July ninth, 2025 – By means of an alternate of letters, the United Nations Industrial Growth Group (UNIDO) and Lenovo formalized a strategic collaboration to speed up international initiatives that help the round financial system by collectively creating programmes to advertise sustainable industrialization and accountable electronics administration.
UNIDO and Lenovo will discover alternatives to mix strategic approaches and technical experience, whereas increasing entry to companions that ship sustainable know-how options. The collaboration may also embrace capacity-building efforts, consciousness campaigns, and expertise improvement programmes to help circularity throughout international provide chains.
UNIDO champions the round financial system as a transformative different to the standard ‘business-as-usual’ mannequin by supporting the combination of round ideas – comparable to round design, sustainable manufacturing, reuse, recycling, and materials restoration – throughout industrial worth chains.
“We stay up for working collectively on technical cooperation and capacity-building operations the world over”, stated Ciyong Zou, Deputy to the Director Normal and Managing Director of the Directorate of Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Industrial Growth of UNIDO. “Because the UN’s specialised company for industrial improvement, engagement with the personal sector is vital; Lenovo’s dedication to sustainable industrialization totally aligns with UNIDO’s imaginative and prescient for round international provide chains within the electronics sector and past”.
Lenovo is accelerating environmental progress by way of its participation within the round financial system, together with the continued use of closed-loop recycled supplies in its merchandise. The corporate additionally empowers prospects with sustainability providers that facilitate restore, recycling, and reuse, serving to prolong product lifecycles and holding supplies in circulation.
One of many key initiatives Lenovo and UNIDO will concentrate on is the World Electronics Administration (GEM) programme, funded by the World Surroundings Facility (GEF). Led by UNIDO in partnership with the African Growth Financial institution (AfDB), the UN Surroundings Programme (UNEP), and the UN Growth Programme (UNDP), GEM seeks to create an setting for accountable electronics administration in 16 nations, together with by supporting entry to finance and know-how, stimulating coverage and legislative adjustments, and contributing to lowered e-waste technology and elevated circularity and useful resource restoration.
“We’re proud to help the GEM programme and work alongside UNIDO to assist 16 nations throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America,” stated Mary Jacques, Govt Director of World ESG and Regulatory Compliance at Lenovo. “By sharing data and connecting companions throughout the know-how ecosystem, we goal to scale back e-waste, prolong the lifetime of electronics, and enhance supplies restoration from end-of-life merchandise. Partnering with UNIDO permits us to scale our round financial system efforts globally, reaching communities and markets we couldn’t successfully entry alone.”
As a part of the settlement, Lenovo and UNIDO may also convene numerous international advisory group conferences and different occasions to additional enhance consciousness of the significance of know-how to advance sustainable industrialization. This new section of cooperation displays a shared dedication of UNIDO and Lenovo to constructing an inclusive, climate-resilient, and extra sustainable future.
About Lenovo
Lenovo is a US$69 billion income international know-how powerhouse, ranked #248 within the Fortune World 500, and serving hundreds of thousands of shoppers on daily basis in 180 markets. Targeted on a daring imaginative and prescient to ship Smarter Know-how for All, Lenovo has constructed on its success because the world’s largest PC firm with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized units (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, excessive efficiency computing and software program outlined infrastructure), software program, options, and providers. Lenovo’s continued funding in world-changing innovation is constructing a extra equitable, reliable, and smarter future for everybody, all over the place. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong inventory alternate underneath Lenovo Group Restricted (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY). To search out out extra go to https://www.lenovo.com, and browse in regards to the newest information by way of our StoryHub.
