Regional Schemes for Ressource Efficiency in SMEs in the … Elgorriaga... · 1.500 ton/y materials saved 80 industries involved. 9 SUPPORTING RE IN SMEs DRIVERS ISO 14001 approval

Ander Elgorriaga Kunze

Ihobe, Basque Environmental Agency

22.th of May 2018EREK Workshop - Prague

Regional Schemes for

Ressource Efficiency in SMEs in the Basque Country:

Learnings and Recommendations

after 25 years experience

2 SUPPORTING RE IN SMEs

FACTS ARE THAT EREK CORE MEMBERS:

• Promote RE since 20 years

• Supported >13.000 SMEs in last 10 years

• Yearly Budget > 95 million €

• Developed > 300 RE tools

• Have >190 RE experts

But, do not forget…

• Have their Governments

strong commitment

• Win-win thinking

EREK: the RE frontrunners platform


A Resource Efficiency

“regional laboratory”

• 2 million inhabitants

• 150 km long

• 33 Michelin *** restaurants

• 24% of GDP, industry

• Full fiscal autonomy

BASQUE COUNTRY


25 years supporting SMEs

5-10 Ihobes experts team

15 million public € invested

60 RE tools developped, leader in

spanish language

Ihobe´s RE support in SMEs:

wiser by experience


Ihobe´s RE support pathway in 9 stages

Basque

Ecodesign

Center

Sectorial Cleaner

Production Programme RE and Environment

Management

Programme

Near “0”

activity

First Ecodesign ProgrammeIPPC

Agreements

Ecoefficiency

Programme

Local envir.

problems

RESOURCE

EFFCIENCY

ECO-Innovation

Programme

1.9933

2.0183


Continous adaptation as response!

Ihobes Yearly RE

Budget (Million €/y)

2

1

1,5

0,5

Ihobes RE Technical

Staff (persons)

10

5

Year 1993 Year 2018


STAGE nº 1: Solutions to industry caused

LOCAL environmental problems (93-97)

DRIVERS

Drinking water supply

problems in several

counties

Water industry polluted

LEARNINGS

Excellent diagnosis

Basic no technological

improvements done

Near zero RE

RESULTS 0,5 million m3/y of

wastewaters minimized

5.000 ton/y of dangerous

wastes minmized

80 industries involved


STAGE nº 2: Cleaner PRODUCTION

Sectorial Solutions Programme (97-01)

DRIVERS

Comply to new legislations in 150

Electroplaters, 70 foundries and

15 fish-canning companies

German ABAG (EFA-NRW like)

show high RE potentials

LEARNINGS Uptake of high technical

proposals only if good

corporate management

Difficult to scale-up

RESULTS 0,2 million m3/y wastewater

reduced 50.000 ton/y wastes recycled

1.500 ton/y materials saved

80 industries involved


DRIVERS ISO 14001 approval

Excellent results of Duch

Cleaner Production

Programme and UK

Envirowise (now WRAP)

LEARNINGS High Budget needed

After 2-3 years, RE results

decreases

Ihobe don´t focuses on

value

RESULTS 200 ISO 14001 companies

200 RE certified companies

750 RE Action Plan in SMEs

AIDA Integral SME Services

Catalogue

STAGE nº 3: Improving Resource

Efficiency MANAGEMENT (99-07)


Moving massively SMEs to RE:

the AIDA Approach (99-07)

20% in Action Services

25% more coached or

trained (Demand)

20% more Informed

BUT cost intensive!!

4.500 SMEs as RE target


DRIVERS

New IPPC EU legislation

Only 300 companies

Integrate RE in new licences

from beginning

LEARNINGS

Expectations not fulfilled

RE requirements when strong

new legislation is complicated

High expert resources needed

RESULTS 70% of companies in

agreements

0,9 Million ton/y wastes recycled

1,8 Million m3/y wastewater and

52.000 ton/y materials saved

20.500 ton/ y CHG and 50.500

ton/y emmissions reduced

STAGE nº 4: IPPC sectorial

Voluntary Agreements (03-07)

IPPC industries:

• 50% of material

consumption

• 80% of wastes and

emissions


DRIVERS First international SME

competitors doing Ecodesign.

