Today, Mr. Collen Vixen Kalapile as ECOSOC President, Ms. Gita Sabharwal as UN Resident Coordinator in Thailand and Mr. Stein Hansen as the Director &amp; UNIDO Representative led their colleagues to visit the project partners’ selected demonstration recycling facilities in Samut Prakarn, Thai Metal Aluminium Co., Ltd., respectively.&nbsp;In this occasion, Mr. Suchart Trisanrujira, Advisor to the Minister of Industry, with officers from Department of Primary Industries and Mines (DPIM) which is main executing project partner also affiliated with this visit for the factory tour of the demonstration of BAT/BEP in selected metal recycling facilities.

ECOSOC President visit the demonstrating facility in Samutprakarn province

Today is International Women's day, we would like to to take this opportunity to introduce an article related to industry and environment.This article draws on the key messages of a side-event of the 65th session on the Commission on the Status of Women organized by UNIDO and the Government of Finland, which celebrated women’s leadership for climate-neutral and circular industries. The article also references some of the findings of a recent Regional Academy on the United Nations (RAUN) study (2020) mentored by UNIDO, which conducted interviews with alumni of four Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP) country projects. Please click <a href="https://iap.unido.org/articles/women-cleantech-are-key-levers-inclusive-recovery" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">link</a> for reading full text.