www.unido.org General Conference 16th Session 30 November – 4 December 2015, Vienna, Austria Sustainable industrialization for shared prosperity UNIDO focusing on Sustainable Development Goals #SDG9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation. Contents General Conference Overview 3 Snapshot of Side Events 24 Highlights from Keynote Speeches 4 UNIDO Open Data Platform 27 The Conference in Pictures 10 Introducing UNIDO Goodwill Ambassador, Janne Vangen Solheim, Fourth UNIDO Forum on Inclusive and Norway 27 Sustainable Industrial Development 12 The Least Developed Countries Second Donor Meeting 15 Ministerial Conference 28 UNIDO’s Cooperation with the General Conference Outcomes 30 European Union and the European Investment Bank 22 Looking Forward 32 2 General Conference Overview Vienna, Austria Partnership (PCP). The PCP is being General Conference Overview piloted in Ethiopia and Senegal and has just been extended to Peru. During the Conference, participants agreed that: Sustainable • UNIDO’s thematic priorities fully reflect the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development; Industrialization for • The Organization’s role will be pivotal in implementing Goal 9 and the 2030 Agenda; Shared Prosperity • UNIDO is well equipped to deliver on the SDGs to eradicate poverty, create jobs, combat environmental degradation and promote sustainable economic growth; The sixteenth session of the General “important role of UNIDO in providing • The Organization offers valuable Conference of the United Nations decent livelihoods, especially in those services which are, inter alia, helping Industrial Development Organization countries from which we are now to tackle the root causes of migration (UNIDO) took place in Vienna, Austria, receiving refugees”. by supporting job creation. from 30 November to 4 December 2015. The theme of this year’s biennial event Promoting equitable, inclusive Other key events during the was ‘Sustainable Industrialization for and sustainable development Conference included: Shared Prosperity’. Over 800 participants One of the highlights of the Conference • A meeting between UNIDO attended the Conference, including was a keynote speech by Nobel-prize Director General LI Yong and the government officials, representatives winner in Economic Sciences, Joseph Vice-President of the European of all UNIDO Member States and Stiglitz, who underscored UNIDO’s call Investment Bank, Ambroise Fayolle. representatives from the private sector, for equitable, inclusive and sustainable The two institutions reaffirmed academia and the international media. development. their commitment to promoting inclusive and sustainable industrial The Conference was convened at a The Second UNIDO Donor Meeting development, particularly in Africa. defining moment in the history of global demonstrated the effectiveness • The launch of three publications: development cooperation, coming just of UNIDO’s technical assistance 1. A new report on the cooperation months after world leaders adopted interventions. The event highlighted between UNIDO and the European the Sustainable Development Goals the additional value that donors Union; 2. The new Oxford Handbook (SDGs). These 17 SDGs constitute the receive when resources invested in of Africa and Economics; and core of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable UNIDO’s projects are aligned with the 3. UNIDO’s flagship publication, the Development. United Nations (UN) Organization’s expertise and services. Industrial Development Report (IDR). Member States are expected to use • Three events held on the sidelines of the SDGs to frame their agendas and The Fourth UNIDO inclusive and the Conference addressing: political policies over the next 15 years. sustainable industrial development 1. The role of innovation hubs for (ISID) Forum offered a platform for sustainable industrialization and UNIDO’s mandate is to promote and participants to discuss multi-stakeholder shared prosperity; 2. Youth and accelerate inclusive and sustainable partnerships. The forum provided an women entrepreneurship; and industrial development (ISID) in order overview of the achievements to date of 3. Sustainable industrialization for to achieve shared prosperity and UNIDO’s new Programme for Country climate action. environmental sustainability around the world. The concept of ISID is included in Goal 9 of the SDGs, which calls “Voluntary contributions received from our donors reached their upon the international community to ”build resilient infrastructure, second-highest levels ever in 2014, when they were 110 per cent higher promote inclusive and sustainable than in the year 2000, and the full-year figure for 2015 is expected to industrialization and foster