21st Consultative meeting on Business & Industry - 2004

On 7 - 8 October 2004 UNEP held its 21st Annual Consultative Meeting with Industry Associations in Paris. Using a new, more interactive format, the meeting focused on the cross sectoral topics Life Cycle Approaches, Economic Instruments and Public Private Partnerships. It also included discussions in groups clustered by industry sector on capacity building and technology support.

• Agenda (PDF - 29 KB)
  
  
• Participants List (PDF - 32 KB)
  
  
• Debate 1: Life Cycle Approaches
  
  • Opening speaker Ivo Mersiowsky from Solvay Group gave the participants an update of the state of the art of Life Cycle Approaches in the plastic industry.
    (presentation - PDF - 1.87MB)
    
    
  • Panelist Elizabeth Girardi Schoen, Senior Director of Environmental Affairs at Pfizer and Chair of the Global Environmental Management Initiative, addressed the question: Life Cycle Approaches, what are the boundaries?
    (presentation - PDF - 1.29 MB)
    
    
  • Ralph Thurm, Director Business Engagement of the Global Reporting Initiative addressed the issue of managing and communicating the information related to life cycle impact through reporting.
    (presentation - PDF - 908 KB)
    
    
• Debate 2: What happened to economic instruments?
  
  • Professor of Economics at the University College in London, Stephen Smith described the state of play with economic instruments and new developments in introducing emissions trading.
    (presentation - PDF - 14 KB)
    
    
  • John Scowcroft, Head of Unit of the Environmental and Sustainable Development Department of EURELECTRIC argued that in order for economical instruments to have significant impact, an coherent body of policies needs to be established.
    (presentation - PDF - 293 KB)
    
    
  • Renaurd Abord de Chatillon, Ingénieur Général des Mines, from the Conseil Général des Mines of France gave the participants a regulators view on policy implementation and legislative reform in Europe.
    
    
• Debate 3: Public Private Partnerships
  
  • Charles Chaumin, Senior Vice President of Suez Environment, highlighted the contributions of Public Private Partnerships in the provision of water and sanitation.
    (presentation - PDF - 1.93 MB)
    
    
  • Harriette Amissah-Arthur, Director of the Kumasi Institute for Technology and Environment in Ghana gave examples of new models in providing cleaner energy in rural areas in Africa.
    (presentation - PDF - 3.89MB)
    
    
  • Michael Holz, Global Head of Sustainable Development at the Deutsche Bank and representative of the UNEP Finance Initiative, gave a finance sector perspective on public-private partnership for sustainable development.
    (presentation - PDF- 353 KB)
    
    
  • Tom Hamlin, UNEP DTIEs Project Manager of the Global Environment Facility, addressed the challenge of partnering to help implement environmental convention goals.
    (presentation - PDF - 1.48 MB)
    
    
• Meeting Report (PDF - 184 KB)