PRIORITY POLICY MEASURES AND ACTIONS NEEDED FOR BETTER ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE SUSTAINABILITY

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UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND
METALLURGY CENTRE OF ECOLOGY 1756, Sofia, 8
Kliment Ohridski Blvd, pelovsky_at_uctm.edu

• PRIORITY POLICY MEASURES AND ACTIONS NEEDED FOR
  BETTER ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE SUSTAINABILITY
• Prof. Yoncho Pelovski
• Head of Centre of Ecology at UCTM
• Vice President of BCCI

• Conference on Environment and Climate Change,
  19.11.2008, Sofia

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BASIC NEGATIVE TENDENCIES OF ENVIRONMENT AND
CLIMATE CHANGES

• - Less and less forestry areas
• - More and more wastes as waste waters, solid
  wastes and air pollutants
• - Shortage of raw materials with quality and the
  need to use lower and lower quality of natural
  raw materials
• - Higher and higher Global energy consumption
• - Higher and higher Global consumption of goods,
  because of higher population and higher standards

• Conference on Environment and Climate Change,
  19.11.2008, Sofia

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POLICY AND ACTIONS MEASURES TAKEN ON THE WAY TO
KEEP THE BALANCE AND BETTER ENVIRONMENTAL
CONDITIONS ON GLOBAL AND REGIONAL LEVEL

• Global conventions approved and their
  implementation
• Introduction of stronger and stronger limits for
  pollutants generated and released from different
  sources
• Restrictions for use of certain products
• Development and larger use of BAT with lower
  consumption of Energy and Raw materials
• Development of specific programmers and their
  implementation /unleaded gasoline plantation of
  trees, etc./
• Stronger measures against polluters and
  introducing the principle to pay for damages
  done
• Increasing the areas of protected zones.

• Conference on Environment and Climate Change,
  19.11.2008, Sofia

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NEXT PRIORITY AREAS FOR POLICY AND ACTIONS
MEASURES NEEDED

• ON THE WAY TO LIMIT THE NEGATIVE TENDENCIES
  MENTIONED ABOVE
• - TO HELP NATURE TO KEEP THE BETTER BALANCE OF
  FORESTRY AREAS, INTRODUCING NEW LEGAL
  REQUIREMENTS AND EXTENDING SUPPORTING MEASURES
  ABOUT DEVELOPING A ACTION PROGRAMMES ABOUT
• - ACCELARATING THE INOVATION PROCESSES AND
  INTRUDUCTION OF BAT IN LARGER SCALE WITH
  PRIORITIES, RELATED TO THE SAVING OF ENERGY
  LOWER CONSUMPTION OF FRESH WATER AND RAW
  MATERIALS
• - MINIMIZATION OF GENERATED EMISSIONS AND
  SUPPORTING LEGAL MEASURES FOR IMPROVING RECYCLING
  AND USE OF WASTES AS A SECONDARY ENERGY AND RAW
  MATERIALS RESOURS
• - INTRODUCTION OF RESTRICTIONS ON THE BASE
  BENCHMARKING AND THE BEST ACHIEVMENTS IN THE
  DIFFERENT AREAS OF ACTIVITIES /BRANCES OF
  INDUSTRY/

• Conference on Environment and Climate Change,
  19.11.2008, Sofia

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Specific programmes and measures needed

• Minimization of biodegradable wastes land filing,
  developing programmes and supporting measures for
  utilization as a energy resource or balance of
  nutrients in the agriculture updating of the EU
  directive is a positive fact, but such a measures
  should be applied to the hydrocarbon industrial
  wastes
• New efforts for utilization of the gas hydrates
  as new raw energy resource
• Partial or complete replacement of coal fuel with
  RDF or biomass from wastes or specially
  cultivated trees
• Supporting measures for energy and raw materials
  saving
• Supporting business initiatives like Responsible
  Care and Stewardship Products for minimization of
  emissions and safety during all life cycle of the
  materials and products

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EC measures for the period 2007-2013 unacceptable
and impossible for Bulgaria

• - The change of basic year from 1988 approved by
  the Global Un convention to 2007 means that the
  industrial production is fixed at a much lower
  industrial production (about 60)
• - On the base of the contract with EU Bulgaria
  was forced to shut down Nuclear units wit a power
  about 1600 MWT (25 from the total electricity
  production power)
• - During the same period of time on the base of
  the IPPC requirements and permits given, Thermal
  Power Stations (TPS) must invest for cleaning
  systems and other facilities and upgrading
  technologies
• - There is no free market of electricity and the
  TPS are not free to increase the prices of
  electricity
• - If the TPS have to pay for additional CO2
  emissions they will be forced to close
  production and it will be not only a barrier for
  growth and sustainable development, but a
  catastrophe for population and industry Such a
  scenario must be avoided especially in view with
  other troubles, related to the financial crisis
  ahead

• Conference on Environment and Climate Change,
  19.11.2008, Sofia

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Visible measures to be taken on the way to avoid
difficulties

• - Bulgaria and other countries heavy affected by
  the plan for 2007-2013 to excluded from the
  obligations to implement this plan
• Measures for this period of time to oriented to
  the upgrading technologies and investments
  related to the cleaning systems, related to the
  implementation of the IPPC requirements already
  fixed in the permits about
• Benchmarking system to be developed and
  introduced for industrial sub-sectors affected
• Trading system to be more flexible and to give
  chances to the companies to integrate their
  efforts on the way to achieve progress in this
  field
• Much more financial resources to be available for
  grants on the way to stimulate implementation of
  new technologies
• Much more financial resources to be available for
  improving education and stimulation technical
  studies of the students at technical universities
  LLL programme

• Conference on Environment and Climate Change,
  19.11.2008, Sofia

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About realistic emission limits in EU

• - All the limits introduced to be on the base of
  BAT in the sub-sectors and WHO unification
  needed in view to competition from the other part
  of the global markets and avoid transfer of
  productions site from Europe to the countries
  outside EU
• - Recommended limits for green gasses emissions
  to be developed and proposed as a benchmarking
  indicators for each sub-sector of the industry on
  the base of BAT

• Conference on Environment and Climate Change,
  19.11.2008, Sofia

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Some time limits for the legal permits, related
to the investment projects

• 1.Review is needed for the permit procedures
  before decisions taken , related to the
  investment projects the period of prevention
  measures like EIA, IPPC procedure etc. should not
  exceed 12 months other wise the implementation
  process is slower then the innovation process
  going on Special attention should be given for
  the management of protected areas management
  plans have to be approved before the final
  decision for protection according existing
  legislation conflicts are coming at the moment
  when investment proposals are on the table
• 2. Reporting unification and minimization also
  needed at the moment many reports are required
  on the base national, EU and UN legal acts and
  agreements.

• Conference on Environment and Climate Change,
  19.11.2008, Sofia

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Sustainable development on the base of
partnership and dialog development

• Partnership and efficient dialog should be the
  basic precondition for successful sustainable
  development
• Such a task is very difficult and progress may be
  achieved on the base of clear and equal
  responsibility from the parties involved up to
  now the legal responsibilities are mostly for
  business involved and much less for Authorities
  and other partners
• According to the science such a state is unstable
  and if the policy efforts are not sufficient the
  system will collapse soon or later
• Today conference and consultations is a
  contribution for the dialog needed and I hope the
  final results will be positive.

• Conference on Environment and Climate Change,
  19.11.2008, Sofia

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TANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

• Conference on Environment and Climate Change,
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