A UN report warns: The current pace of industrial development is not sufficient to achieve the 2030 goals
New York, July 28 / WAM / A new UN report has warned that the current pace of progress in global industrial development is insufficient to achieve the ninth goal of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, indicating that this progress is still slow and uneven between regions.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, submitted this report, prepared by Gerd Müller, Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), to the United Nations General Assembly for consideration during its eighty-first session next September.
The report revealed that the industrial development gap between countries continues to widen, with Asia and Oceania topping the recovery indicators, while Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean bottomed the list, with China alone accounting for more than 30% of the global industrial value added during the year 2025.
He explained that the recovery of the global manufacturing industry is still below levels before the Covid-19 pandemic as a result of geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty, and the acceleration of technological transformations, with the sector’s continued weak contribution to the domestic product and job creation, especially in the least developed countries.
The report highlighted five major transformations that are reshaping the features of global industry, namely the shift towards energy and the green economy, the expansion of digital technologies and artificial intelligence, the restructuring of supply chains, demographic changes in labor markets, and food system transformations.
At the same time, the report praised the progress made in reducing the intensity of carbon emissions in the industrial sector, calling for accelerating the transition towards a circular economy and expanding the use of renewable energy to keep pace with the changes that will determine the position of countries in the global economy in the future.
The report concluded that it is imperative to adopt modern and ambitious industrial policies, and increase investments in infrastructure, innovation, skills and clean energy, to ensure that manufacturing is transformed into a comprehensive engine for economic growth and poverty reduction instead of deepening development gaps.
He stressed that the current global transformations carry within them promising opportunities for developing countries to better integrate into the global economy when combined with appropriate policies and investments.
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