Shaping the future of industry for sustainable development.

 

To ensure that industry better serves both current and future needs, three interrelated issues need to be addressed: 

1. The sourcing and production of industrial goods must be based on principles of sustainability, ensuring social and environmental compatibility and focusing on local value addition; 

2. Food security for all must be ensured by expanding agro-industry that taps into new sources of food, producing safe foods with higher nutritional value and where there is more space for the generation of local content in developing countries, and 

3. The production and use of energy in industry needs to be ‘greened’ and the impacts of energy and industrial production on the environment must be minimized.