INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK PROMOTES CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES



Industrial activities, in many Latin America and the Caribbean countries, have caused dangerously high levels of emissions pollution that often result in the deterioration of the environment and of the living conditions of the population. To disseminate cleaner production, which includes pollution prevention and waste minimization, a key element to industrial environmental management, the Inter-American Development Bank has promoted in Sao Paulo, last October, a "training-of-trainers" course on Ecologically Sustainable Industrial Development . The course has been attended by technicians from 16 countries and has used a methodology developed from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). Representants of the various countries will replicate the course in their homeland, so is expected to have trained more than 600 professionals in industrial clean production techniques and pollution control in a few months. The initiative have proved to be very successful and will be followed by other similar by with the IADB expect to promote sustainable industrial development in accordance with Agenda 21 through the dissemination of knowledge, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of industrial management and by incorporating environmental criteria into industrial production. The Sao Paulo course was a event gathered with Switzerland cooperation and the Inter-American Association on Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (AIDIS).

Last updated: 01/16/07