EU launched Integrated

Product Policy

Succesful basque ecodesign

project

LEARNINGS

Expertise needed

Integral in Factory team needed

Ecodesign don´t increases

sales in medium term

RESULTS 1,0 million ton/y of CHG

saved in LCA (estimation)

30 companies ecodesign

10 new skilled engineers

per year

STAGE nº 5: First Ecodesign

Programme (04-08)


DRIVERS

Environmental Management

is already established

Lack of new SME demands

on RE

LEARNINGS Public role on Management

and Technology Support is

not asked

Green Marlket not

understand in SMEs

RESULTS

4.000 SMEs phone calls/

year

5 technical events/year

STAGE nº 6: Near “0” activity (08-11)


CRISIS 2010: resillience…

Changes of frame conditions

20% of SMEs closed

Global markets as

survival priority

Low environmental

commitment

First Ihobes answer fails

Ihobe:€ cuts 70%

SMEs: “NO Resource Efficiency savings if NO SALES”


It´s not time for preaching!

Preaching resource efficiency in SMEs, a

loose of time

Going in hand with company market

drivers is a cost-effective response


DRIVERS

Change in Government requires

new “policy flags”

RE should help SMEs to be more

competitive in prices during

Crisis

LEARNINGS

CRISIS: SMEs are surviving!

“Soft” support to SMEs is only

policy-sexy, not really demand

SMEs expectations failed

Concentrate on few SMEs

RESULTS 700 SMEs RE agreemments

1.190 RE actions taken

106.000 ton/y saved material

255 SMEs in RE action projects

and 466 in RE capacity building

STAGE nº 7: ECO-Efficiency Programme

(10-14)


DRIVERS

CRISIS: SMEs main driver is

the customer

Multinationals will grow if Life

Cycle Thinking integrated

PROVISIONAL

LEARNINGS Longterm investment “makes it

work”

Multinationals don´t know about

Green Supply Chain Management

Need highly expert Staff in Ihobe

RESULTS

9 Basque Multinationals commited

with Life Cycle Thinking (really)

LCA improvements led to new

contracts

19 RE Projects involving suppliers

STAGE nº 8: Basque Ecodesign Center“Green Supply Chain Management” (>11)


STAGE nº 9: (Eco) Innovation Plan (>15)

DRIVERS

New basque RTD plan 2020

Whole Government involved

Efficiency: transfer

frontrunners results

PROVISIONAL

LEARNINGS

Linking RE to RTD policies

ensures €€€

“Valley of death” even with high

TRL projects

RESULTS 70 industry RE proyects with

200 SME launched, 50%

finished, 30 new Green business

Cost-efectiveness of public

budget is 21 €/€

160.000 ton/y to be saved


LEARNINGS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS


Questions you should think about…

When a RE Programme should be (re)-launched …

1. Why should it be launched with public support?

2. What is the real objective and focus?

3. What are SME internal and external Drivers?

4. Who exactly is to be adressed in industry?

5. What resources (persons, €) will we have?

6. What services to be delivered to SMEs?

7. How to do it cost-effectively?

8. Is there capacity to collaborate with

demand creating policy instruments

(legal, standards, fiscality,…)?


Analize your SME drivers!!

EXTERNAL DRIVERS

LEGISLATION- Production: IPPC,…

- Product: ErP Ecodesign,..

