
Public Governance for more RE

Existing technological and organisational solutions for more resourceefficiency are not sufficiently implemented (recycling, substitution, savings).Different policy elements can accelerate the development:

Regulation Market-Based Instruments Voluntary Instruments Information

- standards

- prohibitions

- subsidies

- taxes/ fees

- cap and trade

“Voluntary” instruments, such as sectoral agreements refer to the self- organisation of market actors.

- Provision of scientific and technological knowledge

- Funding information

- Labelling

Overcoming different types of barriers for more RE

Using the innovation ability of SME’s

VDI ZRE

The policy toolkit to promote innovation and its implementation


2. VDI ZRE


The main tasks of VDI ZRE are to provide information and to identify standards of best practice into all fields of technical applications. Goals:

Reduction of :

consumption of natural resources

Goals and strategic focus

Increase of:• Value added to the economy• Number of jobs• Qualification of employees• Biodiversity and Health

Main fields of action: Manufacturing Sector and Construction Sector.


The approach of VDI ZRE

… is Information, Cooperation and Activation.

Increasing the

competitiveness of SME by

realising cost-savings

through RE.

VDI ZRE helps to identify

these potentials.


Institutional Context of VDI ZRE

VDI ZRE

■ project cooperation between the German Ministry for the Environment (BMU)

■ and the Association of German Engineers

■ funded in the framework of the National Climate Initiative of BMU.

VDI GmbH

VDI Group

VDI e.V.

VDI Verlag GmbHSpringer-VDI-Verlag GmbH

VDI Zentrum Ressourceneffizienz

GmbH

VDI Wissensforum GmbH

VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH


3. VDI ZRE Tools


Booklet

Information Database

Efficiency

Atlas

Resource Checks

VDI ZRE Information Tools – overview

Database, movies with best practice examples in WebVideomagazine, efficiency atlas, resource checks, innovation radar, systematical and comprehensive visualisation of RE-potentials using industrial process-chains, newsletter

WebVideoMagazine


Process Chains and Resource Checks

Process Chains Resource Checks

• Foundry technology• Plastic processing• Electroplating (also in English)• More are prepared.

• Basic module (also in English)• Metal processing (also in English)• Plastic processing• Electroplating• Foundry technology• Hospital: Facility Management• Hospital: Energetic improvements


WebVideoMagazine

• 14 movies with best practice examples are already online, ranging from SMEs

to RE in hospitals: http://www.ressource-deutschland.tv


Excursion: VDI Guidelines (activity of VDI e.V.)

VDI Guidelines play a very important role as pioneers for international standardization:

Accessible for all market participants, they allow savings by reducing information and control costs as well as costs

for adjustment and trading.

Technical knowledge can spread faster. Standards thereby facilitate contractual arrangements, commercial transactions, and serve to reduce technical trade barriers

VDI Guidelines thus help to relieve government from the duty to implement additional layers of regulations.

Today 1.800 valid VDI Guidelines extensively covering the broad field of technology. Topics range from securing loads on road vehicles to testing of optical fibres up to biomimetics and monitoring of the consequences of

genetically modified organisms.

Bildquelle: illustration-konzept.de


VDI Guidelines on Ressource efficiency

VDI 4597 Rahmenrichtlinie Ressourceneffizienz

VDI ZRE currently contributes to the development of:

VDI 4598 Ressourcen-effizienz in KMU

VDI 4599 Kumulierter Rohstoffaufwand

The development of further guidelines is under consideration.

Long term goal: all RE-related Guidelines become part of a VDI handbook on RE.


VDI Zentrum Ressourceneffizienz GmbHReinhardtstr. 27c 10117 Berlin Telephone: +49 30 27 59 506-0 Fax: +49 30 27 59 506-30Email: [email protected]

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