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 improve 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 front runner 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 activities to support the implementation of Eco-Industrial Park, including resource efficiency and cleaner production are recognized and will sharpen the effort to achieve sustainability targets of both industrial parks and their tenants. This workshop will also introduce sustainability reporting according to the GRI standards-the first global standards for sustainability reporting which align with the objectives of EIP implementation and how the implementation of the EIP in the industrial parks is being disclosed in the sustainability reporting according to the GRI standard.