{"id":705,"date":"2024-05-24T12:29:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T10:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.industrialefficiency.co.za\/conference\/?page_id=705"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:20:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.industrialefficiency.co.za\/conference\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"705\" class=\"elementor elementor-705\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-61dd49a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"61dd49a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-thegem\"><div class=\"elementor-row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ede3fb3\" data-id=\"ede3fb3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" id=\"about\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-613804b flex-horizontal-align-default flex-horizontal-align-tablet-default flex-horizontal-align-mobile-default flex-vertical-align-default flex-vertical-align-tablet-default flex-vertical-align-mobile-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"613804b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Sustainable Industrial Spaces Conference 2025, is a two-day hybrid event, hosted by the National Cleaner Production Centre South Africa (NCPC-SA), dedicated to advancing sustainability and competitiveness in industrial spaces.<\/p>\n<p>This collaborative platform will bring together key stakeholders to advance sustainable practices and enhance competitiveness within industrial spaces. The conference will take place at the CSIR ICC in Pretoria and online.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will highlight two flagship initiatives: the Sustainable Energy Systems for <strong>Urban-Industrial Development<\/strong> (SESID), which aims to accelerate the uptake of renewable energy in industrial spaces, and the <strong>Global Eco Industrial Parks Programme<\/strong> (GEIPP), which fosters efficient resource use, industrial symbiosis, and cleaner production, contributing to a low-carbon economy.<\/p>\n<p>The NCPC-SA is supported in the Sustainable Industrial Spaces programme by the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (<strong>the dtic<\/strong>) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO); as well as funding partners the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the Global Environment Facility (GEF).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The programme will include<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sustainable energy and the just transition in industrial 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