European Territorial Evidence for
EU Cohesion Policy and Programming
GREECO
Territorial Potentials for a Greener Economy
ESPON Open Seminar
Aalborg, Denmark
14 June 2012
The ‘international consensus’ on green economy
Different approaches on the concept
• UNEP emphasises the social dimension alongside the
environmental and economic dimensions.
• The OECD focuses on the economic perspective (green growth)
• The EEA focuses on the economy-environment interface over the
social dimension.
• The EUROSTAT has not a definition as the concept it is not
statistically operative.
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ESPON defines the concept as an “approach to transform
production and consumption processes and patterns”
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Different measuring frameworks
UNEP
OECD
EEA
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GREECO approach on the green economy concept
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What will GREECO do
1.
Characterisation of the degree of development of the green
economy at the regional level within ESPON space.
2.
Detailed analysis of the driving forces, barriers and enabling
conditions behind green growth, paying particular attention
to the territorial factors.
3.
Assessment of regional potentials for green(er) economies,
based on the presence of the abovementioned factors.
4.
Production of regional typologies by overlapping such green
growth potentials (output of point 3) over the present
situation of green economy (output of point 1).
How will GREECO achieve its objectives
2.1
2.1.2. Operationalisation
2.2
2.2.2. Sectorisation
2.2.1. Territorialisation
2.2.3. Regionalisation
2.2.4. Contextualisation
2.3
2.3.1. Typologisation
2.3.2. Implication
2.5 Policy
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2.4 Densification/strengthening
2.1.1. Conceptualisation
GREECO research challenges
Ch 1. Defining the territorial dimension of the green economy:
• How can the green economy be defined from a territorial
perspective?
Ch 2. Data availability
• How can the green economy be characterised in a context of
relative scarcity of indicators at the regional level?
Ch 3. Defining policy alternatives
• What kind of national and EU level enabling conditions are
important for regional and local governments and local
business entrepreneurs and citizen groups in their endeavours
developing Green solutions?
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GREECO case study areas
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GREECO contribution to the Common Strategic Framework
GREECO will produce territorial evidence relevant
for the Common Strategic Framework, providing
inputs to:
– the thematic objectives mentioned in the
Common Strategic Framework, and;
– remarkably, also to the definition of the
Partnership Contracts and programmes.
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GREECO contribution to the Partnership Contracts
Relevant elements mentioned by the Commission to be taken into account in the
design of the PC:
1) An analysis of the Member State’s or region’s development potential and
capacity >>links to >> GREECO will quantify regional potentials for a
greener economy.
2) An assessment of the major challenges to be addressed by the region or
Member State, including the identification of the bottlenecks and missing links,
innovation gaps, the lack of planning and implementation capacity etc. >>links
to >> GREECO will produce regional typologies based on green economy
potentials and current conditions.
3) horizontal coordination; and 4) vertical coordination >>links to >> GREECO
will elaborate a comprehensive policy analysis of green growth policies
5) Partnership Contract and programmes based on appropriate result indicators.
>>links to >> GREECO will produce new synthetic indicators related to the
green economy.
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Example of GREECO contributions (1/2)
New indicators:
CO2 emission intensity
from European
regions. 2008
(kg/€).
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Example of GREECO contributions (2/2)
Territorial potentials
for a greener
economy
Per capita wind
resources (provable
wind at less than
8€c/kWh)
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GREECO contribution to the thematic objectives of the CSF
Ob4. Supporting the shift towards a low-carbon economy
GREECO will produce new indicators and tools for assessing compliance
with the 20/20/20 targets at the regional level.
Ob5. Promoting climate change adaptation
The existence of specific measures and legislation on risk prevention and
management at the regional level will be included in GREECO analysis as
one of the indicators conditioning the enabling conditions for green
growth.
Ob6. Protecting the environment and promoting resource
efficiency
Decoupling is at the core of green economies. GREECO will seek to identify
the most relevant territorial implications linked to resource efficiency and
reflect on recent trends in ‘decoupling from land take’, mainly through
sectoral analyses and case studies. 13
Thank you for your attention
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