The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Government of Japan and UNIDO organized the Tokyo Green Industry Conference (TGIC) 2011 on 16-18th November 2011 at the Tokyo Big Sight Conference Centre in Tokyo, Japan. The TGIC aimed to highlight the availability of environmental and resource conservation techniques and practices that are good for business, environment and climate, employees, communities and consumers. The TGIC provided a platform to discuss policy and business solutions for achieving the widespread uptake of today’s proven techniques and technologies and for enabling innovation to deliver longer term solutions that would enable even greater reductions in resource use and pollution intensity. Through related activities organized in collaboration with the INCHEM 2011 environmental technology exhibition, TGIC also provided opportunities to match environmental technology needs of participating developing countries with the international supply of Best Available Techniques (BAT) and Best Environmental Practices (BEP). The Green Industry initiative was launched in Asia at the 2009 Manila Green Industry Conference, hosted by the Government of the Philippines and co-organized by UNIDO in close partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
