UNIDO Launches Green Industry Platform at Rio+20

At Rio+20, UNIDO launched the Green Industry Platform, a global high-level multi-stakeholder partnership intended to act as a forum for catalysing, mobilizing and mainstreaming action on green industry around the world.

The Green Industry Platform will bring together governmental, business and civil society leaders. Already, it is supported by some 70 organizations, including national governments, businesses and international organizations. According to UNIDO DG, Kandeh K. Yumkella, the Platform is an exemplary for the public private partnerships that are needed to scale up and mainstream the greening of industrial development and the creation of green industry.

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