Conferinta Nationala privind Dezvoltarea Sistemului Statistic de Mediu in Romania

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Sustainable development indicators and their
impact on national policies "International and
European framework" Paolo Soprano paolo.soprano
_at_svs.minambiente.it
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SDS review CSD 12
Johannesburg WSSDTowards a global partnership
for SDBarcelona Spring CouncilCommunication on
impact assessment
Source EEA, 2003
2004
Göteborg, SDS, 6EAPOECD SD strategy
2002
2001
Lisbon Spring Council
2000
Cardiff Summit
UN general assembly on SDCop 3 KyotoAmsterdam
Treaty
1998
1997
World summit social development
1995
Rio Summit/Agenda 215th EAP
SD policy development
1992
Bruntland Report
1987
1972
UNEP conference Human Environment 1st EAP MIT
The Limits to Growth
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EU processesCardiff, Lisbon and Göteborg

• Cardiff Council (1998)
• integration of environmental concerns into
  sectoral policies (art. 6 Treaty of Amsterdam)
• assessment of environmental impact
• Lisbon Council (2000)
• 2010 goal to become the most competitive and
  dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world
  capable of sustainable economic growth with more
  and better jobs and greater social cohesion
• Göteborg Council (2001)
• an environmental dimension is added to Lisbon
• adoption of the Sustainable Development Strategy

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The framework for EU SD indicators

• The 6 EU SD Strategy priorities Climate, Health,
  Natural resources, Transport, Poverty, Ageing
  society
• 2 commitments from WSSD Sustainable Production
  and Consumption, Good governance
• External dimension (Towards a global partnership
  for sustainable development COM 2002/82)
• Economic development

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Focusing on the Göteborg strategy
Indicators to be defined for the EU SD
Strategy No competition with Lisbon Structural
Indicators, for they answer to different needs
(different time horizons/priorities) Anyway,
interaction is crucial and the Lisbon priorities
shall be integrated by the Göteborg strategy

• A Task-Force on SD indicators was created
• (12 Member States, 2 EFTA, 2 Accession Countries,
• several EC DGs, OECD, UN-CSD, EEA)
• Main objectives
• initial list of indicators elaborated in Mar
  2004 for the review of
• the EU SD Strategy in 2004
• coordination with other SD initiatives

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THE PLANNED LIST 3 LEVELS
Lead objectives Long-term policy issues
max 20 headline indicators
General policy performance Priority objectives
of SDS
30 general policy performance indicators
Monitoring of measures or actions
detailed level of indicators on efficiency of
policy measures
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The Italian Strategy on Sustainable Development
From NPSD (1993) to NSSD (2002)
NPSD, 1993
NSSD, 2002
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The 10 headline environmental indicators in the
Italian SD Strategy

• Climate change
• Green-house effect aggregated gas emissions in
  terms of C02 equivalents
• Energy intensity of the economy per GDP unit
• Increase in forestry area
• Avoided GHG emissions due to international
  cooperation programmes

• Transport
• Volume of transport relative to GDP
  (passengers/km - freight in t/km per GDP unit)
• Modal split of transport (passengers/km,
  freight in ton/km)

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The 10 headline environmental indicators in the
Italian SD Strategy

• Public health
• Air quality population exposure to air pollution

• Management of natural resources
• Municipal waste collected, landfilled,
  incinerated (kg per inhabitant)
• Municipal waste destined to waste-to-energy heat
  and power plants (ton/KW)
• Share of renewable energy

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The Italian Strategy on Sustainable Development
Tools and methods for integration
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
CIPE
Regions
COMMISSIONS
Committee deliberations
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The Italian Strategy on Sustainable Development
Tools and methods for integration
NSSD
STATE REGIONS CONFERENCE
REGIONAL STRATEGIES
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The Italian Strategy on Sustainable Development
INFORMATION NEEDS
REGIONS
MINISTRIES
TECNICHAL BOARD OF CIPE SD-COMMISSION
Monitoring System
APAT
ENEA
ISTAT
INFORMATION SUPPLY
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The Italian Strategy on Sustainable Development
Improvement challenges

• Better tools and methods for SD governance
• Better tools and methods for SD information
  system
• Towards a knowledge-based policies/towards a SD
  oriented knowledge