The United Nations Sustainable Energy for All: a global platform to achieve the transition to efficient appliances and equipment through standardization

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The United Nations Secretary General’s Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative calls for doubling energy efficiency by 2030. Shifting the global market to efficient appliances has been identified as a priority to achieve this.

The EU’s Ecodesign and Energy Labeling directives provide a concrete framework to encourage the use of more efficient appliances and equipment, such as lighting, air conditioners, refrigerators and electric motors or transformers to reduce global growth of energy demand, mitigate climate change and improve access to energy. Shifting the global market to efficient appliances would reduce global electricity consumption by more than 10%, saving 350 billion USD annually on consumer’s electricity bills and reducing global CO2 emissions by 1.25 billion tons per year. The European Union has proven successful in shaping its market for efficient appliances with effective policy frameworks. Technologies, effective policy frameworks and know-how exist and should be promoted at the global level through public-private partnerships and inter-governmental co-operation to allow developing countries to leapfrog to most efficient technologies.  

At the side event United Nations agencies UNEP and UNDP and their partners at CLASP, the International Copper Association and global lighting leader Philips will share international best practices in securing advanced policy frameworks at country and regional levels and discuss how a new global public-private partnership under the framework of the UN Secretary General’s SE4All initiative can make this global transition to efficient appliances happen.

Where: European Commission, Charlemagne Building, GASP room
When: Wednesday 19 February 2014, 16:30 - 18:00

Speakers:

Zitouni Ould-Dada, Head Technology Unit, United Nations Environment Programme

Harry Verhaar, Head of Global Public and Government Affairs, Philips Lighting

Steve Kukoda, Vice-President, International Copper Association

Steve Pantano, Senior Director of Global Programs, CLASP

Benoit Lebot, Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy Advisor, United Nations Development Programme

A high level rep for an additional company will be included.

To register for this side session, please contact: kornelia.guse@unep.org

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