UNIDO Cleaner Production Expert Group Meeting, Cleaner Production in 2015
Grand Hotel Sauerhof, Baden - Austria, 29-31 October 2006
More than 50 experts from 27 countries participated in the UNIDO Cleaner Production Expert Group Meeting to discuss the new strategy for the Cleaner Production Programme for the upcoming years. The participants were representing different institution and organization involved in the implementation of Cleaner Production activities worldwide and included National Cleaner Production Centres (NCPCs), National Cleaner Production Programmes (NCPPs), governmental institutions, donor institutions, consulting companies, private sector companies, international organizations, financial institutions, UNIDO.
The meeting was opened by a speech of the Director of the UNIDO Energy and Cleaner Production Branch, Mr. Leuenberger, and a representative of the Austrian Ministry of Environment, Ms. Helga Schrott. The Chief of the UNIDO Cleaner Production Unit, Ms. Mayra Sanchez Osuna, presented an overview of the activities and results of the CP Programme since 1994. These results were underlined also by the focal point for UNEP's CP activities, Mr. Niclas Svenningsen.
The meeting was developed around four major topics, which were discussed in working groups
and covered the focus of the future UNIDO Cleaner Production strategy:
- Mainstreaming of CP: macro and micro level, policies and partners needed
- Sustainability of NCPCs and NCPPs: political, structural, management criteria, enabling activities
- New challenges and activities for CP (CP +)
- Networking at regional, national and international level: minimum requirements
for NCPCs and NCPPs, value added of networking.
As an input for the discussion in the working groups two keynote speakers and four experts
reported their experience in the four main topics.
The outcome of the discussions of the working groups, presented during the meeting and available
in the presentations, constitute an important contribution for the elaboration of the strategy
for the International CP Programme for the up-coming years until 2015.
Meeting documents: