City of Vienna Positions Itself at UNIDO Silk Road Conference

OrganizationsOther ♦ Published: September 24, 2019; 15:22 ♦ (Vindobona)

At the recent two-day international silk road conference hosted by UNIDO, the Vienna Chamber of Commerce and Industry, represented by location lawyer Alexander Biach, took a stand and presented the opportunities and advantages of the Vienna region and the possibilities of a connection to the new Silk Road (Belt and Road Initiative).

China in Red, the members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in orange. The 6 proposed corridors of the Belt and Road Initiative. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Lommes [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]

The project on the new Silk Road was the focus of the UNIDO conference "BRIDGE for Cities - Belt and Road Initiative: Developing Green Economies for Cities".

Central topics in this context were climate and environmental protection as well as digitization play.

In the context of the UNIDO conference the Viennese lawyer Alexander Biach was invited to talk about the chances…