08 August 2022 | By: Charles Arthur
The transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient economy requires systemic changes that will result not only in new products and services but also in changes in production processes and business ...
Stories
UNIDO-UN Women Programme boosts women's economic empowerment in Egypt
26 July 2022
The Rabeha – meaning “winner” in Arabic – programme is jointly run by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and UN Women Egypt. It aims at enhancing the economic wellbeing of ...
Women, SMEs and sustainable development – lessons learnt for the road ahead
06 July 2022 | By: Cecilia Ugaz Estrada, Carmen Schuber
GCIP Relaunch: Empowering Cleantech Innovators for a Greener Future
01 July 2022 | By: Daria Shumilova
Cleantech entrepreneurship helps address climate change by developing and deploying transformative innovative solutions. The Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP) of UNIDO and the GEF unleashes ...
Working together on global supply chains can help prevent climate disaster
02 June 2022 | By: Gerd Müller
Global production networks provide us with a range of opportunities to accelerate transitioning to a net-zero world.
Helping developing countries get up to speed on food safety standards
26 April 2022 | By: UNIDO
Contaminated food causes 600 million cases of foodborne disease a year and over 400,000 deaths, demonstrating the clear connection between food safety and public health. Yet the importance of food ...
Bringing fresh thinking to development challenges through partner consultations
21 April 2022 | By: UNIDO
Tackling these urgent development challenges in an era of rising global instability will demand ever more innovative and collaborative solutions. This means fresh thinking, and more flexible, ...
16 April 2022 | By: Mashrou3i
Imen Jabli is a female leader in a traditionally male-dominated industry who is promoting more effective climate action
SDG 9 gets a push in Latin America with new UNIDO industrialization Accelerator
15 April 2022
A new United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) accelerator aims to speed action on Sustainable Development Goal 9 (SDG 9) in Latin America’s middle-income countries, many of which ...
Investment in clean energy via UNIDO's Brazil biogas project
11 March 2022 | By: Charles Arthur
The Kist and Froelich farm was one of seven biogas plants selected as innovative models to demonstrate the merits of biogas.
Teacher’s journey in promoting renewable energy-related research and development
05 March 2022 | By: Sovannary Ky
As a female teacher in the domain of science and technology, Vong Pisey is so content and proud to work in this field. She has always had the strong desire to support and encourage more women to get ...
16 February 2022
In order to remain competitive and participate in global value chains, SMEs should seize opportunities to collaborate and adopt sustainable water management practices, which would otherwise be cost ...
With UNIDO's help, China stops production of hazardous chemical
31 January 2022 | By: Charles Arthur
China ends the production, use, import and export of HBCD, an organic compound containing bromine used as a flame retardant in external thermal insulation foam.
Leveraging 4IR to “formalize” the informal economy - the COVID-19 imperative
28 January 2022
COVID-19 has opened up new perspectives for leveraging 4IR, in particular linking the informal with the formal sector as well as last mile delivery.
UNIDO: Leveraging GEF investment to achieve global environmental benefits
26 January 2022 | By: Stephan Sicars
The UNIDO-GEF partnership is unique within the global action agenda. Within its mandate for inclusive and sustainable industrial development, UNIDO utilizes the GEF financing to achieve GEBs by ...
Uday Pride: bringing quality to thinking, work and systems in India's automotive component sector
13 January 2022 | By: Charles Arthur and Sophie Nedlin
Albert Einstein once said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
With their own businesses and as workers, Egypt’s women can be winners
12 January 2022 | By: Charles Arthur and Navjot Kaur
Apprenticeship schemes to support post-COVID employment recovery in Africa’s manufacturing sector
06 January 2022 | By: Abiodun Egbetokun, Science Policy and Innovation Studies Department, National Centre for Technology Management, Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Nigeria
COVID-induced income and job losses in Africa are high, especially in the manufacturing sector and among young people. Formal apprenticeship may represent a viable tool for post-COVID employment ...