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Green Growth and Innovation
Andrea Beltramello Policy Analyst Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry Structural Policy Division
Nordic Innovation Forum Seminar on Green Growth and Welfare Reykjavik, 24 May 2012
The need for green 2050 World GDP (2010, PPP) USD 305 trillion
2030 USD 164 trillion
2010 USD 77 trillion
Population: +2.2 billion
Source: OECD (2012), Environmental Outlook to 2050
2020 USD 115 trillion
Energy: +80%
GHG emissions: +50%
Biodiversity: -10%
Water demand: +55%
Risks in not going green: bottlenecks
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And also: • Pressures on natural capital • Biodiversity loss • Water scarcity • Systemic risks (e.g. climate change) • Pollution and human health
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OECD’s Green Growth framework
• Balanced tax structures • R&D and innovation policy • Competition • Infrastructure investment • Openness to trade and FDI
Enabling conditions
• Pricing of pollution and resource use • Subsidy reform • Regulatory and policy predictability • Support to basic research and emerging
technologies • Governance of natural assets
Key policies
• Water scarcity • Climate change • Health impacts of pollution • Biodiversity loss
Major environmental challenges
• Skills and labour market adjustment • Distributional and competitiveness concerns • Science and technology cooperation • Development assistance • Management of global public goods
Promoting the transition
• 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
Measurement
Source: OECD (2011), Towards Green Growth
Challenges are so big that we can’t afford expensive solutions – we are up against time and inertia so need
(lots of) innovation
Green innovation is much more than technological change…
… and involves also new business models
7 Green Business Models in the Nordic region, www.fora.dk
Functional sales - generic model for all green business models
ESCO – Energy Saving Companies
CMS – Chemical Management Systems
DBFO - Design, Build, Finance and Operate
Sharing
What is Driving Green Innovation? • Detailed analysis at the OECD on: renewable energy,
electric/hybrid vehicles, ‘clean’ coal, air and water pollution abatement
• Relative prices, policy measures (e.g. standards) and public R&D drive green innovation – but differs depending upon a number of factors (i.e. maturity of technology)
• General innovative capacity and market conditions are often the most important determinants – “a rising tide lifts all boats”
• While environmental policy stringency matters, policy stability and flexibility are also key – give investors incentives for ‘search’ over planning horizon
Source: www.oecd.org/environment/innovation
Responses to different policy instruments
The histogram shows empirical estimates of elasticities, evaluated at sample means, and normalized in terms of the effect of “public R&D spending” (R&D=1.0). Bars shown without fill represent estimates that are not statistically significant at the 5% level. Source: OECD (2011), Invention and Transfer of Environmental Technologies .
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Relative impacts of policy on patent activity
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R&D impact normalised to 1 Standard is US Zero Emission Vehicle standards
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Clear policy signals help
Source: OECD (2011), The Invention and Transfer of Environmental Technologies
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Getting prices “right” is important …
• Swedish NOx tax Patents increased; emission intensities declined; Marginal Abatement Costs fell
• Swiss VOC tax Firms were quite innovative and found many solutions involving changes in organisational and production practices that did not result in patenting of technologies
• UK Climate Change Levy Firms that agreed to a voluntary emission-reduction agreement received a 80% reduction on carbon tax = > innovated less
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Graph based on: Hoglund-Isaksson (2005) cited in OECD (2011), Taxation, Innovation and the Environment; based on observations from 55 plants in the energy sectors over the period 1992-1996
… but is not sufficient…
• Sometimes difficult to target environmental ‘bad’ directly and excessive administrative costs
• Range of other market failures – e.g. knowledge externalities that limit private investment in innovation, but also information failures, split incentives, network externalities
• ‘Credibility’ of policy-induced price signals over the longer term may not be sufficient for risky investments: scaling up can be highly capital intensive and risky
• Inertia in the market can favour incumbent firms, technologies and systems
• Evidence thus far suggests that better pricing mainly induces incremental innovation.
... in particular in overcoming inertia Lifespan of capital investments
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Source: OECD (2012), Green Growth Studies: Energy; World Bank.
