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IFA has enjoyed a rewarding relationship with the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) for many years. The Association takes the environmental
responsibility of the industry seriously and seeks to promote positive change
within the industry. Therefore IFA sees its role as a bridge between the
industry and this key UN programme as essential for making coherent progress on
environmental questions.
IFA's main point of contact is the Paris office of the
UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics. The Association also
works with the main UNEP office,
located in Nairobi.
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Right to left: Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel, Director
of the UNEP Division for Technology, Industry and Economics, looks on while IFA
President Esa Tirkkonen signs the UNEP International Declaration on Cleaner
Production in May 2000. Egil Myklebust, President and CEO of Norsk Hydro, and
Michael Zammit Cutajar, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change, were also present.
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IFA attends the annual UNEP consultation with industry associations, normally
held in Paris at the end of September.
IFA and UNEP have worked together on a series of publications to look at the
environmental aspects of the fertilizer industry throughout the life cycle of
the product. UNIDO also
contributed to some of these publications.
In 1999, IFA contributed "Supplying
plant nutrients for sustainable agriculture - life-cycle approaches in the
fertilizer industry" to a special double issue of UNEP's Industry and
Environment on "Sustainability
and the agri-food industry".
In 2000, IFA signed the
UNEP International Declaration on Cleaner Production
and encouraged its members to adopt the principles laid out in that document.
 IFA
contributes to UNEP's Web Forum for
Sustainable Agri-food Production and Consumption.
IFA prepared a case study for the forthcoming publication Catalysing Change:
How Can Industry Associations Promote Sustainable Development? This publication
gathers case studies from across business and industry and has been prepared in
the light of the
World Summit on
Sustainable Development, to be held in South Africa in 2002.
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