The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is implementing projects with natural substances as HCFC replacements across the world - from China and the Gulf countries to the Gambia and Viet Nam. On 3-4 June 2013, UNIDO shared knowledge acquired with regards to the implementation of such projects with the 150 participants gathered in Vienna for the two-day “UNIDO ATMOsphere Technology Summit”. + VIDEO

“As a UN agency we have to be technology neutral, but I also strongly believe that it is our duty and mandate to promote new technologies for the benefit of the developing countries”, stressed Sidi Menad Si Ahmed, Director of the Montreal Protocol Branch, UNIDO, who introduced the underlying rationale for organising the UNIDO ATMOsphere Technology Summit during the opening session in Vienna, Austria, on 3 June 2013.

UNIDO’s current portfolio of activities covers 76 countries

Ákos Kőszegváry, Industrial Development Officer at UNIDO’s Montreal Protocol Branch provided an overview of the organisation’s activities as an Implementing Agency of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. UNIDO currently has ongoing projects in 76 countries across Africa, the Arab region, Asia Pacific, and Europe and the Newly Independent States.

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