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Annex 5

Closing Remarks

Niclas Svenningsen
Industry Programme Officer
UNEP/ROAP, Bangkok, Thailand

Over the last four days we have together discovered the shape, form and function of a tool that we call Environmental Technology Assessment. Under the excellent guidance of Brian Wilson and John Hay we have found out WHAT an EnTA is, HOW an EnTA works, WHEN it can be used and WHY it should be APPLIED.

For us, the trainers and resource persons, this workshop has been as much a learning experience as it has been for you. The workbook and primer we used are both new and were tested for the first time in this workshop. I think we have been successful in drawing important experience from how to use the training material and how to form future workshops to maximize their efficiency and value for the participants. This we completely owe you, the participants and resource persons, our sincere appreciation.

EnTA is in many ways a new tool. It does not belong to the buzz-words of "ISO 14000, Environmental Impact Assessments, Waste Minimization or Cleaner Production". But it is nevertheless an important tool and I am personally convinced that it will not be long before it is a very common and widely applied tool - maybe even more so than e.g. EIA and ISO 14000, since EnTA is a much more convenient and easy-to-use tool.

But it is also important to remember that the EnTA is just that - a tool. You can not build a house only with the help of a hammer, and you cannot make an investment decision only based on an EnTA. You need other tools. You need to know a bit more about the economics of the investment, and you need to know about other implications that may not be included in the EnTA. What the EnTA tool does provide, however, is a wide array of information and means of comparing the information of different alternatives. And as you cannot build a house only with a hammer, you cannot either build a house without the hammer. The EnTA is essential and I hope you will all use and promote the use of EnTA when you come back home after this workshop.

I would also like to take the opportunity to extend UNEP's thanks to all those that have made this workshop a success: to our two trainers: Brain Wilson and John Hay, to our resource persons Ulrich Hoffman, Carlos Frias, Olivia de o'Castillo, Teofila Echavia Remotigue, Reinhard Gleis and Edmundo Esguerra. On a more institutional level I, of course, want to extend our thanks to the International Lead Management Center and to Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft. They provided the main part of the budget for this workshop and made this not only a training event but a training event in a comfortable context. I think you will also all join me in thanking the Philippine Recyclers Inc., their staff and especially their president Mr. Jacob Tagorda and the General manager, Mr. Irving C. Guerrero, who showed us such a truly Philippine fashion hospitality during our visit to their recycling plant. Finally I would like to thank the most important persons at this workshop: you, the participants! Without you there would have been no workshop and without this particular group of participants the workshop would not have been as successful as it was. To all of you I extend UNEP's and my personal thanks!

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