfolio of Safer and
Responsible Production
Ruth Coutto
Programme Officer, Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch
ICCA informal meeting, 20th October, 2010
UNEP - DTIE
• Promotes the development / implementation of
policies, strategies and practices that are:
– cleaner and safer
– make efficient use of natural resources
– ensure environmentally sound management of
chemicals
– reduce pollution and risks for humans and the
environment
• Establishes partnerships with:
– other international organizations, governmental
authorities, business and industry, and
nongovernmental organizations
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SCP – Sustainable Production and
Consumption Branch
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Divided in 4 units:
– Business and industry
– Integrated resources management
– Goods and services
– Sustainable UN (SUN)
• Business and Industry Unit:
– Resource Efficiency and Cleaner
Production
– Safer and Responsible Production
(including APELL)
– Business and Partnerships
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UNEP Programmes on Safer and
Responsible Production
• APELL Programme
– Awareness and Preparedness for
Emergencies at Local Level
• Responsible Production
– Responsible Production Handbook for
SMEs
• Flexible Framework for Chemical Accident
Prevention and Preparedness
– Aims at providing guidance for
governments wishing to develop, review,
strengthen or improve their chemical
accident prevention and preparedness
programme
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APELL in different sectors
• APELL for Chemical/
Industrial Accidents
• TransAPELL
• APELL for Port Areas
• APELL for Mining
• APELL for Coastal
Tourism Destinations
• APELL for multihazards
Project DOW/UNEP/MEP APELL - China
• Since 2009 – APELL pilot project in Zhangjiagang, in cooperation
with DOW and MEP – DOW contribution US$ 580,000
• UNEP expert seminar on accident prevention and preparedness
and lessons learned from accidents - Beijing, 2-3 March 2009
• APELL training workshops, Zhangjiagang, 20-21 August 2009 and
26-28 April 2010
• Study visit: meeting s with US EPA and site visit to DOW facility Freeport, Texas, 1-4 March 2010
• Multi-stakeholder emergency drill in Zhangjiagang: 10 Sept. 2010
• National dissemination workshop in Beidaihe: 13-14 Sept. 2010
APELL – next steps
• Regional meeting of the Latin American APELL network: 29-30
Nov. 2010 in Buenos Aires Argentina
• Continue to seek partnerships for APELL promotion
• Continue to explore opportunities for cooperation with USEPA,
the Latin American Science & Technology Development
Programme (CYTED), the National Safety Council (India), the
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), Tsinghua University
(Beijing), University of Concepcion (Chile) and University of
Bahia Blanca (Argentina) on APELL projects and promotion
• Find additional financial support for capacity building/training
activities at country level on APELL related topics
– POW 2010-2011
– US$ 2,100,000 – 7 countries (China, India, Philippines,
Thailand, Argentina, Chile and Peru) + APELL 25th
anniversary event in 2011
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What is Responsible Production?
• It is a systematic and continuous improvement approach
aimed at SMEs for :
– Chemical safety along the value-chain;
– Understanding hazards;
– Controlling chemical exposure;
– Reducing accident risks;
– Engaging stakeholders; and
– Promoting chemical product stewardship through risk
communication aimed at preventing exposure and
accidents with hazardous substances along the value
chain.
• Aligned with ICCA Global Product Strategy (GPS)
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Responsible Production products
• Toolkit
• Training Package
• Booklet with case-studies and key
performance indicators
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Responsible Production in UNEP POW
• The promotion and dissemination of Responsible Production is
already enshrined in UNEP’s Programme of Work (POW) for 20102011 and 2012-2013
• Project name: SME partnerships for sound management of harmful
substances and hazardous waste
• Promotion/dissemination approach is based on:
– Partnerships building and awareness raising: working through
existing networks and partnerships with business and industry
associations and establishing new partnerships where needed;
awareness raising workshops
– knowledge sharing among sectors and stakeholders sector
assessments studies; train-the-trainers events ; and provision of
technical support to SMEs through the established partnerships
– Information exchange : establishment of regional and national
information exchange and knowledge sharing platforms, to
enhance the role of regional and national partnerships in raising
awareness of SMEs on the risks posed by hazardous chemicals
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Next Steps
• We will be promoting the approach in 2010-11 in other locations in
Asia (China, India, Vietnam, Philippines), Latin America (Brazil and
Mexico), and Africa (South Africa and Egypt)
• We have all materials translated in Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese,
French, Spanish, Arabic and Portuguese
• Agreements for implementation are being discussed (Brazil,
Vietnam, and the Philippines)
• Web resources can be found at: www.unep.fr/scp/sp
• China – develop a knowledge sharing platform – with the NCPC –
will ICCA like to identify who can join on the side of the Chemical
Industry sector?
• Egypt – working with the NCPC (BIPRO and GTZ)
• India (Gujarat) – new partnership project with the Asia Society for
Social Improvement & Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST)
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Flexible Framework
Chemical Accident Prevention and
Preparedness
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At the end of 2007 UNEP-DTIE established
a new initiative to promote the
development of a Flexible Framework for
addressing Chemical Accidents prevention
and preparedness.
