The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) announces partnership with Banque Populaire du Rwanda to offer on-bill financing to make energy-efficient and climate-friendly refrigerators and ACs more affordable. Countries in the East African Community are experiencing significant economic and population growth, which is driving ever-greater demand for domestic refrigerators and room air conditioners. Cooling products are essential for the health, well-being, and competitiveness of these ...Read More
Advancing Indonesia’s Lighting Market to High Efficient Technologies (ADLIGHT)
Indonesia’s ADLIGHT, Advancing Indonesia’s Lighting Market to High Efficient Technologies, project was officially launched through inception meetings in Bogor (West Java) on 1st and 2nd September 2020. This three-year (2020-2023) project aims to reduce electricity demand and related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by promoting increased use of high efficiency lighting technologies through the transformation of the national market. It is being implemented by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral ...Read More
Rwanda Launches Mechanism to Promote Energy-efficient, Climate Friendly Cooling Solutions
Rwanda’s Business Development Fund (BDF), in partnership with the Rwanda Green Fund (FONERWA), UN Environment’s United for Efficiency initiative and the Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy (BASE), has launched the “Coolease’” financial mechanism to promote adoption of energy efficient and climate friendly cooling solutions in Rwanda. The Coolease scheme, one of the first of its kind in Africa, enables suppliers and consumers of air conditioning and refrigeration products to transition to the ...Read More
Making Climate-Friendly Cooling More Affordable in the Dominican Republic
On 14 – 15 May 2019, the Caribbean Cooling Initiative (C-COOL) coordinated by UN Environment’s United for Efficiency initiative (U4E) outlined a strategy for transforming the Dominican Republic’s market for refrigeration, air conditioning, and other “cooling” solutions. An innovative financial mechanism was also launched with an aim to make clean and efficient air conditioners much more affordable. During a high-level consultation in Santo Domingo with Ministries of Environment and Natural ...Read More
United for Efficiency, Ghana and Senegal Target $25 Million for ECOFRIDGES
United for Efficiency (U4E) and the Governments of Ghana and Senegal are pleased to announce the launch of the ECOWAS Refrigerators and Air Conditioners Initiative (ECOFRIDGES). ECOFRIDGES aims to accelerate the switch to energy-efficient cooling products, saving consumers money on their utility bills and relieving stress on the electricity grid while having far less impact on the planet. In collaboration with BASE and the African Development Bank, the project seeks to unlock at least $25 ...Read More
Chile Powered Ahead in 2018 with More Efficient Lighting and Appliances
On 4 – 5 December 2018, United for Efficiency (U4E) celebrated a great success with a closing event for its three-year LED lighting project in Chile, Smart Energy Fest. Around 160 people attended including high-level speakers such as Chile’s Ministers of Environment and Energy, U4E partners, and international and national energy-efficiency experts. Chile is currently running two strategic full market-transformation programmes with U4E support—helping the economy see growth rates of more than 5 ...Read More
Enhancing the National Strategy for Energy Efficient Lighting and Market Surveillance in Cote d’Ivoire
Progress is being made in Western Africa as Côte d’Ivoire leads the way for developing standards on energy-efficient lighting. Earlier this fall, UN Environment’s United for Efficiency Initiative (U4E) and various project stakeholders met at Abidjan to conduct a stakeholder workshop on energy-efficient lighting and market-transformation strategy in accord with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) lighting project “Promotion of Energy Efficiency Lighting in Public, Commercial and Residential ...Read More
United for Efficiency and Chile’s Nationally Determined Contribution Partnership
According to United for Efficiency internal data projections, Chile can save more than 20 percent of its lighting electricity production and $480 million per year as a result of an energy-efficient lighting market transformation. United for Efficiency’s collaboration with the Chilean government began in 2015 in the form of policy and technical support to help achieve greenhouse gas reduction goals. Chile is committed under their Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement to ...Read More
Twinning of the Montreal Protocol and Energy Officials to Find Energy-efficient and Climate-friendly Cooling Solutions in Latin America
GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA, 28 June 2018 — The third in the series of Twinning Workshops on Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Refrigeration and Air Conditioning concluded in Guatemala City today. The workshop brought together two traditionally separate communities from the countries of Central and South America – those responsible for managing compliance with the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, and those responsible for national energy policies. With their ...Read More
United for Efficiency Initiates Collaboration with Rwanda
On 20 March 2018, United for Efficiency launched work with Rwandan government, aiming to accelerate the transformation of the country’s cooling market. This will allow for energy-efficient and climate-friendly air conditioners and refrigerators to enter Rwandan markets, saving Rwandan customers $40M in their energy bills. The Rwanda Cooling Initiative, initiated in Kigali at the outset of the Africa Cooling Efficiency Conference, includes five action areas, most notably an energy efficiency ...Read More
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