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Brainstorm as Part of the Advisory Board Meeting 2020

The Advisory Board (AB) meeting of the UNIDO project “Promoting the Adaptation and Adoption of Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production through the Establishment and Operation of a Cleaner Production Centre in Ukraine” took place on February 4th, in the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Conference Hall. The event gathered various governmental officials, industrial companies, international organizations, donors, and Ukrainian banks.

Viacheslav Bykovets, Vice-President of the Union of Entrepreneurs of Small, Middle-Sized and Privatized Enterprises was elected the Chairman of the Meeting.

Nicolas Guigas, Deputy Director of the Swiss Cooperation Office in Ukraine and Branko Dunjić, UNIDO Chief Technical Adviser addressed the audience with a welcome speech.

The first part of the meeting started with the presentation of Andrii Vorfolomeiev, the RECP Centre’s Director. He highlighted the key Centre’s outcomes in 2019 basing on the tasks set in the AB resume 2019.

The second AB part offered its participants a brainstorming session in three working groups: 1. Governmental institutions. 2. International organizations. 3. Companies, business associations, financial institutions. Each WG had its own moderator who made quick notes the generated ideas on the flipchart. The discussions appeared to be very open, lively and efficient and revolved around key issues: finding ways and suggestions to help the Centre attracting new clients, promoting the idea of green modernization of Ukrainian economy, large-scale RECP concept implementation. 

Upon brainstorming, the moderators shared the ideas with the other participants. The first WG brainstormed a numbers of ideas. Here are the key ones:

  • monitoring Programs and Laws implementation on the national level;
  • actively participate in drafting laws, regulations (SDG 8,9);
  • enhance the Centre’s cooperation with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine in terms of elaborating The Industrial Strategy Action Plan 2030;
  • drafting roadmaps to support laws and regulations implementation;
  • facilitate the Centre’s communication with academia and industrial companies to wide technical innovations implementation; and
  • support businesses to implement circular economy and sustainable development principles by providing help to governmental institutions to work out incentive tools.

The second group recommended:

  • focus more on ‘carbon border tax’ in RECP assessments;
  • provide consultancy on emissions verification;
  • inform companies on BAPs and push them to use BREFs;
  • evaluate BREFs use at national companies by three criteria, namely, environmental, economic and social;
  • enhance activities in water, waste and chemicals management;
  • inform companies of available financial incentive tools and bank loans for resource efficiency implementation;
  • create an online platform with laws and regulations the companies and enterprises are obliged to follow; and
  • collect data set for industrial companies.

The third working group offered its own recommendations basically focused on:

  • strengthen marketing strategy to attract potential clients;
  • establish new or maintain existing networks (clubs) for mutual experience sharing about cooperation with RECP Centre;
  • help increase export potential of the national companies by helping them meet the EU standards to goods and products;
  • participate in international fairs to enhance the Centre’s image; and
  • facilitate elaboration of educational curricula on waste management.

In general, the Advisory Board 2020 met its expectations. Thanks to brainstorming, the Centre got a list of activities, some have to be boosted, some to get started, and others – to be enhanced. From now on, the Centre will foster its everyday work and activities to reach its target plan 2020.