The United Kingdom’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) United for Efficiency (U4E) convened a side event at the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of the Parties to the UN Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. The event, which took place in Montreal, Canada on 31 October 2022, highlighted the co-benefits of improving energy efficiency in parallel with phasing out the use of hydrochlorofluorocarbons ...Read More
October issue of the U4E newsletter now available
The U4E newsletter provides readers with quarterly updates on the latest U4E projects, resources and tools. The October 2022 issue is now available. This issue includes information on: The 2022 update of the U4E Country Savings Assessments Approval of the Ministerial Decree for minimum energy performance standards and energy labels for light emitting diode lighting in Indonesia Publication of the Barbados National Cooling Strategy Announcement of a new ECOFRIDGES GO new ...Read More
“Help Us to Understand Priority Gaps Where ACES Can Be of Service”
Brian Holuj, Strategic Delivery Lead for the Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-Chain (ACES) on behalf of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) United for Efficiency (U4E), overviews the ACES Engagement Day hosted on Friday, 21 October for Global Off-Grid Solar Forum attendees to further cold chain collaboration. A rainy season downpour could not dampen the enthusiastic deliberations of the more than 70 experts gathered at the ACES headquarters on 21 October ...Read More
El Salvador and Honduras Advance Energy-efficient and Climate-friendly Air Conditioners Through MVE Mechanisms and Testing Standards
El Salvador and Honduras advance energy-efficient and climate-friendly air conditioners through monitoring, verification and enforcement (MVE) mechanisms and testing standards with support from UNEP’s United for Efficiency (U4E), in preparation for new regional standards for higher performance cooling appliances. In September 2022, key national stakeholders from El Salvador and Honduras attended UNEP’s United for Efficiency (U4E) workshops, as part of the GCF Readiness Programme-funded ...Read More
Tunisia Prepares to Equip New Photometry Testing Laboratory to Enhance its National Energy Efficient Lighting Testing Capabilities
In October 2022, as Tunisia prepares its final specifications to purchase new photometry equipment necessary for testing lamps in the main usage sectors, senior staff from Tunisia’s National Agency for Energy Management (ANME) and the national test laboratory CETIME, spent four days on a study tour in France to develop a fuller understanding of the technical features and quality of the key measurement systems required. Tunisia will effectively equip a modern photometric test facility to ...Read More
Study Tour in Thailand Boosts Pakistan Testing Laboratory Capabilities
In August 2022, representatives from several key government agencies and test facilities from Pakistan, including the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR), National Institute of Electronics (NIE) and the Centre for Energy Research and Development (CERAD) spent four days at the Electrical and Electronics Institute (EEI) in Bangkok, Thailand to reinforce and develop the national capabilities for lighting product ...Read More
Centre for Sustainable Cooling and the Indian State of Haryana Sign a Memorandum of Understanding to Develop a Cold Chain Centre of Excellence
More than 50 research, industry and government partners from programmes across the UK, EU and Africa came together last week at The Local to Global Cold-chain Summit hosted by the Centre for Sustainable Cooling at the University of Birmingham. Participants shared their knowledge and discussed research and innovation needs and collaboration opportunities to operationalise sustainable, equitable and resilient cold-chains for food and health globally and take the next steps towards delivering ...Read More
Major Milestone in Indonesia’s Transition to Energy-efficient Lighting Achieved
The approval of the Ministerial Decree for minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) and energy labels for light emitting diode (LED) lights in July 2022 marks a significant milestone for Indonesia’s ADLIGHT, Advancing Indonesia’s Lighting Market to High Efficient Technologies, project. The project is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The three-year ADLIGHT project, ...Read More
Ghana Poised to Reap the Benefits of Sustainable Public Procurement of Efficient and Climate-Friendly Cooling
Government agencies in Ghana are poised to drive a major switch to efficient and climate-friendly cooling thanks to new sustainable public procurement (SPP) protocols introduced with technical assistance from UNEP U4E. On 2 September 2022, representatives of Ghana’s Energy Commission, led by Hubert Zan and Edwin Kwasi Tamakloe, and UNEP-U4E delivered training on SPP to government officials from the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Ghana Health Service (GHS). The training focused on air ...Read More
NOVOTEC Dealers of BOSCH Joins ECOFRIDGES GHANA
Ghana Energy Commission and UNEP U4E are honored to announce a new partner vendor, Novotec, which is approved to sell two refrigerator models which are compliant with the rigorous requirements of ECOFRIDGES GO. Novotec is joining four existing partner vendors: SML Ghana, Ederick, Sun Electronics, and Nesstra who offer their own range of ECOFRIDGES GO approved products. The ECOWAS Refrigerators and Air Conditioners Initiative (ECOFRIDGES) is a joint project in Ghana and Senegal, which aims to ...Read More
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