This International Guidelines for Industrial Parks address the industrial park’s planning and design, construction, operations, marketing & investment promotion, waste management, and energy management.
This study Unwrapping the Risks of Plastic Pollution to the Insurance Industry identifies how risks related to plastic pollution play out across insurance lines and asset classes in which insurers invest.
This report Aligning Development Co-operation and Climate Action: The Only Way Forward outlines how providers of development co-operation can make changes at home, in developing countries and in the international development co-operation system, to help create low-emissions, climate-resilient economies, and how they can avoid supporting activities that lock the world into an unsustainable future.
This new report series Renewables in Cities 2019 Global Status Report focuses specifically on the state of renewables in cities around the world and on the role of local action in the renewable energy transition.
Contributors to this issue of UNIDO’s Making It magazine look at the circular economy from a variety of angles, from Ken Webster’s introduction to systems thinking to Ewa Lewandowska’s argument for social equality to be included in the design of the new circular economy. The issue also takes a look at the design and re-design aspects of circularity, and introduces the Rizhao eco-industrial park, one of the best examples of the impact of Chinese government policies that encourage industrial symbiosis as part of its circular economy drive.
This Policy Brief looks at how circular economy can support EU climate policy, emphasizing that circular economy is more than just another ‘product standards’ policy. It calls for a framework that is able to systematically address trade-offs, a mechanism to steer and monitor progress, and the need to develop and then scale up successful products and processes to create opportunities for new value chains while addressing risks, such as dependency on raw materials.