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Changing one life changes the world
25 July 2021
With the financial support of the Government of Japan and within the framework of its global Human Security efforts, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) promoted the social ...
G7 Summit: time to put women front and centre of the global economic recovery
06 July 2021 | By: Fatou Haidara, Managing Director, Directorate of Corporate Management and Operations, UNIDO, and Helen McEachern, Chief Executive Officer, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
The leaders of the G7 group of nations will soon gather in Cornwall, United Kingdom, to devise plans to ‘build back better’ from the COVID-19 pandemic. The summit takes place in the wake of a crisis ...
COVID-19 pandemic: threats to SMEs in poorest nations require swift policy action
22 June 2021 | By: Frank Hartwich and Jenny Larsen
Despite the overwhelming dominance of services in the world economy, the manufacturing sector continues to punch above its weight. It remains a main driver of the productivity growth needed to spur ...
New research shows food system is responsible for a third of global anthropogenic emissions
16 June 2021 | By: Charles ARTHUR
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Food System: Building the Evidence Base presents new estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the food system developed at the country level and integrating ...
Cleantech entrepreneurs driving a green recovery in Barbados
14 June 2021 | By: Borbala Csete and Andrea Eras Almeida
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Eastern Caribbean island nation, famed for its beautiful landscapes, pristine white-sand beaches and temperate climate, attracted around a million tourists each ...
Diversification: Tunisian company turns a crisis into an opportunity
13 May 2021 | By: UNIDO
When Createx, a company specializing in manufacturing clothes for export, lost its main client during the coronavirus crisis, it was the trigger to restructure
Protecting the ozone layer, protecting the Earth: Making air-conditioning safer
22 April 2021 | By: Charles ARTHUR
China has one of the world’s fastest growing domestic markets for air conditioners. This is reflected in the fact that, from 2000 to 2020, energy demand for space cooling in Chinese buildings ...
Manufacturing firms shouldn’t fear the true cost of fuel – here’s why
08 April 2021 | By: Nicola Cantore, Massimiliano Calì, Jenny Larsen, Juergen Amann, Valentin Todorov and Charles Fang Chin Cheng
Fresh UNIDO-led research in collaboration with the World Bank provides concrete evidence that removing fossil fuel subsidies would not only make environmental sense but would also improve firms’ ...
What’s so important about mini-grids?
30 March 2021 | By: Leisa Burrell
Six hundred million people living on the continent of Africa lack access to energy. These 600 million people need electricity to light their homes and to run their businesses.
La economía circular: un cambio de paradigma para soluciones globales
22 March 2021 | By: Por
La economía circular propone un modelo completamente distinto que conduce al crecimiento y al empleo sin comprometer el medio ambiente.
Strengthening women’s leadership role in Colombia’s artisanal gold mining sector
21 March 2021 | By: UNIDO
For the local population, mostly indigenous people and Afro-Colombians (descendants of enslaved Africans brought to the area by the Spanish colonizers), the artisanal and small-scale gold mining ...
Сохрани еду - сохрани планету!
15 March 2021 | By: Dana ZHMUDSKA
Пчелиный воск как альтернативна пластиковым пищевым упаковкам, загрязняющим экологию.
15 March 2021 | By: Dana ZHMUDSKA
Introducing the beeswax alternative to polluting plastic food wraps.
The sky is the limit: Sierra Leone’s ‘barefoot’ women solar engineers
05 March 2021 | By: Leisa Burrell
An initiative that started 50 years ago in India in a bid to empower rural, illiterate women has now spread to ninety-three countries around the world.
Sustainable fashion: UNIDO and Nudie Jeans to recycle second-quality jeans in Tunisia
25 February 2021 | By: Charles ARTHUR
Nudie Jeans, a global leader in sustainable fashion, is looking at ways to make use of second-quality jeans to maintain the highest quality of its products, while reducing the environmental impact of ...
Circular economy: a question of design
21 February 2021 | By: Kai Bethke and Stephan Sicars
The circular economy is the answer to looming resource scarcity and an overwhelming production of waste
Feasibility studies and analysis for sound investment
12 February 2021 | By: UNIDO
Developing and developed countries alike need properly prepared feasibility studies for taking sound investment decisions. In response to the growing interest in this issue, in 1978, UNIDO published ...
12 February 2021 | By: UNIDO
UNIDO's wood programme began in 1967 when efforts were made to show developing countries how to manufacture or process wooden products for export instead of simply exporting raw timber.
Romanian city cleans up with UNIDO's help
12 February 2021 | By: UNIDO
Copsa Mica was a town built around two factories, both spewing filth out of their smokestacks. One made the black carbon used in tyres. The other was a metal works. Together they had poisoned ...
Industrial free zones boost Mauritius' export-led manufacturing
12 February 2021 | By: UNIDO
To help developing countries and economies in transition accelerate industrial development and competitiveness, one of UNIDO's areas of focus is to provide them with policy advice.