At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, will come together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet to get to the future we want.
At Rio+20, UNIDO will focus on tangible actions and initiatives enabling the global transition to green economy through greening industrialization and building green industries in developing countries and economies in transition.
UNIDO is an organizer of the following events:
Green Chemistry
UNIDO with UNGC
16 June 2012, 14:00-15:30, Windsor Barra Hotel
This seminar will raise awareness, promote and advance the application of green chemistry for sustainable production and consumption and protection of human health and the environment. Speakers will highlight current applications of green chemistry, success stories, and new challenges. The seminar will encourage the formation of international partnerships between government, business, academia and NGOs, to advance the safe development, application, use and management of chemicals in industrial processes.
Launch of Green Industry Platform
UNIDO with UNEP, UNGC
16 June 2012, 16:00-17:30, Windsor Barra Hotel
The launch of major global multi-stakeholder platform to help mainstream environmental, climate and social considerations into the operations of enterprises around the world. The Green Industry Platform unites businesses, government and civil society for the chance to work together on equal footing to green existing industries, create new green industries, strengthen the global policy agenda, and develop an action agenda for Green Industry internationally. By creating economic growth and jobs, using resources more efficiently and with less pollution, Green Industry contributes directly to making rapid progress towards sustainable development and poverty alleviation. This event will officially launch the Green Industry Platform and announce its Advisory Board and signatories.
Resource Efficiency and Enterprise Competitiveness
The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation with UNIDO, IFC
17June 2012, 11:00-12:30, Windsor Barra Hotel
This event illustrates how RECP continuously applies as an integrated preventive environmental strategy to processes, products and services, which increases overall efficiency and reduces risks to human health and the environment. The event will address the financing needs of the manufacturing sector as it seeks to become more resource efficient and reduce its carbon emissions, and as it benefits from the growing market for green products and services. Cleaner
technology and technology transfer aspects related specifically to energy efficiency and climate change mitigation will be central to the event.
The Resource Efficiency Revolution: Decoupling for Change
UNEP with UNIDO
17 June 2012, 14:00-15:30, Windsor Barra Hotel
Both progress achieved and exisiting challenges for the transformation to a low-carbon economy are the focus of this seminar, particularly from the perspective of the manufacturing sector, including small- and medium-size enterprises.
Do We Need a Green Industrial Policy?
UNIDO with UN ECLAC, WB, GDI, the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade
17 June 2012, 13:30-15:00, Rio Center: T-3
The event will focus on industrial policy for greening growth, and how to widen the scope of traditional industrial policy to incorporate environmental objectives that make industrial development not only economically and socially, but also environmentally, sustainable. Topics will include possible synergies and trade-offs between industrial policy objectives and measures oriented to industrial growth, employment generation and environmental impact. Strategic directions for industrial development, including addressing the sustainability of emerging sectors, will be at the forefront of discussion. The event aims to identify policies on industrial technical change towards more environmentally friendly paths, including improving industrial energy efficiency. The session will include a presentation of UNIDO’s 2011 Industrial Development Report, “Industrial Energy Efficiency for Sustainable Wealth Creation”.
Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development
FIESP, FIRJAN, UNIDO, Eletrobras, ITAIPU Binacional, Ministry of Energy, Roberto Marinho Foundation, UNICA, Rio City Hall
19 June 2012, 9:00-17:05, Forte de Copacabana
This all-day event on renewable energy will include four different modules addressing the topics of renewable energy for sustainable development, biogas, hydro-energy and biofuels. UNIDO’s contribution will focus on decentralized renewable energy generation and consumption, providing insights into the key challenges facing the deployment of renewable energies. UNIDO will also address the potentials of sustainable energy solutions in contributing to employment creation and poverty alleviation. In addition, the event will include the launch of the International Center of Renewable Energy Biogas, in the framework of the Observatory for Renewable Energy for Latin America and the Caribbean. The event takes place in the context of the major event, “Humanidades 2012”.
Mitigating Climate Change through the Montreal Protocol
UNIDO
19 June 2012, 11:30-13:00, Athletes Park
UNIDO’s activities for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol are aligned with the Green Industry concept and aim to protect the ozone layer by taking measures to control—and ultimately trying to eliminate—total global production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances on the basis of developments in scientific knowledge and technological innovation.
Exhibition of Japanese Environmentally Friendly Technologies
UNIDO with the Government of Japan
13-24 June 2012, 11:00-19:00 (Weekdays), 10:00-19:00 (Weekends), Athletes Park: Japan Pavilion
UNIDO, in cooperation with the Government of Japan, will showcase a selection of innovative environmental technologies, identified under the Green Industry initiative. The selected technologies are being promoted as part of UNIDO’s technical cooperation programme portfolio, including the Montreal Protocol, energy efficiency and cleaner production. The technologies are ready to be transferred to other countries to help them cope with environmental problems. The exhibition will also raise participants’ awareness of UNIDO’s technical cooperation activities under the Green Industry initiative.
For more information, please visit http://www.uncsd2012.org.
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