MaximsNewsNetwork: UNIDO CONFERENCE on INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT in VIENNA

MaximsNewsNetwork: 07 December 2009 - UNIDO: The President of Iceland and the Prime Ministers of Kenya, Lesotho and Tanzania are among the high ranking officials from around the world attending the 5-day General Conference of UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) in Vienna. This year's thematic focus is on "green industries" and the opportunities they offer for developing countries in the current economic circumstance.

Kandeh K. Yumkella of Sierra Leone was today re-appointed for a second term as the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) during the Organizations General Conference, Thirteenth Session.
The event in Vienna, held from 7 to 11 December, was being attended by Heads of State and Government, including the President of Iceland, the Prime Ministers of Kenya, Lesotho and Tanzania, and other high-ranking officials from around the world. Senior representatives of international organizations are also taking part.
Speaking about the future of UNIDO, Yumkella said he would continue to make sure the Organization was a trusted, efficient and effective partner for development.
Yumkella indicated that climate change was a major challenge conditioning developing prospects and the quality of life. We need global co-operation. Carbon has no passport. Carbon released from one place goes somewhere else. he said.
In the past four years, UNIDO has also strengthened its normative function, helping to find common global standards that nations can agree to, for example on industrial energy efficiency, and corporate social responsibility.
Kenyas Prime Minister, Raila Odinga said that Africa contributed less than three percent of global green house gas emissions, and added that Africa was bearing the greatest burden of climate change.
Tanzanias Prime Minister, Mizengo Pinda said that the curent economic crisis was another reminder another reminder that we live in a global village, and he added that it was an imperative that the international community master it together to address global challenges.
Iceland Presidents Olafur Grimsson said that there were about one hundred countries in the world that had a considerable geo thermal potential and most of theses countries were in the developing world; Grimsson said that those could get from Iceleand both an inspiration and concrete practical lessons.

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[musiciankara]

africa will never develop thanks to regulation on co2 usage.good tactic making an african a president of UN.