lessons learnt from green growth indicator development in slovakia

Lessons Learnt from Green Growth Indicator Development in Slovakia

Tatiana Gustafikova, Slovak Environmental Agency

www.sazp.sk

Banská Bystrica

Bratislava

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow

it from our children.

– Native American Proverb

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Outline of the Presentation

Environment and its assessment in the Slovak

Republic

Green Growth/Green Economy and the Slovak

Republic

Towards Green Growth Indicators

What have we learnt?

Development, Challenges and Future work

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Slovak Republic

49 034 km2

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Basic Figures on Slovakia

HDI 0,83 (39. place)

GDP - total (at market prices 2014) - per capita (current prices 2014)

75 214,9 mil. EUR 13 900 EUR

Government statistics - deficit (2014) - gross debt (2014)

2,9% of GDP 53,6% of GDP

Unemployment rate (2014) - less than 25 years

13,2% 29,7%

Life expectancy – females (2014) Life expectancy – males (2014)

80 years 73 years

HDI 0,83 (39. place)

GDP - total (at market prices 2014) - per capita (current prices 2014)

75 214,9 mil. EUR 13 900 EUR

Government statistics - deficit (2014) - gross debt (2014)

2,9% of GDP 53,6% of GDP

Unemployment rate (2014) - less than 25 years

13,2% 29,7%

Life expectancy – females (2014) Life expectancy – males (2014)

80 years 73 years

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Basic Figures on the Environment in Slovakia

Area 49 034 km2

Area covered by forests 41%

Protected Areas for biodiversity: Habitats Directive (2013)

48,845 km2

GHG emissions (without LULUCF) (2012) 42 710 thousand of tonnes CO2 equiv.

PM10 emissions (2012) 32 449 tonnes

DMC - total (2013) - per capita (2013)

61 535 thousand of tonnes 11 367 tonnes

Resource productivity (2013) 1,1959 EUR per kg.

Energy intensity of the SR economy (2013) 337,2 kg of oil equiv. per 1000 EUR

Waste - landfill rate (2012) - recycling rate of municipal waste (2013)

41,6% 10,7%

Water - population connected to public water supply (2014)

- population connected to urban wastewater collecting and treatment system (2014)

87,7%

64,7%

Environmental taxation - revenues as % of GDP (2014) - revenues as % of TRT&SC (2012)

1,72% 6,18%

Environmental Performance Index 2015 85,42% (24. place)

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Armenia Slovakia

Population 3 009 800 (133th) 5 421 349 (129th)

Area 29 800 km² (142th) 49 035 km² (116th)

Population density

100/km² (99th) 110/km2 (88th)

Independence 23 August 1991 21 September 1991

1 January 1993

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vs

Armenia Slovakia

GDP per capita (2014)

current U.S. dollars

3 873,5 (121th)

18 507 (61th)

GDP* growth (2013-2014)

3,5 % 2,5 %

Urbanisation (The World Factbook, 2015)

62,7% of total population 53,9% of total population

Life expectancy at birth (2014)

71 male, 79 female 73 male, 80 female

* GDP at market prices based on constant local currency

Source: World bank

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Armenia

Slovakia

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Slovak Environment Agency (SEA)

It is a professional organization of the SR MoE with a national scope, focusing on the environmental care and landscape planning in accordance with the principles of sustainable development.

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Environmental Indicators in Slovakia

Key tools for environmental assessment, reporting and policymaking.

