The Green Industry Conference is being held in Thailand, October 3 to 5. The focus is on the opportunities green growth could yield for businesses and emerging economies. The event is exploring how the green industry can create jobs and economic opportunities to diversify the economy, while decreasing resource dependency and pollution. The aim of the conference is to scale-up and mainstream green industry policies, methods, and techniques throughout developing and transition-economy industries.
Over 400 participants have gathered, including high-level officials, representatives of the private sector, industry associations, academia and civil society to discuss how the concept of green industry helps countries achieve multiple development objectives.
Speakers from around the world are participating in sessions on the themes of green industrial policy, resource management and the circular economy, greening businesses and supply chains, clean technologies and innovative business models, and building green industry infrastructures of the future.
Held first in 2009, the Green Industry Conference is the premier global conference on green industry trends and practices organized every two years by UNIDO and partner organizations. Previous conferences were held in Korea, China, Japan and the Philippines.
Thailand has attached the highest priority to sustainable development and several key green industry projects and programs are currently underway, including green mining, productive eco-designs and eco-standards.
