COP President, the Rt. Hon. Alok Sharma MP, visited the Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-chain (ACES) during his attendance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Rwanda this week. Currently 7% of the world’s emissions come from cooling – from food and vaccine cold-chains to air conditioning to high-tech innovation – and demand for cooling will only grow as global temperatures increase. ACES is a first-of-kind Centre dedicated to generating ...Read More
United for Efficiency Technical Support for Eco-Efficient Lighting in Bolivia
In May 2022, members of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) United for Efficiency (U4E) technical team visited La Paz to meet with national stakeholders implementing their three-year full lighting market transformation project, Delivering the Transition to Energy Efficient Lighting in Bolivia. The objective of the visit was to facilitate discussions on the implementation of the various aspects of the countrywide project, to provide technical advice on ongoing activities and to help identify ...Read More
Project Promoting Energy-efficient Motors in Türkiye Reaps Rewards for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
As the Promoting Energy-Efficient Motors in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Türkiye (PEEMS, or TEVMOT to give it its official abbreviation in Turkish) project draws to the conclusion of its pilot programme this year, Özge Renklidağ, the Project Manager from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Türkiye, reflects on the background and outcomes of the project. “According to the inventory conducted in Türkiye related to the electric motors, around 46% of net electricity ...Read More
U4E Co-led Events at the 2022 SEforALL Forum in Kigali
United for Efficiency (U4E) is pleased to being co-leading three events at, and alongside, the 2022 Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Forum in Kigali on 17-19 May 2022. The 2022 SEforALL Forum is the landmark global gathering bringing people together to take stock of progress, showcase success and identify solutions to achieve faster, broader gains towards sustainable energy for all. It is a platform to broker new partnerships, spur investment, address challenges and drive action towards ...Read More
U4E Launches Open-source Product Registration System
This week, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) United for Efficiency (U4E) initiative launched a prototype national product registration system (PRS) which can be customised by countries to implement their own national system. A PRS is an essential component of a programme to transform a market to more energy-efficient lighting, appliances or equipment. It is used to capture specific information on the products to underpin policies or programmes and to provide an initial ...Read More
April issue of the U4E newsletter now available
The U4E newsletter provides readers with quarterly updates on the latest U4E projects, resources and tools. The April 2022 issue is now available. This includes information on: The Project Steering Committee meeting for the GEF Global Project to Leapfrog Markets to Energy Efficient Lighting, Appliances and Equipment The launch of R-COOL GO, the Rwanda Cooling Initiative’s Green On-Wage financing mechanism The new U4E/SIE project to promote sustainable public procurement in ...Read More
Big Savings with Sustainable Public Procurement – Government and State Entities Leading by Powerful Example in the Transformation of National Markets to Higher Efficiency Lighting, Appliances and Equipment
Sustainable public procurement (SPP) is a process whereby Governments and other public sector organisations meet their needs for goods and services in a way that achieves the best value for money while at the same time balancing the environmental, social and economic aspects. Such balance can be readily achieved thought the deployment of more stringent and ambitious standards for electrical products – high energy performance standards (HEPS) to ’save energy, save money and save the planet at ...Read More
SAPP-U4E Meeting on Southern Africa Regional and National Opportunities for Energy-Efficient Transformers and Appliances
On 28 March 2022, the United Nations Environment Programme United for Efficiency (U4E) initiative and the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) convened a meeting with Southern African power utilities and distribution transformers focal points who sit on Integrated Demand Management Working Group (IDMWG) to discuss the development of minimum energy performance standards (MEPS), and the use of the new U4E total cost of ownership tool, for distribution transformers. The objective of the meeting ...Read More
Monitoring, Verification and Compliance Capacity Building Training Supports Transition to Efficient Lighting in Bolivia
On 4 March 2022, representatives from the key institutions involved in the Transition to Efficient Lighting in Bolivia project met in La Paz, Bolivia to receive training to expand capacity within the wider stakeholder group on the monitoring, verification and compliance (MVC) aspects of the project. The objective of this GEF-funded project is to accelerate the transition to energy-efficient lighting technologies in Bolivia through the development of a national efficient lighting policy and ...Read More
Sustainable Cooling Experts Gather in Washington for Global Food Loss Summit
Sustainable food, cooling and cold-chain experts from around the globe are gathering in Washington DC to create a blueprint for rolling out affordable solutions to help African food producers reduce waste and reduce their carbon footprint. The Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain Summit will take place in the United States on 15 March to identify partnership and investment opportunities to scale up the impact of existing initiatives across Africa. The Summit ...Read More
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