The Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics (DTIE)
The UNEP division focusing on solutions to industrial and urban environmental problems

Industry Outreach
DTIE's Industry Outreach activities seek to promote responsible entrepreneurship among various stakeholders - industry, business, governments, and NGOs. Focus areas include voluntary initiatives, environmental reporting, and technology transfer.

Industry and Environment - a quarterly review
DTIE's quarterly publication that covers policy, technological and scientific developments related to business and the environment. Each issue of the review focuses on a particular theme in the field of sustainable industrial development.

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
GRI is an international, multi-stakeholder effort to create a common framework for voluntary reporting of the economic, environmental, and social impact of organisation-level activity.

UN's Global Compact
UN Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan's challenge to world business leaders to "embrace and enact" a set of 9 principles that cover topics in human rights, labour and environment in their individual corporate practices. UNEP contributes the environmental portion of this site, which is maintained by the United Nations Global Compact Network.

The Production and Consumption Unit
Fosters the development of cleaner and safer production and consumption patterns that lead to increased efficiency in the use of natural resources and reductions in pollution.

Cleaner Production
DTIE's Cleaner Production activities promote strategies, policies and practices to prevent pollution from processes, products and services, increasing overall efficiency and reducing risks to humans and the environment.

Promoting Cleaner Production Investment
Promoting investment in sustainable businesses and CP in developing countries, this project aims at demonstrating to financial institutions the financial and environmental benefits inherent in CP investments as well as helping entrepreneurs and CP experts develop creditworthy CP investment proposals.

APELL: Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies on a Local Level
APELL aims at improved accident prevention, community awareness and emergency preparedness.

Environmental Management Tools
An introduction to a number of environmental management tools

Industrial Estates
Promoting Eco-Industrial Development

Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
A clearinghouse of systems developed by several national and regional government organisations to collect and disseminate data on environmental releases and transfers of toxic chemicals from industrial facilities.

Industry Sectors

Finance Initiatives
The initiative's goal is to enhance the capacity of the financial services sector as a whole in integrating environmental and sustainability considerations into all their policies and business operations.

GeSI - The Global e-Sustainability Initiative
An initiative of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) service providers and suppliers, with the support of UNEP and International Telecommunication Union.

Regional Initiative on ICT and the Environment Promoting e-Sustainability in Asia-Pacific
Helping improve regional environment and sustainable development within the framework of the Malmö Ministerial declaration and the UNEP Global e-Sustainability Initiative(GeSI) by catalysing local and national initiatives

Tourism
Focusing on policies, tools, and best practices for environmentally-sound tourism.

The Tour Operators Initiative
A joint initiative between UNEP, UNESCO, WTO and tour operators. The initiative assists the members develop and implement environmental management and practices that minimize negative environmental and social impacts while optimizing benefits.

The Mineral Resources Forum - Environment
An internet framework for international co-ordination on the theme of minerals, metals and sustainable development, promoting the exchange of knowledge, experience and expertise in the impact of mining, mineral processing and metals on the natural environment; the mitigation of environmental damage; and planning for mine closure and disposal of hazardous wastes.

UNEP Offshore Oil and Gas Environment Forum
A multi-stakeholder initiative to create a medium to locate and disseminate environmental information concerning the sustainable development of the offshore oil and gas industry.

Sustainable Agri-food Production and Consumption Forum
Provides a network of key information sources on agri-food production and consumption, related environmental impacts and practices to prevent or respond to these impacts.

AREED - African Rural Energy Enterprise Development Initiative
Seeks to develop new sustainable energy enterprises that use clean, efficient, and renewable energy technologies to meet the energy needs of under-served populations, thereby reducing the environmental and health consequences of existing energy use patterns.

Brazil Rural Energy Enterprise Development (B-REED)
Seeks to develop energy enterprises that use clean, efficient and sustainable energy technologies to meet the energy needs of under-served populations, thereby reducing the environmental and health consequences of existing energy use patterns and stimulating local economic growth. B-REED will initially focus in Brazil's Northeast, specifically in Bahia and Alagoas.

Trade

Economics and Trade Programme
A programme of research, consensus-building, assessment of trade-related policies and capacity-building on integrating trade, environment and development policies. Activities range from country projects to international meetings which enhance synergies between multilateral environmental agreements and the World Trade Organisation.

Implementation Of Environmental Law Branch
Consists of the Compliance and Enforcement Unit and the Pilot Projects Unit. Work focuses on ensuring compliance with and enforcement of established national, regional and international environmental policy instruments, with a particular emphasis on illegal trade in violation of international environmental instruments.

World Conservation Monitoring Center
Provides information for policy and action to conserve the living world. Programmes concentrate on species, forests, protected areas, marine and freshwaters; plus habitats affected by climate change such as polar regions. Also address the relationship between trade and the environment and the wider aspects of biodiversity assessment

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
CITES is an international agreement between governments that aims to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival

Regions

Unidad de Tecnología, Industria y Economía
Technology, Industry, and Economics in the Latin American and Caribbean Region