MDG 7: Ensure Environmental Protection “The current
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption must be
changed in the interest of our future welfare and that of our
descendants” The global economy has adopted patterns of growth
that are driving our consumption of materials and energy beyond
the limits of what is available on our planet. Industry as a
sector, designing and manufacturing goods that our economies
consume, has a key responsibility for this. Many enterprises use
more materials and energy than their production processes
require. They continue to use obsolete and inefficient
technologies and fail to adopt proper management systems. This
is particularly true of SMEs and industry in developing
countries, both a reflection and a cause of lower levels of
development. For MDG7, UNIDO’s response is to actively foster
the flows of information, experience, expertise and equipment
between countries that hold the key to transfers of technology
for both climate change mitigation and adaptation: the a