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American industry

Chapter 4:

Transfer of environmentally sound technology methodology in Latin American industry: Honduras case study

Ludovic Bernaudat

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna, Austria

Yolanda Cachú Pavón

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Mexico City, Mexico

Abstract

Between 2008 and 2012, UNIDO introduced its Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technology methodology to a number of industries along a river basin in Hondu- ras. The methodology consists in introducing five management tools at company level with the aim to change management practices in a holistic manner in order to ensure the sustainable introduction of green practices. Relying on local capacity- building and the occasional training by international experts, the project has man- aged, in three years, to bring about considerable changes to the three participating companies, all reporting a reduced contaminant concentration of their effluents as well as reduced costs, proving that green industrial processes are beneficial to both the environment and the financiers. The companies have introduced most of the cleaner production recommendations (i.e. low cost changes) and they are also in- vesting in the environmentally sound technologies identified during the project to the tune of millions of US$. Finally, the participating companies are now replicating the successes of the methodology in the other branches of their industrial group.