CUSTOMER DEMAND- Public: Green Public GPP

- Private: Supply Chain GSCM

ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT- Taxes: Landfill, wastes

- Fiscal benefits

- Subsidies

- RE Vouchers

MARKET &

COMPETITORS- Market tendencies

- Competitor anlaysis

MARKET TRUST- Standards: ISO, EPD,…

COSTS- Materials (61% of total)

- Products & services

MANAGEMENT- ISO 14001 or similar

- Strategic Plan

- Skills & expertise

- SME corporate commitment

TECHNOLOGY- Investments cycles

- Best Available Techniques

NEW MARKETS- Innovative products & services

- Internationalization

ACCESS TO FINANCE

INTERNAL DRIVERS

1


… not forgetting to segment your SMEs!

Select sectors and

specific companies that

will help you most to

achieve objectives.

Take again Pareto

(80/20) as reference

Talk an SME language

(not in UEs nor policies)!

and

“do not bite off more than you can chew”


Listen to SMEs Needs!

You have to understand SMEs in different value chains

Listen to them but…

Frequently SMEs don´t know tendencies and drivers


2

EREK joins the best experiences EU wide in RE Programmes!

Remember that:

Most is invented!

Select potential strategic partners and benchmark them

Ensure a win-win equilibria

Our experience on

Benchmarking is:

3x faster work

4x cheaper work

Adapt it to your reality

Do Benchmarking!


3 Elaborate a winner Strategy!

Our experience is:

It facilitates trust in

companies and

Government

Facilitates to focus

on success

BUT

Don´t spent to much

time

Be flexible


Select the right clear messages for

SMEs

Ecodesign in B2B

Environmental Product

Declarations in B2B

Near Net Shape- Metal

Process Regulation and control

BATs in foundries

+electroplating

Remanufacturing and

advanced industrial

repair

Circular plastic, rubber

and composites

Minimizing alloy losses

“Messages for SMEs are NOT similar to them for Government/Society” … in our case…


Low hanging fruits…

Need to have first “sexy”results in 2-3 years…

Create confidence in your SME

frontrunners. Write your Case

Studies and support them with

expert vouchers (win-win)

Select some existing Tools /

documents to be translated and

adapted for free (EREK) and

transfer them to SMEs

Use new ISO 14001:2015 is a good

excuse to seed Life Cycle Thinking

in SMEs


… with longterm Life Cycle

Thinking in business strategies

Life Cycle Thinking is a

longterm strategy

Difficult knowledge and no

benefits in short term

Need of excellent expertise

Key is internal cooperation

of CEO, production,

comercial, RTD,

environment and

purchasing department

Benefits are SAVINGS AND

NEW MARKETS


4Join a small and

complementary Expert Team

StrategistComercial

TechnologistOrganizer

Try to create

and mantain a

small and stabile

team for a

longterm work!


5 Adapt to your resources!

If LOW BUDGET:

- Anticipate external RE

drivers to SMEs

- Support SMEs in

benchmarking

competitors

- Facilitate access of SMEs

to EcoInnovative Funds

- Select SMEs with

“Pareto”

- Collaborate with

Environmental Authorities

when they require RE

- Copy EREK member

Tools

If ECONOMIC

RESOURCES EXIST:

- Think about an AIDA

service model for SMEs

- Think about

EcoInnovative RE

Programmes

- Invest in “Life Cycle

Thinking”

- Search the best technical

experts (Vouchers)


Spend efforts in working with

Demand Creating Instruments

Can you contribute

to..

design legislation

and standards?

design economic

instruments

(subsidies, tax

deductions)?

promote labels

and EPDs?

6


Show your results!!!

Separeted reports for

SMEs and

Government, and…

estimate also impacts

Hard work for data collection, “sexy”

reporting and cost efectiveness

analysis is necessary.

7

Results reports should

increase COMMITMENT

of Programme financing

Government


1

45

7

6

8

2 3

Our learnings,… useful for you?

Ander Elgorriaga Kunze

[email protected]

Documents

Regional Schemes for Ressource Efficiency in SMEs in the … Elgorriaga... · 1.500 ton/y materials saved 80 industries involved. 9 SUPPORTING RE IN SMEs DRIVERS ISO 14001 approval