Analysis for ENPI countries of Social and Economic Benefits of Enhanced Environmental Protection...

Analysis for ENPI countries of Social and Economic Benefits

of Enhanced Environmental Protection

EuropeAid DCI-ENV/2009/225-962

Wim Van BreusegemTeam Leader

Arcadis+32(0)473.36.10.46

e-mail: [email protected]

This presentation: introduction to the project

• Project Team• Project activities• Geographical scope• Project objectives• Justification of the project ?• Target audience: who should benefit from the results ?

Project results• Dissemination of project results• Technical scope• What are benefits ?

23-24 .06.2011 Final Project Event:: ENPI-East , Chisinau 2

Consortium & Team

• Consortium:

– ARCADIS Belgium N.V (leader)

– Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP),

– Ecologic Institute,

– Environmental Resources Management

– Metroeconomica

• Team:

• EU experts (methodology development, benefit assessments, reporting)

• National Experts: 1 in each country, to support the EU experts


The main project activity

• Assessment of the economic, social, health, environmental benefits to society, i.e. the identification, and where practical, quantification and monetisation of the benefits arising from environmental improvements.

• that can result from taking action (policy, legislation, investments) to protect and to improve the quality of the environment,

• and, where possible and appropriate, estimate their economic value –

• hence making benefits comparable and understandable to a wide audience.


Different types of benefits

• Environmental

• Economic

• Health

• Social


Environmental benefits

= the positive impacts on the natural environment of meeting environmental targets.

• Example: if the target of secondary treatment of all urban waste water would be reached, this would result in environmental benefits, such as:– improved surface water quality– avoidance of eutrophication, that can lead to

biodiversity loss.


Economic benefits

• benefits from natural resources (e.g.tourism related to protected areas, higher fish catch rates),

• avoided costs (e.g. of hospitalisation and lost days at work from health impacts)

• the development of new and existing industries/sectors of the economy (e.g. renewable energy),

• increased employment through environmental investments (e.g. in waste collection, eco-tourism).


Social benefits: examples

• the safeguarding of, and access to, the natural and cultural heritage (avoided pollution damage to historic buildings or the destruction of historic landscapes),

• recreational opportunities (e.g., fishing and bathing),

• benefits of trust in quality environmental service provision (e.g., water quality),


Health benefits

• Can also be interpreted as social benefits, but given the direct link between health and environment, they have been assessed as a separate category.

• Examples: – a reduction in the cases of illness and the avoidance

of premature mortality arising from water-borne diseases,

– a reduction in respiratory and cardio-pulmonary diseases associated with poor air quality.


Geographical Scope

ENPI countries:

–ENPI South: 9 countries

–ENPI East: 7 countries


Project objectives

• Overall objective: move environmental issues higher up on the political agenda in the ENPI countries.

• Specific objectives:

– to improve awareness in the countries of the social and economic benefits of enhanced environmental protection

– to improve the countries’ capacity to assess these benefits.


Project objectives

In this way, the project will encourage each country: to mobilise the necessary financial resources

for environmental improvements. integrate environmental considerations into

policy making.


Justification of the project

• Why is the project needed ?• Policy makers have often a clearer perception of

what it costs to maintain the quality of the environment, than of the resulting benefits.

• Why is achieving the objectives, i.e. raising awareness of benefits, important ?

• It is the perceived benefits that drive policy decisions to allocate public resources to maintain and to improve the quality of the environment;


Target Audience

• The project does not have a specific ‘beneficiary’ ,but 3 categories of authorities are targeted:

1. Authorities with environmental responsibilities

2. Authorities responsible for a development sector with a potential negative or positive impact on the environment (such agriculture, energy, or industrial development).

3. Finance ministries, as they often play an important role in deciding the funding levels for each other ministry.

The benefit assessments provide evidence to authorities, that supports their arguments for funding of environmental actions and for environmental integration


Project activities

• Development of a benefit assessment methodology, building on previous analysis and methodologies, in particular on:

– The IEEP methodology for DG Environment (2008)

– the World Bank’s Cost of Environmental Degradation (COED) Methodology.

• Preparation of Benefit Assessment Manual for internal project use.

• Collection of available information from international organisations (UN, World Bank etc.)


Project activities

• A mission to each of the countries in the period May-October 2010: presentation and selling of the project, collection of data needed for the benefit assessments

• Follow-up by the project’s National Expert in each of the countries

• Completion of a country information check-list, with all information needed for the country benefit assessments


Project activities

• Country Benefit Assessments• Regional synthesis benefit assessment reports

(ENPI East & ENPI South)• A Benefit Assessment Manuel for policy makers• 2 Final project events, to present the benefit

assessment results– ENPI East countries: Chisinau,23-24 June 2011– ENPI South countries: Brussels, 28-29 June 2011

8 officials of each country have been invited


Dissemination of the project’s results, through:

• The 2 final project events

• Country officials that participate in the final project events

• Publication on the project’s website:

www.environment-benefits.eu

• Other ENPI projects


http://www.environment-benefits.eu/

Project results

• Country Benefit Assessment reports

• Regional Synthesis Benefit Assessments Reports (ENPI East & ENPI South)

• Benefit Assessment Manual for Policy makers


Technical scope

5 themes:1. Air

2. Water

3. Waste

4. Nature

5. Climate change


Technical Scope

• “The environment” comprises a vast range of issues.

• Clearly not everything could be covered by the project, and a selection of issues that meet the following criteria, was made:• sufficiently representative of the 5 project themes,

• common across the countries under study,

• sufficiently simple to be assessed rigorously.

• To this end, the 5 themes were sub-divided into sub-themes and, for each sub-theme, smaller categories called parameters have been identified.

The benefit assessments are about assessing the benefits of improvements for each of these parameters.


Scope of the country benefit assessments


THEME SUB-THEME PARAMETER

AIR Air quality Ambient air quality

WATER

Water - infrastructure and practice

Connection to safe drinking water

Connection to sewage network and hygiene conditions

Level of waste water treatment

Water - natural resources

Surface water quality

Water resource scarcity

WASTE

Waste collection Waste collection coverage

Waste treatment Waste treatment

Methane emissions from waste

NATURE

Biodiversity Level of biodiversity

Sustainable use of natural resources

Deforestation levels

Level of cropland degradation

Climate change responses

Uptake of renewable energy sources

Climate change adaptation (responses to a selection of 2-3 impacts)

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