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- Publication 18 June 2021 IMPROVING THERMAL AND ELECTRIC ENERGY EFFICIENCY AT CEMENT PLANTS: INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE This report and an accompanying report on alternative fuels provide a summary of international best practice experience in the cement sector and focus on specific technical measures that could be implemented by cement plants to reduce their operating costs and improve their carbon footprints. The reports provide a plethora of practical information from implemented projects and include detailed technical descriptions, capital and operating costs, and case studies and references from locations…
- Publication 18 June 2021 Creating Markets for Climate Business An IFC Climate Investment Opportunities Report (2017) Climate change presents us with perhaps our biggest challenge. In recent years, we have seen growing evidence of the effects of climate change. Greenhouse-gas pollution continues to build up in the atmosphere, causing more intense storms, floods, droughts, and heat waves. In recent years, we have seen growing certainty and evidence of climate change impacts, with supply chains disrupted, increased commodity price volatility, and severe impacts on communities. The World Bank Group’s Turn Down…
- Publication 18 June 2021 G20 Energy Efficiency Investment Toolkit The G20 represents 84% of the world’s total economic output, more than 80% of primary energy consumption and 80% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. G20 countries recognise that both energy efficiency and increased energy productivity are critical to boost sustainable economic growth in an increasingly resource constrained planet. Energy efficiency investments deliver multiple private and public benefits and can be scaled-up significantly to decarbonise economies and deliver these multiple…
- Publication 18 June 2021 Promoting Energy efficiency in buildings: Lessons Learned from International Experience (2009) The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that residential, commercial, and public buildings account for 30 to 40 percent of the world’s energy consumption. The sector’s contribution to current world CO2 emissions is estimated by various sources at 25 to 35 percent. Rapidly growing, especially in developing countries, the building sector offers the largest, most cost-effective opportunities for energy efficiency, with considerable co-benefits. However, to turn these opportunities into…
- Publication 18 June 2021 BEST POLICY PRACTICES FOR PROMOTING ENERGY EFFICIENCY Today, any answers to the question ‘what should we do to improve energy efficiency?’ will have to advance beyond the notion of simply ‘saving energy’ to an enhanced paradigm of policy options prompted by: the United Nations Secretary General’s call to ‘double the global rate of energy efficiency improvement by 2030’ in order to advance economic and social development and address global climate challenges; a growing recognition that policies are most successful when they stimulate private…
- Publication 18 June 2021 DISTRICT ENERGY IN CITIES Unlocking the Potential of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Cities have a central role to play in the transition to sustainable energy: as managers of interdependent services and utilities, they are uniquely placed to enable the integrated solutions necessary to rapidly advance both energy efficiency and renewable energy. One such integrated solution is the development of modern district energy systems. Moving to sustainable energy is critical if the world is to achieve its sustainable development goals: from eradicating poverty and social inequality,…
- Publication 18 June 2021 CONSERVATION FIRST! A NEW ESCO MODEL TO COMBINE ENERGY EFFICENCY AND RENEWABLE SUPPLY “Any renewable supply should first of all focus on energy conservation by evaluating all possible demand reduction opportunities. Only afterwards the remaining demand is supplied as efficiently as possible – preferably from renewables. Otherwise climate protection goals are not achievable.” [Bleyl 2009] A good example for this thesis is the reduction of all electrical and thermal cooling loads including solar shading options before assessing and implementing an air conditioning unit. The…
- Publication 18 June 2021 ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND THE FINANCE SECTOR (2009) This survey was carried out in 2008, when high and volatile oil prices, steadily rising demand for energy, and global imperatives, such as climate change, created significant renewed attention to energy efficiency – both in the policy and commercial world. UNEP Finance Initiative sought to provide an evidence base on current lending activities in the energy efficiency space, as well as views on this issue through a survey among financiers. Identifying market activity and where market failure is…