Sustainable Industry Forum

Building on ongoing analysis of the core eco-industries in the SIP/SCP framework and in the context of new initiatives on industrial policy, innovation, resource efficiency and environmental technologies, DG Enterprise & Industry organised a first meeting of a new Sustainable Industry Forum on 15 October 2010. This Forum successfully brought together more than 50 representatives from industry, academia and civil society to examine how Europe can best exploit the potential of its environmental goods and services industries and help all manufacturing to become more resource efficient and competitive. Relevant documents below:

1. The final agenda [13 KB] for the workshop

2. Presentations by panel members, listed in the order they were presented, and with the organization and presenter detailed:

• European Commission - DG Environment [735 KB] (Politano)
• TNO [2 MB] (Tukker)
• FORA - Nordic Council [2 MB] (Bjerre)
• Econsense [426 KB] (Miljak)
• IES - NISP [2 MB] (Laybourn)
• Veolia [303 KB] (Banon)
• Erec [1014 KB] (Lins)
• BASF [8 MB] (Weber)
• REMake [2 MB] (Bersano)
• Eucetsa [5 MB] (Platteuw)

3. Conclusions [19 KB] of the first Sustainable Industry workshop

A further workshop was held on the subject of Resource Efficiency and Competitiveness on 14 February 2011. The Resource Efficiency flagship falls within the EU2020 strategy for sustainable, smart and inclusive growth. DG Enterprise & Industry's focus is on the industrial transition to a low carbon, resource and energy efficient economy. This workshop tested out the findings of a DG Enterprise & Industry commissioned study into Resource Efficiency and Competitiveness, and focussed on how the Commission can work with industry to achieve the twin aims of increased competitive and increased resource efficiency. Relevant documents below:

1. The final agenda [16 KB] for the workshop

2. Presentations by panel members, listed in the order they were presented, and with the organization and presenter detailed:

• European Commission - Secretariat General [239 KB] (Moser)
• ECORYS [809 KB] (Berg)
• Saint-Gobain [14 MB] (Quirijns)
• Solvay [3 MB] (Bande)
• Norsk Hydro [9 MB] (Scharf-Bergmann)
• CMI [3 MB] (Boyer)
• Akwadok [15 MB] (Moerman)
• Deutsche Telekom [365 KB] (Peters)
• SITA Suez Environment [11 MB] (Van Eijk)
• Resource and Energy Efficiency Partnership [119 KB] (De Lamberterie)
• European Commission - DG Environment [56 KB] (Misiga)
• Business Europe Position Paper - April 2010 [133 KB] (Afftre)

3. The feedback [18 KB] from the 'barriers' breakout session

The report into Resource Efficiency and Competitiveness is currently being finalised, taking account of comments from stakeholders.  The final version will be uploaded once completed.