U4E and its lighting project, the en.lighten initiative, comprise the global effort to advance energy-efficient lighting, appliances, and equipment. The partnership includes the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Copper Association (ICA), the environmental and energy-efficiency NGO CLASP, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and also includes private sector partners ABB, Arçelik, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Electrolux, MABE, Osram, Philips, and Whirlpool Corporation.
We look forward to showcasing the energy-savings potential that energy-efficient lighting, appliances, and equipment offer. Additional details on each event follow.
- Side event: “LED Street Lighting Solutions—an Easy Switch for Cities”
7 December 2015, 10am, le Bourget—La Galerie des Solutions - Energy Efficiency: The Game Changer – Interactive Energy Efficiency Accelerator Panels
7 December 2015, 10:30am, le Bourget—Climate Generations Space—Room 10 - Energy Efficiency—the potential solution to 50% of the GHG emissions reductions for a 2 degree pathway
7 December 2015, 3pm – 6:40pm with Lighting, Appliances, and Equipment schedule between 4:30pm – 6pm, le Bourget—Blue Zone
Side event on “LED Street Lighting Solutions—an Easy Switch for Cities”
LED street lighting solutions can deliver energy savings 40 – 70 per cent higher than traditional lighting technologies, and their maintenance costs are close to zero. This event will bring together the UNEP en.lighten-U4E initiative, les Eco Maires, ADEME and its partners (Philips Lighting, Osram, Sunna Design, World Bank, IEA 4E SSL Annex and the Climate Group) to present innovative programs, new city lighting assessments and policy recommendations to increase the transition to advance LED lighting technologies and controls in cities around the world.
Date: 7 December 2015
Time: 10am – 12:30pm
Venue: le Bourget (La Galerie des Solutions)
Access: The registration process for the “LED Street Lighting – an Easy Switch for Cities” side event will be processed online. Participants will need to register ahead of time directly on the website of “Les Galeries des Solutions”: http://www.lagalerie-cop21.com/badge-dacces. For more information please contact: cecile.martinphipps@ademe.fr and cecile.gracy@ademe.fr
Energy Efficiency: The Game Changer – Interactive Energy Efficiency Accelerator Panels
The Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative, led by UN Secretary-General and the President of the World Bank, has as one of its three objectives for 2030 a doubling of the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency. The Global Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform was established to help reach this objective, with the en.lighten-U4E initiative leading the Accelerators on Lighting and Appliances & Equipment. The panel will bring together country and private sector partners of U4E, showing the potential opportunities such a partnership provides. U4E partners speaking at the event will include high-level representatives from ABB, Arçelik AŞ, Osram and the International Copper Association (ICA).
Date: 7 December 2015
Time: 10:30 – 12:00pm
Venue: le Bourget (Climate Generations Space—Room 10)
Access: open access. For more information please contact: jonathan.duwyn@unep.org and patrick.blake.affiliate@unep.org
Energy Efficiency—the potential solution to 50% of the GHG emissions reductions for a 2 degree pathway
Under the SE4ALL Lighting Accelerator, the event will include the official launch of the Global Lighting Challenge (GLC), which is a race to reach cumulative global sales of 10 billion in high-efficiency, high-quality and affordable advanced lighting products, such as light-emitting diode (LED) lamps. The Challenge will showcase new commitments and actions to accelerate the transition to high-efficiency, high-quality and affordable lighting that are consistent with the Challenge’s guiding principles. Further, the event will include the launch of the UNEP-GEF en.lighten-U4E country assessments showing the large financial, environmental, and energy benefits of transition to energy efficient lighting, refrigerators, air conditioners, electric motors, and distribution transformers, which are being released for approximately 100 countries.
Date: 7 December 2015
Venue: le Bourget – Blue zone
Time: all day (starts at 10:00am) and the energy efficiency session starting at 3:00pm
Access: Restricted access