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Threats to the environment are a common concern shared by developing and industrialized countries. All countries should take effective action to protect and enhance the environment in accordance with their responsibilities and respective capacities.
Based on the five year experience as a Director of UNIDO, the author stresses the importance of collaboration and cooperation between Scientists and Industrialists for Ecologically Sustainable Industrial Development.
A consensus has emerged in the world's scientific community, that the damage afflicted on the environment by current pattern of energy production and use is the most urgent issue facing today's energy decision makers. A way to alleviate these problems would be through increasing energy efficiency. New technologies, energy efficient technologies, promotion, transfer, and data banking of those technologies, increase of developing countries awareness are described as major tools for attaining Agenda 21.
It is imoperative to develop simple and practical methodologies in assessing the impact of technology and in evaluation technology development, transfer and application, where all parameters are taken into consideration, even those of social nature. These assessments are important in transferring and adopting the experience and technologies of industrialized countries to developing countries.