Public spending on energy and environmental R&D has not kept pace with the challenge…
Source: OECD, R&D statistics and IEA database.
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… but green innovation draws on a broad range of research
Implications for research policy
• Need greater investment in relevant research, which can involve reorienting R&D spending
• Mission-oriented research (e.g. Apollo project) probably less important – commercial application is key.
• Research should increasingly be multi- and interdisciplinary – breakthroughs emerge from competition & cooperation.
• The effectiveness of funding depends on strong and effective interactions between science and industry
Tailoring policy to technology maturity
Source: IEA (2010)
Implications for support policies
• Since technology-neutral pricing of externality is not ‘sufficient’ = > necessity to be ‘prescriptive’ (at least to some extent) => main challenge for policy makers
• Some general principles:
– Support a ‘portfolio’ of technologies to diversify risk of getting it “wrong”
– Benefits of chosen portfolio should be robust with respect to information uncertainty (i.e. consider ancillary benefits)
– Identify “local general purpose technologies’ which complement a variety of emission-reducing strategies, e.g. battery technologies, instead of very specific applications
Demand-side policies play a role
• In fostering markets, in particular in areas where price measures (e.g. carbon taxes) are ineffective or insufficient.
• Involves:
– Public procurement
– “Smart” regulation and performance standards
– Technology standards
– Specific pricing measures, e.g. French bonus-malus scheme
• These policies should also emphasize performance and competition, rather than supporting specific technologies.
Public procurement
• Significant potential for fostering eco-innovations
• Design is crucial, e.g.UK Forward Commitment Process: advanced information to market on future needs; early engagement with potential suppliers; incentives of a forward commitment
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Performance-based regulations and standards
• Provide flexibility and stimulate firms to try out new ideas, technologies, business practices
• E.g. design of Top Runner Programme: target setting for average-fleet performance; continuous review of targets and performance testing methods; wide consultations with industry and other stakeholders
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Technology-based standards
• Deployment of eco-innovations in the presence of information asymmetries and uncertainty
• Government as facilitator and co-ordinator of industry efforts
• Examples of governments acting as facilitators: standardisation of the smart grid in the United States; standardisation of fuel-efficient tyres in Japan
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Pricing: the French bonus-malus scheme
• “Carrot and stick” approach applied for personal vehicles according to CO2 emissions
• Possibility to make fiscally neutral
• Clear shifts in purchasing behaviour
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Policy is not always cost-effective: the case of car scrapping
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Germany “Umweltprämie”
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Source: OECD/ITF (2011)
Managing distributional impacts Job reallocation will increase ~ 1pc point more inter-sectoral job
reallocation by 2030 (10pc points 1995-2005)
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Source: OECD (2012), The job potential of a shift towards a low-carbon economy
Adjustment may not be as widespread as you’d think
“Brown jobs” are easier to identify, but also account for only a small share of total employment in OECD countries
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Source: EU-LFS, GTAP database, EU-KLEMS database
The welfare implications of CCM policies Cost of GHG mitigation: GDP and GDP+
(Impact in 2050 of a 50% cut compared to 2005)
Source: de Serrres and Murtin (2011), A Welfare Analysis of Climate Change Mitigation Policies.
The policy mix for green innovation
• No silver bullet, range of policies needed
• Stable long-term policy signals, better pricing.
• Supply and demand: Strengthening incentives and markets, and development of new alternatives
• Competition between technologies is key; and,
• Guard against lock-in – support broad range of options, including general-purpose technologies such as ICT.
Source: OECD (2011), OECD Green Growth Studies: Fostering Innovation for Green Growth.
Policy Challenges
• Providing policy predictability in conditions of imperfect and changing information
• Providing a mix of incentives that induce solutions from ‘close-to-market’ up to ‘breakthrough’
• Directing technological change onto a green trajectory without being “unduly” prescriptive
• Building international cooperative solutions for environmental problems which stretch widely across space and time
Forthcoming green innovation work
• Driving eco-innovation: the role of demand-side policies
• Business models for systemic eco-innovations
• Market development for green cars
From the OECD Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship:
Thank you!
For further information:
www.oecd.org/greengrowth
www.oecd.org/sti/innovation/green