A joint organisation !of UNEP & SETAC"

UNEP Capacity Building Approach for Mainstreaming LC Thinking worldwide"

Sonia Valdivia, Cássia Maria Lie Ugaya and Sanjeevan Bajaj!

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"Oct. 4, 2013."

UNEP Capacity Building Approach for Mainstreaming LC Thinking worldwide"

OUTLINE"

Context""Approach""First results""Outlook""Final remarks"

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A joint organisation !of UNEP & SETAC"

Phase 3 strategy elements structure"

Building the SCIENCE"

Building the DEMAND"

Building the CAPACITY"

Objective 1: "Enhance the global

consensus and relevance of existing

and emerging life cycle methodologies and data management"

Objective 2: "Expand capability worldwide to apply and to improve life cycle approaches;

making them operational for organisations"

Objective 3: "Communicate current life cycle knowledge

and be the global voice of the Life Cycle community to influence

and partner with stakeholders"

Vision: !A world where life cycle approaches are mainstreamed" ""

Mission: "Enable the global use of credible life cycle knowledge for product sustainability."

Overarching objective: "To facilitate the generation and uptake of science-based life cycle approaches and

information for products by government, business and civil society practice worldwide as a basis for sustainable consumption and production "

Strategy"

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CONTEXT"

•# Growth globalization •# LCA used for more sustainable P&C •# LCM has been identified as a valuable approach in

businesses and governments •# Life cycle data is essential to improve the quality of

the results, nevertheless there are gaps along the supply chains

•# Trading partners are not able to apply LCA"4" UNEP Capacity Building Approach for Mainstreaming LC Thinking worldwide"

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CONTEXT: LC INITIATIVE EMAIL LIST"

•# Limiting factor in developing countries and emerging economies: •# lack of capability on LCM approaches and LCA

data"

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CONTEXT"

CONTEXT"

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a.# Global capability development"

a. Communication strategy b. LC Platform: clearing house and social media"

4. Capability Development & implementation"

a.# Product sustainability information meta guidance

b.# Knowledge mining"

a.# Global database management network & training"

a.# Integrating LCC, S-LCA, E-LCA and linking with CSR

b.# Key environmental LCIA indicators based on mature environmental approaches

c.# LCA in organizations"

1. Methodologies"

3. Product sustainability information"

5. Communication & stakeholder outreach"

All projects in bold are flagship ones"

2. Data"

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STEPWISE APPROACH"

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CAPACITY BUILDING APPROACH"

•# Project Integrating resource efficiency in international supply chains - enabling companies and consumers to benefit from information on life cycle environmental performance of products choices

•# 3-year •# Implemented by UNEP •# Objective: to promote methods for the quantification of

life-cycle environmental impacts and a management system to use LC tools to develop principles for communication on product sustainability in a consistent way."

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CAPACITY BUILDING"

a.# Capacity building for application of LCA tools aiming at environmental performance evaluation of products and companies.

b.# Capacity building for the development of life-cycle data related to their main export commodities and products.

c.# Pilot cases on LCA in business and governments in three countries.

d.# Identification, consensus building and dissemination of internationally recognized principles, methods and best practices for communication of life-cycle environmental performance of products to business partners and consumers.

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TARGET GROUP"

i)# standard-setters to participate in international negotiations and standard setting processes for a given region to adjust the system to local differences,

ii)# governments at different levels to create the relevant enabling policy framework,

iii)#business and industry to implement such tools in their company practices;

iv)#academics and other training institutions to continue building capacity (beyond the project s implementation period)

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FIRST RESULTS"

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•# Train the trainers Environmental footprinting , 2012

•# 33 participants from 15 countries •# Network of LC approaches (CF&WF) Class

2012 : aim to facilitate the replication and dissemination of training activities in the target countries identified."

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FIRST RESULTS"

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•# First group companies from Thailand, China and India expressed interest in implementing LCM pilot projects

•# Awareness raising materials: •# data •# database management •# LCM

•# Full training materials: •# LCA •# CF and WF •# Ecolabelling are available"

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OUTLOOK FOR 2013 AND 2014"

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•# Implementation of pilot projects on LCM •# Replication of training activities on CF and WF in

the target countries and additional ones such as Argentina and Nigeria.

•# More training materials"

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FINAL REMARKS"

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•# UNEP and SETAC Life Cycle Initiative •# Contribute to one of the objectives of the 3rd

Phase, that is, mainstreaming Life Cycle Approaches around the world

•# Contributes to Rio+20 Voluntary Commitment •# Contribute to the mission: to enable the global

use of credible life cycle knowledge for more sustainable societies"

A joint organisation !of UNEP & SETAC"

A joint organisation !of UNEP & SETAC"

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