"The multi-stakeholder Green Industry Platform represents a unique opportunity through which collaborative actions by government, business and civil society can help bring about transformational change in the manufacturing industry."

LI Yong, Director General, UNIDO

"To create platforms within our UN family that allow us to work with key sectors of our economy as a system is one of the objectives that not only we very much believe in, as leaders of our instiutions, but which also the Secretary-General has made one of the main tenets of his tenure."

Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UNEP

"We want to see concrete results coming out of Rio and this has the potential to be one of the most important. Looking at the momentum that is building up behind this initiative, I will encourage others to join us."

Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner for the Environment

"The Platform can help both your bottom line and the environment […] and I think other businesses can accept that."

David Hasanat, Chairman & CEO, ViyellaTex Group

“The Green Industry Platform offers a forum for governments and organizations to come together and improve outcomes for green industry, a necessity in today’s complex and resource-constrained world. We have joined because we know that the current barriers to a burgeoning green industry can be overcome with the right approach, commitment and investment.”

Jigar Shah, Executive Director, Institute for Industrial Productivity