Thematic Components
Renewable Energy
Given the growing gap in demand and supply of energy, renewable energy has assumed a critical role in the energy supply chain in meeting the rising demand for energy, especially by industry in the developing countries.
Industrial Energy Efficiency and Climate Change
The programme component seeks to improve industrial energy efficiency by contributing to the transformation of markets for energy-efficient products and services. To this end, it promotes the use of energy management standards, accelerated investments by industries in energy system optimizationmeasures, and the increased deployment of new energy-efficient industrial technologies through technical, financial and policy advisory services.
Energy Policy and Partnership
The development of a sustainable, long-term solution to meeting the world’s energy needs is a defining issue of our time. Energy is directly linked with the key global challenges that the world faces - poverty alleviation, climate change, and global, environmental and food security. Energy policies and partnerships play an essential role in tackling these challenges.
Cleaner and Sustainable Production
Environmental protection in enterprises has been undergoing structural changes in recent years. The emphasis has shifted to preventive techniques that focus on the production processes themselves, avoiding the formation of waste or pollution in the first place or recycling it straight away to some productive purpose.
Water Management
As developing countries develop their industrial base, the levels of water consumption by the industrial sector will increase as will the amounts and toxicity of the effluents it discharges to water bodies. This will particularly critical in many developing countries, which are already suffering from shortages of water, shortages which might get worse with climate change.
Montreal Protocol
There is a need to phase out production and the consumption of ozone-depleting substances (ODS), which are leading to the continuing degradation of human health and the natural environment. The Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol provide a response to that need.
Stockholm Convention
There is a commitment on the part of Governments that are parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) to implement legal, organizational and environmental management measures, including substantive technological changes, in order to comply with therequirements of the Convention.
Regional Priorities, Funds Mobilization and Partnerships
The various technical components of Energy and Environment Programme will be implemented to varying degrees and in varying combinations in all of the regions falling within the scope of UNIDO’s technical cooperation activities. This programme component will serve to focus these activities in line with national needs and the coordinated responses agreed upon through the CCA/UNDAF and PRSP processes.
