Partnerships for Energy and Environment

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The flagship of the partnership between UNEP and UNIDO is the National Cleaner Production Centres (NCPC) Programme, which aims at achieving cost-effective reduction of environmental pollutants, improving efficiency of resource use and, to the extent possible, enhancing industrial productivity through cleaner production and the application of environmentally sound technologies. Today, the programme operates in 37 countries.

Global Environment Facility (GEF)
UNIDO is an implementing partner of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for projects related to ozone depletion, persistent organic pollutants and climate change. As a GEF implementation agency, UNIDO plays a key role in managing GEF projects on the ground by assisting eligible governments and NGOs in the development, implementation, and management of GEF projects.

Multilateral Fund (for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol)
Since UNIDO first assumed its role as implementing agency of the MLF of the Montreal Protocol in 1992, the Organization has assisted 85 developing countries and economies in transition to comply with their obligations. In all, UNIDO has implemented more than 600 projects and executed more than 500 non-investment activities. For the year 2008, UNIDO again achieved the top ranking for having the best performance of all implementing agencies according to the annual performance evaluation conducted by the Multilateral Fund (MLF) Secretariat.

UN Energy
Energy is a major cross-cutting challenge affecting all aspects of development, as well as climate change, economic growth and global security. To ensure cooperation and coherence among UN agencies with substantial energy portfolios, it was decided to create a coordination mechanism, UN-Energy. In 2007, the CEB nominated the Director-General of UNIDO to serve as chairman of this group, which draws its membership from twenty UN system organizations. In support of this, UNIDO has set about bolstering the work of UN-Energy to ensure a prompt and coherent system-wide response to the energy challenge in an increasingly compex and ever-changing global environment.