Industry and businesses do not operate in vacuum. They respond to the business environment, and especially to those signals, which are perceived to be impacting them either beneficially or adversely. It is this mix of threats and opportunities that conditions the corporate behaviour.
The Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production assessment methodology is used to systematically identify and evaluate the Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production opportunities and facilitate their implementation in industries.
The main steps of a Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production assessment are outlined below. This procedure is useful in organising the Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production programme in a company and bringing together persons to be involved with the development, evaluation, and implementation of RECP measures. A key feature to successfully achieve a resource efficient, cleaner and safer enterprise, is monitoring of performance improvements both in terms of increased resource productivity, as well as in terms of decreased pollution intensity. In this respect the joint UNEP & UNIDO RECP programme has developed a guide for Enterprise Level Indicators for Resource Productivity and Pollution Intensity. The Guide is mainly tailored to SMEs; it provides a core set of enterprise level resource productivity and pollution intensity indicators, and explains how these indicators can be applied and how they can be used to initiate RECP and document results.
The Guide is also supported by a set of success stories, which demonstrate how the indicators have been applied in different companies to measure the results of RECP.(Kenya; Sri Lanka; Peru)
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Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production assessment is most often divided in five phases. It should be noted that the same methodology can be applied to reduce risks and energy consumption.