On Wednesday 8 November, the sixth SEAD Global Efficiency Medal competition identified and recognized highly energy-efficient industrial lighting luminaires from LumoLumen and Zumtobel, and outdoor lighting luminaires from Bajaj Electricals. *This is a United for Efficiency Partner Story The ceremony took place at the International Energy Agency, Paris, France. Samuel Thomas of the Agency presented the awards. The SEAD Global Efficiency Medal recognizes the world’s most ...Read More
U4E November Event Registration Now Open
Join us to network with senior officials, top business executives and civil society leaders! United for Efficiency is pleased to welcome you to a high-level conference on accelerating the global transition to energy-efficient products. UN Environment Executive Director Erik Solheim will lead off the event, which will feature senior government officials, top business executives, and civil society leaders. Throughout the day, participants will highlight progress on policies and programmes that ...Read More
Arçelik AŞ, Electrolux Among World’s TOP 9 Sustainable Companies
Düsseldorf, Germany, 14 September 2017: United for Efficiency Partners Arçelik AŞ and Electrolux were awarded the Ökovision Sustainability Leadership Award that is awarded annually to nine global companies pioneering environmental and social compatibility. Fatih Demiray, Head of Sustainability Department and Manager for Regulatory Affairs said “We are proud that our efforts are being recognized at an international scale. The Ökovision Sustainability Leadership Award proves that we are on ...Read More
UNDP: Time to Put Energy Efficiency First
Global platforms such as United for Efficiency help implement energy-efficient solutions The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)—a founder of United for Efficiency—has been working on energy efficiency for more than 25 years. It is pleased to champion a global initiative linking leading companies, civil society and senior policymakers toward a common purpose: transforming emerging and developing economies with energy-efficient products. They are helping to improve the performance of ...Read More
New SEforALL report: Greater Finance Needed to Achieve Global Goals
New Energizing Finance report series highlights opportunities to spur investment in centralized and decentralized energy access solutions. NEW YORK, September 18, 2017: Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and partners announced first-of-its-kind research today analyzing finance flows for electricity and clean cooking access in 20 countries across Africa and Asia with significant access gaps, and how finance strategies could be scaled and refined to reach more people, more affordably, with ...Read More
Ministers and Top UN Leaders to World’s Nations: Ratify Kigali Amendment
18 September 2017, New York- Ministers and top UN leaders yesterday urged the world’s nations to quickly ratify an international agreement that could prevent up to half a degree of global warming this century. Dr. Vincent Biruta, Minister of Environment of the Republic of Rwanda, and Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Canada, hosted a high-level event at the United Nations General Assembly to press for ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal ...Read More
Kazakhstan and UNDP-GEF Start a New United for Efficiency Project
On September 14, 2017 in Astana city the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry for Investments and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MID RK) with the financial support of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) are presenting the Project “Standards, certification and labelling of energy efficiency of electric domestic appliances and equipment in Kazakhstan”, further referred as Project. This Project is a part of the global initiative United for Efficiency (U4E), ...Read More
responsAbility Partners with UN Environment
Collaboration agreement to measure energy efficiency A climate fund managed by responsAbility Investments AG has entered into collaboration with the Energy, Climate and Technology branch of the UN Environment. The partners will collaborate on developing country baselines for specific technologies to establish benchmarks for both sustainable energy policies and energy efficiency financing. The strategic partnership will allow responsAbility to obtain first-hand information on the development of ...Read More
U4E Webinar Reaches Global Audience
On 25 July, 2017, the Clean Energy Solutions Center, in partnership with UN Environment, hosted a webinar highlighting the findings of six new policy guides developed by United for Efficiency. The webinar, addressing indoor and outdoor lighting, room air conditioners, household refrigerators, electric motors and motor systems, and transformers, reached energy experts in over 70 countries around the world. Well over half of the world’s electricity is consumed by the products addressed in these ...Read More
IEA Annex Launches LED Testing Comparison
The IEA 4E Solid State Lighting Annex formally announces the launch of the 2017 Interlaboratory Comparison (IC 2017) of goniophotometer measurements. IC 2017 is open to all photometric labs that use goniophotometers for testing LED lighting products, and is organised primarily to compare goniophotometric measurements of LED luminaires and narrow-beam LED lamps. This new interlaboratory comparison will study the equivalence of different types of goniophotometers, e.g., far-field ...Read More
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