Industrial parks have long been recognized as an efficient means of unifying industrial activities with business, infrastructure, and service objectives. Industrial parks share many commonalities, in that they are planned and developed to foster economic growth and of improving the location’s competitiveness through potential collaborative and efficiency gains. In the context of mounting pressure to address climate change and foster international development, it is becoming increasingly clear that industrial parks need to move beyond their traditional resource-intensive business models to integrate environmental and social dimensions to remain a frontrunner in economic activities.
The Global Eco-Industrial Parks Programme – Indonesia: Country Level Intervention (GEIPP-Indonesia) is geared up to demonstrate the viability and benefits of Eco-Industrial Park (EIP) approaches in scaling up resource productivity and improving economic, environmental, and social performances of businesses and thereby contribute to inclusive and sustainable industrial development in Indonesia. Key benefits of Eco-Industrial Parks include reducing an industrial park’s environmental footprint; promoting efficiency gains; enabling community cohesion; providing better access to finance and technical support; and enhancing business competitiveness. Good international industry practice demonstrates a wide range of economic, environmental, and social benefits from EIPs.
The strategy to support the implementation of an Eco-Industrial Park is to consider the use of environmentally friendly energy sources. Clean energy is energy that comes from renewable, zero-emission sources that do not pollute the atmosphere when used, as well as energy saved by energy efficiency measures. Replacing energy with renewable energy sources will result in a cleaner production cycle. In addition, in the use of new and renewable energy, there are also benefits for industrial areas, especially in the source of meeting unlimited energy needs. This workshop will discuss the practice of utilizing the renewable energy source as well as identifying potential energy efficiency activities as well as clean-energy source activities, for instance, the practice of electric cars and heat exchanges in industrial areas as well as other practices.