The purpose is mainly:

to provide stable base for the evaluation of progress in

areas of the environment

to evaluate the fulfilling of targets and given measures

to answer key policy questions

to create a national set of indicators that is compatible

with internationally accepted indicators sets and is a

basis for international comparison

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SEA – database of env. data

National Report on the

State of Environment

in SR (legal

framework)

In 2013 one chapter about

green growth and green

economy

English version

Environmental

Indicators/Core set (in

english)

Environmental

components indicators,

env. risk factors indi, env.

care indicators

Sectoral indicators

report and sectoral

indicators

Energy, industry,

transport, agriculture,

tourism, forestry

SD indicators Environmental pillar

SCP and RE indicators According to EEA and

Eurostat set of indicators

GG indicators OECD

Analyse of the indicators and reports of EEA, OECD, EUROSTAT, OSN (UN CSD)

Assessment of the possibility to use them in the slovak conditon

Set of the individual and agregated indicators

SDIndikators Sectorial indicators

Indicators MF Indicators SCP Indicators GG Indicators

Key indicators

<2013

New set of sectorial indicators

Environmental indicators

New set of SD Indicators

RE Indicators GG Indicators

2014 <

Building of the SEA indicators assessment

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Enviroportal

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Green Growth/Green Economy and the

Slovak Republic

Slovakia is also bound by a number of outcomes from the RIO+

Summit In this perspective, and other conceptual and strategic

documents of the EU, OECD and UN.

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Time for Green Growth

The Slovak Republic is a small and very open economy.

Structural changes are necessary due to the fact that,

though the Slovak Republic in the framework of the

European Union belongs to the most rapidly growing

economies (its gross domestic product per capita in

purchasing power parity increased from 47 % of the EU27

average in 1995 to 73 % in 2012), its competitive

advantage was made by low taxes and labour price.

In the international comparison the Slovak Republic still

belongs to the countries with the lowest innovation

performance, lagging behind the EU average considerably.

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Green Growth Indicators

The idea of developing Green Growth Indicators

for the Slovak Republic comes from:

Outcomes of National Workshop on

Green Growth (September 2011)

Recommendations of the OECD in the

Environmental Performance Review of

the Slovak Republic (September 2011)

and Economic Survey of the Slovak

Republic (December 2012)

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Basic document and inspiration: Towards Green Growth: Monitoring

progress. OECD Indicators

What was/is the target?

Creating the national set of GG indicators

Tool for identifying priorities and the most

pressing issues

Formulating and assessing Green

Growth/Green Economy policy options

Evaluating the performance of policy

implementation

Green Growth Indicators

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Institutional coordination and capacity building

Many actors involved, institutional coordination and

cooperation, training and capacity building; proper

funding and priority setting

Steps to Develop Green Growth Indicators in Slovakia

Working group on Green Growth Indicators

established in July 2012 (MoE/SEA)

Co-operation with the OECD

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Indicator selection

Reflecting national circumstances

Balance between “green” and “growth”

Identifying data sources across government agencies

Check and comparison of indicators data definitions and

availability of data in Slovakia

Data compilation and measurement

Organising data flows

Addressing quality issues, including time series


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Data used come from the official national or international sources and

databases.

SEA

MoLaSA

SHMI

SNP SR

SGI

SO SR

MoE

MoEc IFP

MoF

MoAaRD

SO SR

MoH

PHA

Data flow

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Interpretation and communication

Placing the indicators in the country’s context

Correctly interpreting the results

Many actors involved, need for continuity in the

measurement efforts, coping with limited

resources


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Summary assessment of indicator ' s trend from the green growth perspective is based on

a subjective evaluation of the responsible assessor due to

the fact that the Strategy is not officially implemented in

the Slovak Republic and therefore specific objectives have

not been defined yet.

assessment was built on the trends analysis.

