Island countries in the Pacific face very specific challenges when it comes to energy security. With a limited supply of domestic fossil fuels, they have historically depended on imported fuels like diesel for their electricity production and transportation. Add the region’s remoteness and size to that scenario and the result …
A UN body has asked India to modify a Rs 6,000-crore cluster development scheme for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), making them shoulder corporate social responsibilities, including environment-related issues. The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) suggested the government that it should
CM offers to review CLU, EDC charges While a lot has been reported about the new industrial policy drafted by the UNIDO, what's not come to light so far is that the report also points to the need for bringing in certain policy reforms, mainly doing away with free power. …
Shishir Prashant Indian watermills are all set to get international recognition thanks to the joint efforts of the central government and HESCO, a Dehra dun-based NGO, towards roping in United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDPO), headquartered in Vienna. UNIDO has agreed to set up an international watermill hub in Uttarakhand, …
Bs Reporter / New Delhi September 30, 2008, 0:48 ISTIndia should aim to generate a fifth of its capacity expansion in the current plan period (2007-12) from renewable energy to avoid climate change effects, said United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Unido).
NEW DELHI: The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) said here on Thursday that climate change was likely to have a greater impact on India compared to other countries similarly positioned, on account of the unique combination of its geography, diverse population characteristics and extremely high carbon-related energy dependence. According …
UNIDO report puts Singapore on top NEW DELHI: India trails behind 40 other countries, including Thailand, Malta and Malaysia, in the field of industrial competitiveness, according to a report by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). In its industrial development scoreboard, UNIDO has ranked India 41st out of 100 …
India has signed $42 million "Country Programme India 2008-2012' with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) to strengthen the competitiveness and productivity of its industrial enterprises, with a special focus on employment generation and the greening of industry. The five-year flagship programme, signed by the Department of Industrial Policy …
In an effort to reduce the production and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) pesticides from polluting the atmosphere and harming human lives, India has initiated a National Implementation Plan. Being a signatory to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, a national plan sensitising different stakeholders about the obligations …
New Delhi, Apr 9 An ambitious and innovative four-year project, which aims at strengthening India's role as a leader in the world cane and bamboo industry, was launched here on Wednesday by the Union minister for the development of northeastern region, Mani Shankar Aiyar, at a function in the presence …
Add value to your agricultural produce if you want to survive in the globalised market. Countries with inefficient agro-industries are likely to be left behind those with modern and efficient agroindustries. While high-income countries add, on an average, $180 of value by processing one tonne of agricultural products, developing countries …
people in West Bengal are highly susceptible to arsenic poisoning because of their food habits, states a report of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (unido). According to it, the chemical gets concentrated in the roots of vegetables that form a big part of Bengalis' diet. "Liquid pulses and potato …
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Industrial Deve lopment Organisation (UNIDO) have launched a new website on the cost-effective means of phasing out the extremely toxic and ozone depleting pesticide, methyl bromide. The website www.uneptie.org/ unido-harvest provides information on the experiences and results of projects aimed at phasing …
The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has planned to launch 49 projects to phase out 5,000 metric tonne of ozone depleting substances (ODS) in 27 developing countries, including India. The Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for Implementation of the Montreal Protocol (MP) has approved an amount of US …
Supply of clean fresh water, already threatened by soaring pollution levels, is depleting at such a rate in some regions that within 30 years two-thirds of humanity will suffer "moderate to severe water stress". This gloomy prediction has been made by a forthcoming UN report titled Comprehensive Assessment of the …
THIS UNIDO study is an useful data source on the world's pharmaceutical industry and has been used in the World Development Report, 1993. The UNIDO data files on this often secretive industry are indispensable and form the basis of much of the analysis in this book. The authors note that …
CLEAN manufacturing technology is governed by the "prevention is better than cure" dictum. End-of-the-pipe strategies for controlling pollution can never be as cost-effective as waste abatement programmes, which reduce effluents by simply increasing efficiency. Clean manufacturing processes need not use high-technology; they could involve practical approaches to manufacturing which cut …
