ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is the specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalization and environmental sustainability. The mandate of UNIDO is to promote and accelerate inclusive and sustainable industrial development in developing countries and economies in transition.

The responsibility of UNIDO’s Department of Environment (ENV) is to contribute to inclusive and sustainable industrial development by improving the environmental performance, resource productivity and safety of existing, as well as by supporting the creation of new industries providing environmental goods and services. This assignment will contribute to the activities undertaken under the Industrial Resource Efficiency Division (IRE) within ENV.

PROJECT CONTEXT

The TEST integrated approach combines proven preventive environmental approach and productivity technique in Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) and managements tools such as Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) and Environmental Management System (EMS). TEST improves all pillars of sustainable industrial development. It increases the economic performance of the company through saving of resources and improved productivity by implementing RECP while EMA identifies the environmental cost and provides justification for the RECP project and EMS ensures the environmental policy is in place. Concretely, the TEST methodology helps companies save raw materials, fresh water and energy consumption, better chemical management, improvement of efficiency and safety of boilers, which will have a direct impact on both quantity and toxicity of GHG emission and discharge of wastewater and solid waste while improving the productivity and working conditions in companies.