Developing countries will receive £4 million to drive down the emissions of harmful hydrofluorocarbons generated by outdated air conditioning units, cooling refrigeration and cold supply chains, the UK government announced on 20 April 2023 ahead of a reception in No.10 Downing Street for climate scientists serving on the Independent Assessment Panels for the UN Montreal Protocol, along with members of the United Nations Environment Programme United for Efficiency (UNEP U4E) African Centre of ...Read More
Inauguration of National Technical Committee Drives Progress Towards Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Cooling in Nigeria
The importance of energy efficiency as one of the most cost-effective means of providing energy security, increasing economic productivity, reducing air pollution and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) was recognised by Nigeria’s Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Adeleke Olonmimbe Mamora, when he inaugurated the National Technical Committee for the Scaling Up Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Cooling in Nigeria’s NDC Revision project at a Stakeholder Consultation ...Read More
ACES Stakeholders Convene in the UK for Strategic Discussions
This month key stakeholders in the Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-Chain (ACES) convened in the UK to finalize immediate actions to operationalize the centre, exchange insights, and build strategic networks with government officials, industry, and academia. ACES is based in Kigali, Rwanda, and its aim is to accelerate the deployment of sustainable cold-chain solutions in Africa to improve livelihoods, health, food and nutritional security. This will be achieved ...Read More
Training future generations of energy efficiency professionals
The IEA Energy Efficiency 2022 report released in November 2022 highlighted that the largest future energy efficiency opportunities will be found in emerging and developing economies that are particularly exposed to the challenges of surging energy costs, supply disruptions and looming energy shortages. They account for around 60% of global final energy demand in 2022, and this is expected to grow almost 20% by 2030 under current policy scenarios. They therefore have a critical role to play in ...Read More
Brazilian Stakeholders Benefit from the First Ever U4E Commercial Refrigeration Study Tour
Brazil takes important fast climate action steps forward with new nationwide energy efficient, higher performance, commercial refrigerators planned for all sectors. In January 2023, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) United for Efficiency (U4E) initiative ran its first ever commercial refrigeration technical study tour, in the framework of the GCF Readiness Programme-funded project, Leapfrogging to Energy-Efficient and Climate Friendly Commercial Refrigerating Appliances in Brazil, ...Read More
January 2023 issue of the U4E newsletter now available
The U4E newsletter provides readers with quarterly updates on the latest U4E projects, resources and tools. The January 2023 issue is now available. This issue includes information on: The use of U4E’s model regulation guidelines to specify threshold levels for accessing support and as a benchmark for a country’s ambition New collaborations for the Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-chain High profile U4E events in parallel with MOP 34 and OLADE Energy ...Read More
U4E Hosts Regional Energy Efficiency Seminar in Parallel with OLADE Energy Week 2022
The United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) United for Efficiency (U4E) hosted a regional energy efficiency seminar for Latin American countries in parallel with OLADE Energy Week 2022. The event took place in Panama City on 13-14 December 2022 to highlight the importance of energy efficiency as the foundation for tackling the current global climate and energy crisis. Organized by the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), the Energy Secretariat of Panama and the Inter-American ...Read More
Indonesia Boosts Monitoring, Verification and Enforcement Capability with Technical Study Tour in Thailand
In November 2022, representatives from the key stakeholder organisations involved in monitoring, verification and enforcement activities in Indonesia spent four days at the Electrical and Electronics Institute (EEI) in Bangkok, Thailand to reinforce and develop the national capabilities for undertaking the testing required to underpin regulations for energy efficiency of lighting products in Indonesia. The technical study tour was undertaken as part of the GEF-funded Advancing Indonesia’s ...Read More
U4E Model Regulation Guidelines Support NDC4 Call for Proposals on Refrigeration and Air Conditioning NDC Strategy Development
“Ambitious countries” may be able to benefit from technical advisory in the application of best practices for Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) strategy development in the refrigeration and air conditioning (RAC) sector thanks to the NDC4 Call for Proposals from the global project Cool Contributions Fighting Climate Change II (C4 II). C4 II is funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) under the ...Read More
Shedding Light on Energy Efficiency in Sudan with ‘Super Energy’ for Schools
The role that young people can have in spreading climate change messages and recruiting behaviour change is becoming more and more apparent. This hasn’t gone un-noticed in Sudan where an energy-efficient lighting awareness campaign was designed specifically to target primary school children as a route to engaging their families and communities. This is particularly important in Sudan where the illiteracy rate is still high, and many families learn from their children who attend schools. Schools ...Read More
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