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UNEP established an Expert Working
Group (EWG) to develop supporting
material
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In 2008 and 2009 UNEP through the EWG
developed a draft guidance that was
further piloted in Cambodia and
Philippines
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In 2010 UNEP published the Guidance for
Governments as an IOMC document
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Expert Working Group
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UNEP
ILO
UNECE
UNIDO
WHO
UNITAR
UNEP/OCHA – JEU
EC (DG Environment)
EC - JRC – MAHB
OECD WGCA
US-EPA
Swedish Civil
Contingencies Agency
• CYTED
• ADPC
• Experts
• Countries (Thailand/The
Netherlands)
• ICCA
Expert Working Group met 5 times
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November 2007
February 2008
June 2008
March 2009
October 2009 (established a subgroup to develop the ISP)
1. April 2010 (only the sub-group)
October 2010 (back-to-back with the
sub-group)
Guidance Document
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It describes the steps that are
needed before developing and
implementing laws, regulations,
policies, guidance or other
instruments which would make
up an effective chemical
accidents programme
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It sets out the possible
elements of such instruments
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It provides resource materials
related to how these elements
may be implemented, based on
international initiatives and the
experience of countries that
have had chemical accident
programmes in place for a
number of years.
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Guidance structure
– Chapter A – Introduction
– Chapter B – How to develop/improve a Chemical
Accident Prevention and Preparedness (CAPP)
programme
– Chapter – Elements of a CAPP programme (Goal, Why,
How, Examples)
– Supplemental Guidance (Safety Management Systems,
Risk Assessment, Emergency Planning, Health Aspects,
Pipelines and Accident Investigations)
– Annexes
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Definition of terms
Acronyms
List of Chemicals of Concern
International Initiatives
Selected Bibliography
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Publications
Legal Instruments
Accident Reports and case studies
Organisations and websites
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Phase approach for implementation
Elements of a chemical accident prevention and preparedness programme
1. Scope
• Information related to the definition of types of industries,
facilities, and/or substances covered by a chemical accident
prevention and preparedness programme is provided.
Role of Competent Authorities (Government – Environmental Ministry, Agency of Department)
2. Information management
3. Inspections
• Under the “Role of Competent Authorities”, information is
provided in relation to activities generally carried out by
identified government bodies.
4. Off-site Preparedness Planning
5. Siting and Land-Use Planning
Requirements of Industry
6. General duty Clause
7. Notification
8. Prevention Policy
• Under the “Requirements of Industry”, types of requirements
generally imposed on industry or undertaken by industry to
meet a general obligation to operate their installations safely
are specified.
9. Hazard Identification and Risk
Assess.
10. Safety Reports
11. Preparedness Planning
Information to the Public
12. Information to the Public
• This section describes the types of information that should be
provided to those potentially affected in an accident.
Accident Reporting, Investigation and Follow-up
13. Accident Reporting
• This section provides information on accident reporting and
investigations for lessons learned
Guidance Document - flexibility
• The overall Guidance has been designed to be flexible
to ensure that:
– the Guidance can be applied in different national contexts
worldwide;
– countries can focus on elements relevant to their particular
context and adapt them as required; and
– countries can decide how to define actions, depending on
priorities, resources and experience.
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Flexible Framework Initiative
• Meetings of the Expert Working Group
• Develop supporting material
– Guidance for Governments
– Implementation Support Package
• Country Projects
– Cambodia and Philippines (2008-2009)
• pilots
– Mali and Senegal (2010-2011)
Status of the initiative
• Guidance document is published and is being translated into
Chinese, Spanish and French
• Developing of an Implementation Support Package
• Two countries have already implemented the guidance (with
emphasis on the assessment phase) – Cambodia and
Philippines and will engage on a second phase
• Two countries have been granted QSP funds for
implementation – Mali and Senegal and will start
implementation in 2010 – launching workshops planned for
November 2010
• Sri Lanka and Tanzania are applying for QSP funds (October
2010 – final decision)
• China and possibly Thailand/Indonesia/Vietnam will be the
next countries – pending funding
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Status of the initiative
• Continue to support country projects Cambodia and
Philippines, Sri Lanka, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania and
possibly China, Indonesia/Thailand)
• Organize a regional workshop in Latin America
(Argentina/Chile) for promotion of the approach (back to
back with an APELL regional meeting) – December
2010
• Organize a regional event in China (end of 2011) for
promotion of the approach (back to back with the
Regional Responsible Production/launching platform
event)
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Who is already contributing?
 European Commission through the Major Accident Hazards Bureau of the
Joint Research Center
• Providing experts (free of cost) to participate in workshops and
training session (with travelling covered)
• Participating in the development of training material
 French Ministry of Environment
• Providing experts to workshops and training sessions (free of cost
and with travelling covered)
• Financing
• Cooperation through INERIS
• Translation into French of key documents
 US-EPA
• Providing support for the Flexible Framework Guidance layout and
design
• Participating in the development of training material
• Supporting the development of the Implementation Support Package
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Who is already contributing
 Independent Experts (drawn from the OECD WGCA)
 Norway
• Financing (2008-9 and 2010-11)
 CYTED
• Translating the draft Guidance in Spanish
 ICCA (chemical industry)
• Discussion on possibility of providing experts (free of cost) to
participate in workshops and training sessions
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Needs and entry points for cooperation
• This initiative needs support.
– UNEP initiatives need funding from donor nations
– UNEP is also looking for technical partners
– UNEP is looking for trainers for country activities
• Possible areas of cooperation which ICCA could consider
for its cooperation with UNEP:
– Supporting training and industrial demonstration activities
through provision of trainers and financing for participants from
developing countries
– Joining UNEP in the implementation of country projects on
Responsible Production through its membership engagement in
the project countries
– Actively participating in the Expert Working Group for Flexible
Framework
– Developing regional and/or country projects that could be
implemented jointly with UNEP.
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Ruth Coutto
Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
15, rue de Milan, 75441 Paris Cedex 09, France
Tel : +33 (0) 1 4437 1634
Fax : +33 (0) 1 4437 1474
E-mail : [email protected]
Web: www.unep.fr