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InTex Textile

PME du textile innovantes et circulaires : le projet InTex en Tunisie, en Afrique du Sud et au Kenya

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Voices & Views

Dans le cadre de la Journée mondiale de l'environnement 2023, Capacity4dev a interviewé l'équipe derrière le projet InTex financé par l'UE et mis en œuvre par le Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement (PNUE).

Africa
Kenya
South Africa
+1
Tunisia
Environment & green economy
Circular economy
Green industry
+7
Greening the economy
Private Sector
Entrepreneurship
Industry
SMEs
Sustainable Industries
Value chains
Pymes del sextor textil innovadoras y circulares: proyecto InTex en Túnez, Sudáfrica y Kenia

Pymes del sextor textil innovadoras y circulares: proyecto InTex en Túnez, Sudáfrica y Kenia

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Voices & Views

En el contexto del Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente 2023, Capacity4dev entrevistó al equipo detrás del proyecto InTex financiado por la UE y ejecutado por el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA).

Africa
Kenya
South Africa
+1
Tunisia
Environment & green economy
Circular economy
Green industry
+7
Greening the economy
Private Sector
Industry
Entrepreneurship
SMEs
Sustainable Industries
Value chains
InTex

Innovative and Circular Textile SMEs: the InTex project in Tunisia, South Africa and Kenya

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Voices & Views

In the context of the World Environment Day 2023, Capacity4dev interviewed the team behind the EU-funded InTex project implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Kenya
South Africa
Tunisia
Circular economy
Green industry
Greening the economy
+7
Environment & green economy
Private Sector
Entrepreneurship
Industry
SMEs
Sustainable Industries
Value chains

Promoción de la producción y el consumo sostenibles en América Latina

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Voices & Views

Los patrones de consumo y de producción no sostenibles se encuentran en el centro de la triple crisis planetaria: cambio climático, pérdida de biodiversidad y contaminación La degradación medioambiental se ha vuelto aún más...

Americas & the Caribbean
Colombia
Costa Rica
+1
Mexico
Climate change & disaster risks
Environment & green economy
Private Sector

Promoting sustainable production and consumption in Latin America

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Voices & Views

Unsustainable consumption and production patterns are at the heart of the triple planetary crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Environmental degradation has become even more evident during the COVID-19...

Americas & the Caribbean
Colombia
Costa Rica
+1
Mexico
Climate change & disaster risks
Environment & green economy
Private Sector

Promoting legal timber trade and sustainable forest governance in Guatemala

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Voices & Views

Illegal logging is a global problem with significant negative economic, environmental, and social impacts. Partner countries around the world, including in the Latin America region, have taken action and introduced measures to...

Americas & the Caribbean
Guatemala
Environment & green economy
Private Sector
Forests

Promoviendo el comercio legal de madera y la gobernanza forestal sostenible en Guatemala

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Voices & Views

La tala ilegal de árboles es un problema mundial con un importante impacto negativo en el ámbito económico, medioambiental y social. Los países socios de todo el mundo, incluida la región de América Latina, han emprendido acciones...

Americas & the Caribbean
Guatemala
Environment & green economy
Private Sector
Forests
Two hands shaking

Public and private sector representatives highlight benefits of public-private partnerships

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Voices & Views

At the European Development Days 2019, Capacity4dev spoke to representatives of both the public and private sector to discuss public-private partnerships (PPPs). During the European event - designed to encourage the sharing of...

Worldwide
Africa
Congo
+2
Americas & the Caribbean
Colombia
Private Sector
Public Private Partnerships
Research for Private sector development and industry
+4
Trade & Economic Integration
Trade facilitation
Trade Policy
Trade-related adjustment - Aid for trade

EU Risk Capital Facility - Helping SMEs Create Jobs in South Africa

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Voices & Views

Joblessness is a longstanding challenge for South Africa where the unemployment rate is 26% - officially. Off the record it’s closer to 40%, according to Milly Chesire at the EU Delegation in Pretoria, and hits 70% among...

Africa
South Africa
Employment & VET
Private Sector
Social Protection and Inclusion
+1
Trade & Economic Integration

EU-Honduras Timber Negotiations Strengthen Fight against Illegal Logging

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Voices & Views

If you have ever been to Honduras, you will know that it is one of the greenest countries in Central America. Forestry has had a long history there and continues to be an important source of energy for the impoverished rural...

Americas & the Caribbean
Honduras
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
Environment & green economy
+4
Governance & Corruption
Private Sector
Forests
Trade & Economic Integration