The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (Unido) set up a seminar on 'cleantech Competition' to create better awareness in small-medium enterprises and start-up businesses how to maximise their business prospects by fostering innovations in clean technologies.
The event was held at the chamber's regional office with Federation's Vice President Hameed Akhtar Chadda in the chair. The initiative was a part of three years Global Cleantech Innovation Programme, currently running in seven countries including Pakistan and aimed at developing a sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystem by supporting clean technology innovations in SMEs and start up entrepreneurs in order to enable them for achieving sustainable growth.
Addressing the seminar, Dr Shaheena Waheed, National Programme Coordinator, UNIDO Pakistan highlighted the importance of clean technologies for SMEs and said clean technology innovations have bright future in Pakistan and in global market. She stressed on the small-medium enterprises to focus on embracing clean technology innovations to fuel green industrial revolution in the country and achieve lucrative returns. She said UNIDO was looking to help Pakistani entrepreneurs with best ideas that address today's pressing energy, environmental and economic challenges.
Chamber Vice President Hameed Akhtar Chadda said the small-medium enterprises and start up businesses were facing many challenges in accessing finance for adopting clean technologies. He emphasized that government should create policy incentives and come up with some instruments like innovative finance, clean technology development initiatives and suitable legal & regulatory framework in order to facilitate and encourage SMEs for going green and clean.
Muhammad Hammad Bashir Saeed, Project Technical Expert Cleantech Pakistan Program, UNIDO gave a detailed presentation on Cleantech Competition and said Cleantech was a global competition aimed at encouraging the small-medium enterprises to come up with new ideas for addressing issues in the areas of renewable energy, energy efficiency, water efficiency and waste to energy and contribute to fuelling green industrial growth in the country.
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