Assessed trend was reviewed and discussed with the WG

members Notes: + positive trend +/- stable trend - negative trend n.a. – no available

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First outcome – august 2012

Data collected and electronically published – end of 2012

comprises 33 individual indicators that are relevant in Slovakia's conditions

4 of them describe voluntary instruments of the environmental strategy (one of the priorities areas of Governmental Programme 2012-2016)

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Publication released in November 2014

(bilingual)

http://www.enviroportal.sk/uploads/files/Dokumenty/ZelenyRast.pdf


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Selected Green Growth Indicators in the Slovak

Republic

Indicator

Definition

Short assessment

Graph



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Environmental and resource productivity

water use

waste generation greenhouse gas emissions material consumption phosphorus surpluses

Decoupling (absolute or relative) is evident in the following areas

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Armenia Slovakia

Renewable energy consumption (% of total final

energy consumption)

6,6 % 10,5 %

Renewable electricity output (% of total electricity

output)

28,9 % 19,3 %

Renewable energy

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Carbon productivity

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Material productivity

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Waste

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Natural asset base

Changes in land use

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Environmental quality of life

Connecting the public to the public sewerage system

Connecting the public to the public water supplies

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Economic opportunities and policy

responses

Note: A - Agricultural production and technologies B - Production, distribution and rational utilisation of energy C - Manufacturing an technologies

Total number of products with

the right to use the national

environmental

label the Environmentally

Friendly Product

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The set of the indicators

Represents a first attempt at transferring the OECD

indicators for green growth to the national level,

and providing feedback to the international

community.

Becomes one of the tools that may shape the view of

government and the public to green growth and can

help to shift towards a more positive view of the

adopted measures, which are essential to the

transition to a green economy in Slovakia.

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New chapter „Green Development and Green economy“ in the

publication „State of the Environment Report Slovak Republic 2013“

(published in 2014) https://www.enviroportal.sk/spravy/spravy-o-

zp/kapitola/521)

Green Growth incorporated into National programme of Reforms (since

2013) and in the development of Operational Programme „Quality of

Environment“ for 2014 – 2020

The chapter concerning green growth in the prepared Environmental

strategy and in the Low carbon Strategy

Utilisation of green growth indicators approach in the sectorial reports

Committee for Terminology under MoE – official Slovak definitions on

terms related to the Green Growth/Green Economy

Public awareness/information – web page

(https://www.enviroportal.sk/environmentalne-temy/starostlivost-o-

zp/zeleny-rast)

Implications

https://www.enviroportal.sk/spravy/spravy-o-zp/kapitola/521





https://www.enviroportal.sk/environmentalne-temy/starostlivost-o-zp/zeleny-rast









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Challenge: leadership beyond

the MoE range

Broad working group –

communication and

compromising in order to

specify relevant and balanced

inputs

No available data and clear

(recognized) definitions of

Green jobs

Green innovation

Green patents

Obstacles, Barriers

and Positive Experiences

First attempt of transferring OECD indicators for Green Growth to the national level and adding some new „national“ ones

View of the government and public on the Green Growth/Green Economy

Improvement of cross-sectoral and governmental/non-governmental cooperation applicable in other areas

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Challenges and Future Work

•Working group “life“ Strengthening of inter-governmental cooperation

•Stable information base for different target group

•English version of database

Education and public awareness

•Response to the new challenges and priorities in environmental policy and assessment of the trends

Tool for ex post assessing of policies

•Green jobs (statistics, definitions, potential)

•New indicator – Green innovations Demand from other

ministries/institutions

•Conference Slovakia towards Green Economy

•Publication on Green Green Economy in Slovakia

Slovakian Presidency of Council of the EU in 2016

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Matka Tereza

Thank you for your attention

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www.sazp.sk

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Time for Green Growth

Among the most discussed environmental improvements related topics in Slovakia are energy efficiency, the greater

utilisation of renewable energy sources, and various adaptation measures including flood protection.

A promising area with certain prospects appears to be the sector of renewable energy sources (RES). The country’s

natural conditions make it particularly suitable for the development of hydro energy and the use of biomass.

Appropriate resources for biomass are provided mainly by forestry.

An area of emerging faces some challenges including the disposal of environmental burdens (contaminated sites), the

reconstruction and modernisation of transport infrastructure, and expanding energy savings in the building sector.

The country has one of the highest landfilling rates in the EU, reflecting the low level of landfill gate fees.