Development of the environment business sector Environment as
Development of the environment business sector • Environment as job motor • Examples • Environment as a regional development strategy Gottfried Lamers
Environment as policy task • Environment is a policy field and has its own value (as health policy, defence or others) • Jobs are not the primary goal of environmental policy and environment in a narrow sense produces only a limited number of jobs (WWTP) • „smart“ environmental policy combines different economic sectors with environmental tasks • Additional environmental measures (ambiguous environmental policy) create markets and jobs
Business development • Various forecasts of development opportunities are published – ETAP progress report 2004: Environmental industries have in total a volume of 500 bln. € (comparable with the pharmacy-sector) and an increase of 5 % per year – BAP impact assessment: Increasing the share of renewable energy + 5 % until 2010 will create 250. 000 – 300. 000 new jobs
6 types of activities
Governmental measures for developing of a business sector • Promotion of the single enterprise (CIP) – – Start-up and seed financing, Guarantees for producers Infrastructure (technology centre) Providing soft skills (business angels, market studies, ) • Creating a market (LIFE) – Requirements (particular filters) – Subsidies for applications – Advertisement (demonstration projects, green public procurement, awards) • Regional strategy (SF)
Creation of a market • Requirements: – Negative appearance – Creates only the basic environmental sector – No expansion potential • Subsidies – Develop the entrance in a market – Leverage effect – High signal effect • Soft measures – Influencing people (including business men) – 7 key principles of human behaviour (env. agency + nef see: www. neweconomics. org)
Evaluation of the measures • Evaluation of the environmental subsidy scheme in Austria (2004) – All climate relevant actions: 50, 8 Mio. € subsidies, 232 Mio. € investments, 3. 100 jobs, 56, 7 Mio. € state income by taxes – Biomass heating, CHP: 43 Mio. € subsidies, 190 Mio. investments, 2. 530 jobs, 45, 8 Mio. € state income by taxes • Evaluation results serve as an additional argument – main reason for the actions is still the climate change
Results of the subsidies
Effects on the economy
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