SAN JOSÉ – During the roundtable on green industry on 14 June at the High-level Conference of Middle-Income Countries, the Brazil-based company, Braskem S.A., announced its plan to join the UNIDO-UNEP-led Green Industry Platform, becoming the first from that country to do so. Braskem was represented at the conference by Jorge Soto, the Director of Sustainable Development. Soto expressed the…
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First Brazilian company commits to join the Green Industry Platform
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Green growth at the Vienna Energy Forum
VIENNA – Panelists from the public and private sector sat together today to discuss a range of topics on a changing paradigm toward renewable energy and energy resources, including rural versus urban access to energy, energy efficiency in manufacturing processes, technology investment, and even the future of transportation. “Productive use of materials, water and other resources in society is an…
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Participants at Paris Forum call for shift from labour to resource productivity
Participants at an international forum taking place in the French capital today, who included government officials, representatives of international and non-governmental organizations, and the private sector, said that green growth was the path to follow to achieve a global transition to a Green Economy and a more sustainable mode of development for all. They called for a shift away from…
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European Union Issues Manifesto for a Resource Efficient Europe
On 14 December 2012, the European Resource Efficiency Platform (EREP), a high-level advisory group to the European Commission, convened for its second plenary meeting to discuss circular economy, greening the economy, setting objectives and measuring progress and framework conditions for investments in resource efficiency within the European Union. The group issued a Manifesto which sets out key priorities for the…
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Green industry boosts profits and decouples growth – The Indian Express
In an interview from 9 December 2012 in the Indian Express, UNIDO Director-General, Kandeh K. Yumkella, discusses the Green Industry Platform, as well as investing in green energy. Read the full interview here.
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Can the UN convene a green industry revolution?
This article appeared on 27 November 2012 in Ethical Corporation. * by Paul Hohnen A new United Nations initiative – the Green Industry Platform – has the tough task of cutting manufacturing’s environmental impacts, but has some high-level support Revolution is in the air. Industrial revolution at least. Two recent statements from two very different sources suggest that changes in the…
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Green Industry Platform Advisory Board announced
The membership of the advisory board for the Green Industry Platform – a global, multi-stakeholder initiative launched by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) – was announced today during a high-level panel discussion on mainstreaming and scaling up sustainability practices in global manufacturing. The board is composed of the Governments of Colombia, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines and Poland; the…
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UNIDO chief: EU an active partner in energy access
The United Nations is committed to sustainable development to promote wealth creation and structural change in developing economies. This includes expanding access to energy, says Kandeh K. Yumkella of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Kandeh K. Yumkella is director-general of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, based in Vienna. He was interviewed by EurActiv Slovakia’s Lenka Ferencakova. * Sustainable…
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Reasons to be both hugely disappointed and very excited
Sustainability specialist, Paul Hohnen, answers questions about ‘greenwash’, sustainable development, and what governments and the UN need to do to save the planet. He wrote: This is our best hope of delivering, not only the continued development and economic growth needed for poverty alleviation and job creation, but also of preserving and restoring the ecosystems on which our collective future depends.…
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The Guardian: ‘global Green Industry Platform seems promising’
The future we want will only be achieved if it is built with green industry through cross-sector collaboration, says Paul Hohnen, in today’s Guardian. He wrote: As a multistakeholder platform, it is also consistent with Rio’s support for public/private partnerships and for greater efforts to help developing countries making the transition to a resource efficient economy. Being a voluntary initiative,…
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- First Brazilian company commits to join the Green Industry Platform
- Green growth at the Vienna Energy Forum
- Participants at Paris Forum call for shift from labour to resource productivity
- European Union Issues Manifesto for a Resource Efficient Europe
- Green industry boosts profits and decouples growth – The Indian Express
