Stories
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 ...
Intelligent industry and narrowing the gender gap
04 January 2022 | By: Cecilia Ugaz Estrada
There is a risk that intelligent technologies and smart intelligent products could perpetuate or even amplify inequalities if they are not designed in a way that takes account of the different ...
COVID-19 in Iran: safe disposal of medical waste
10 December 2021 | By: Charles ARTHUR
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, the number of hospital patients has increased significantly, as in other countries, and the generated medical waste has put an extra burden on ...
06 December 2021 | By: Lorena Lamas, Manuel Albaladejo and Paula Mirazo
Major transitions should leave no one behind, and the transition to renewable energy should be no exception.
06 December 2021
As the global climate gets hotter, there is an ever greater need for refrigeration. But the more we chill food and drinks in fridges and cool our rooms with air-conditioning, the hotter the air ...
South Africa's capacity to deploy Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies post-COVID-19
20 November 2021
Despite South Africa’s declared interest in taking a lead role in the implementation of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies on the continent, an analysis of the country’s innovation system and ...
What is an energy management system?
09 November 2021 | By: Charles ARTHUR
An energy management system (EnMS) is a framework for energy consumers, including industrial, commercial and public sector organizations, to manage their energy use.
Women promoting agro-product safety along the value chain in rural China
08 November 2021 | By: Charles ARTHUR
As part of the Improving agro-industrial practice and capacity for poverty alleviation in Quannan project, which began in early 2019, UNIDO has transformed the rapid-testing rooms in Quannan’s farmers ...
The COVID-19 crisis and digital transformation: what impacts on gender equality?
08 November 2021 | By: UNIDO
The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated digital transformation, unearthing new challenges for the achievement of gender equality in labour markets.
After COVID-19: “Net Zero” anxieties on Africa’s Copperbelt and Savannah
03 November 2021 | By: UNIDO
While African countries, among the lowest greenhouse gas emitters in the world, welcome the bold measures taken so far by the international community to assuage climate change, anxiety about the ...
20 October 2021 | By: UNIDO
土耳其通过促进无害环境的生物能源产业发展，可以减少对进口煤炭、石油和天然气的依赖，并减少有害的温室气体排放。
The COVID-19 pandemic and the call for innovation policies in the health sector
19 October 2021 | By: Julia Paranhos, associate professor at the Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IE/UFRJ), Brazil
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the importance of well-defined, long-term industrial and STI policies aimed at mitigating the risks associated with innovative activities that target unmet public ...
