1. CHIEF INSPECTORATE
OF ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
Green Growth,
10 May 2012, Warsaw
Session I – Towards Greener
Energy Production
Co-chair Trygve Hallingstad, Senior Programme Adviser, Co-chair Andrzej Jagusiewicz,
Climate and Pollution Agency, Norway Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection

2. Managing natural capital and ecosystem services --
improving resource efficiency and ensure resilience
Ecosystem Economy
(natural capital) (produced capital)
goal: ensure goal: improve
ecosystem resilience resource efficiency
GREEN
ECONOMY
Human well-being
(social and human capital)
goal: enhance social equity
and fair burden-sharing

3. Where natural capital is limited, trade-offs between
different ecosystem services and resource uses occur
Capitals
Global
& Natural capital
European
(i.e. air, water, land, seas, biodiversity)
Food Ecosystems Water Produced capital
resources resources
(i.e. along resources life‐cycle)
Social and human capital
Human
Well‐Being Services
&
Health Resource needs for consumption
(e.g. provisioning services)
Energy Material Access and exposure to environment
resources resources (e.g. regulating and cultural services)
Links between resource uses
(e.g. water needed for food production)

4. Challenges>TINA
• Human-being will always needs FOOD, WATER, ENERGY and MATERIALS; we are 7 billion
consumers
• Loss of global biodiversity is at rates up to 1000 times higher than the historical background
rate
• 13 million hectares of the world’s forests are cut down annually (Greece size)
• Necessity to improve ecological resilience
• Traditional GDP does not include the social and human price we pay for side effects of our
economic output e.g. dammage to the environment
• Need for redesigning our economic models such that we can generate growth and improve the
quality of life, while also protecting the interesys of future gnerations (GHB)
• The solution has been termed „the green economy” and there is no alternative
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5. Progress towards improving energy/resource
efficiency
Environmental issue EEA 38 EU 27 target / objective EU 27
- trend? - which? - on track?
Transboundary air pollution To limit emissions of acidifying and
(NOX, NMVOC, SO2, NH3, PM, 2,5 ) eutrophying pollutants and ozone
precursors
Greenhouse gas emissions To reduce greenhouse gas emissions by
20 % by 2020, including BC
Urban air pollution To limit emissions of PM, 2,5 , BC and
ozone precursors
Maritime transport emissions To reduce NOX and greenhouse gas
emissions
Decoupling and recycling To decouple resource use from
(decouple resource use from economic economic growth; to move towards a
growth) recycling society

6. Polish – Norwegian Cooperation
•Cooperation project under EEA and Norway Financial Mechanisms 2004-09: Improving the
efficiency of Polish Environmental Inspection based on Norwegian experiences
(GIOŚ and Klif)> succesfully completed and undercountry-wide implementation
•As a follow-up a new risk based and more effective inspection system in Poland for control
and enforcement of environmental legislation>since 2004 3 times more tasks
•Partners have mutually benefited from each other and reinforced the ecological vector of
bilateral cooperation
•New challenge under EEA Grants „Improving environmental monitoring and inspection:
1)strengthening air quality assessment system based on Norwegian experience
and 2)strengthening of technical capacities of inspection through procurement of
measurement, lab and IT equipement for a total of 10 million euro.

8. Thank you for your attention!
Takk for oppmerksomheten!
Dziękuję za uwagę!