28 November 2012
A Kenyan firm that uses recycled plastic to manufacture durable and environmentally friendly fencing posts.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Cartier Women’s Initiative Award, Cécile Ney, Charles Kalama, ecopost, fencing, Good Business, green industry, Industrial Development, injection moulding, Kenya, lorna rutto, Making It magazine, nairobi, plastic, plastic extrusion technology, recycled, red cedar trees, timber posts, UNIDO, United Nations Environment Programme, waste
24 August 2011
Hedda Oehlberger-Femundsenden argues that UNIDO’s Green Industry initiative can build on the successes of globalization, while helping to rectify its shortcomings
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agriculture, Brazil, Brundtland Commission, capitalism, China, climate change, collective, competition, conflict, democratic deliberation, development, economic arrangements, economic crisis, emerging market economy, energy, environment, financial, fuel, g20, germany, Global, global commons, global ecosystem, global warming, globalization, governance, green industry, greenhouse gas emission, growth, Hedda Oehlberger-Femundsenden, imbalance, India, individualism, Industrial Development, industry, inequality, institutions, International, issue 7, Japan, legitimacy, macroeconomic, Making It, Malaysia, market, nation state, opportunities, paradox, policy, political economy, politics, pollution, poverty, productivity, regulation, Republic of Korea, resources, rio+20, Singapore, social cohesion, sovereignty, stabilization, subsidies, sustainability, technology transfer, trade, trade capacity building, UN, UN Commission on Sustainable Development, UNCSD 2012, UNEP, UNIDO, United Nations, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Millennium Summit, unrest, World Commission on Environment and Development, world economy
31 January 2011
The importance of renewable energy relative to conventional energy sources is clear, but to what extent is the drive to develop clean energy a preserve of developed countries?
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Argentina, biogas, biomas, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Brazil, charcoal, China, clean energy, Colobia, communication, conventional, cooking, Costa Rica, developed, developing, development, dung, Ecuador, Egypt, electric grid, electricity, energy, Ethiopia, Europe, geography, Ghana, Global Wind Energy Council, heat, India, Indonesia, industry, investment, Jordan, Kenya, kerosene, Kutch wind farm, Kuwait, latin america, lighting, Making It magazine, Mexico, Middle East, moern, Morocco, North Africa, Pakistan, Peru, photovoltaics, plan, policy, pollution, power capacity, pv, remote areas, REN21, renewable energy, Renewables 2010 Global Status Report, Republic of Korea, resources, rural, services, solar, South Africa, straw, Sub-Saharan Africa, sugar-derived ethanol, sustainable, Tanzania, technology, Thailand, the Philippines, the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, Tunisia, Tuvalu, UN, UNEP, UNIDO, United Nations, United Nations Environment Programme, Uruguay, wind power plants, wood
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