innovation”. be close to that for 2014. No less than 60 donor countries provide us with funding for the delivery of our services in technical cooperation, Austrian President Heinz Fischer research or global forum activities.” welcomed participants to the Conference, acknowledging the UNIDO Director General, LI Yong. 3 Highlights from Keynote Speeches Austria’s long-standing support for of the poorest and most vulnerable. • People stands for the eradication of UNIDO and the Organization’s contribution poverty and hunger. • Planet stands for the protection of the to the 2030 Agenda planet which is our environment. • Prosperity is a synonym for achieving Highlights of the opening address by the President of Austria, Heinz Fischer economic, social and technological progress. • Peace means fostering peaceful, just In accordance with this declaration, and inclusive societies which are free UNIDO began to position the concept from fear and violence. of inclusive and sustainable industrial All of these areas are interconnected development in all processes, leading and cannot be tackled separately. to the formulation of the post-2015 development agenda. Decoupling economic growth from negative environmental impact Providing decent livelihoods Austria takes the Sustainable In September 2015, at the Summit for Development Goals very seriously and the Adoption of the 2030 Agenda for is committed to their implementation. Sustainable Development in New York, The successful implementation of at which I had the honour to represent the Sustainable Development Goals Heinz Fischer, President of Austria, Austria, 17 Sustainable Development is intrinsically linked to UNIDO’s delivering opening remarks at the sixteenth Goals were adopted, among them contribution. One of the major session of the UNIDO General Conference. Goal 9: “Build resilient infrastructure, challenges for sustainable development promote inclusive and sustainable is decoupling economic growth from This Conference comes at the juncture industrialization and foster innovation”. negative environmental impact. With of four landmark anniversaries: The I would like to congratulate Director the new mandate for inclusive and 70th anniversary of the United Nations, General LI Yong for the important sustainable industrial development 60 years of Austrian Membership of the role he played during the negotiation contained in the 2030 Agenda, UNIDO is United Nations (UN); the soon upcoming process. His wisdom and management the agency best suited to link economic, 50th anniversary of the establishment of capability were a cornerstone to this social, and environmental aspects of UNIDO in Vienna; and finally, 30 years success. He is also very successfully industrial development. This is why of UNIDO’s transformation into a working on changing an output-oriented Austria strongly supports the UNIDO- specialized agency… .These anniversa- organization to an outcome-oriented UNEP Resource Efficient and Cleaner ries present a stock-taking opportunity, one, thereby underlining that the effects Production Strategy. Austria has funded but also a moment to look ahead… . of UNIDO’s technical-cooperation work this very successful programme since UNIDO was created in 1966 to promote are more important than how much its introduction in 1995 with more than and accelerate industrialization in money is spent. Recent developments US$12.3 million. developing countries. The eradication of underline the important role of UNIDO in absolute poverty through industrializa- providing decent livelihoods especially Over the last 20 years, Austria has tion was the main focus of UNIDO’s work in those countries from which we receive been one of UNIDO’s largest donors and in order to underline its importance now so many refugees. in absolute terms. Austria also for the work of the UN system, UNIDO continues to fully support UNIDO and became a specialized agency 30 years Partnership, People, Planet its programme activities, thereby ago. Since then, the Organization has Prosperity and Peace supporting its valuable contribution constantly evolved to adapt its strategies In this global agenda with its to the 2030 Agenda. At the same to tackle the challenges of sustainable 17 Sustainable Development Goals and time, we appreciate when recipient development in an ever changing world. its underlying 169 targets nobody is to countries show their commitment to the In the late 1990s, UNIDO reformed its be left behind and all countries have to Organization as well as ownership for agenda to adapt it to the Millennium work together to reach these ambitious their respective country programmes by Development Goals. targets over the next 15 years in the providing national input. International following areas: Partnership,