• Tools 25 July 2025 World’s Best MEPS: Tracking Leaders in Appliance Energy Efficiency Standards The World’s Best MEPS Toolkit by CLASP is a comprehensive benchmarking tool designed to evaluate and compare the stringency of Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) for six high-impact appliance categories: lighting, air conditioners, refrigerators, electric motors, water heaters, and space heating equipment. It assesses MEPS across ten of the world’s highest carbon-emitting economies—such as the U.S., China, the EU, and India—against international best practices and…
• Webinar & E-Learning 28 April 2017 Standards to Achieve City Sustainability (Webinar) - 26/27.04.2017 This BEA webinar engages participants on how to use tools and standards to improve city sustainability. Participants learn about how to create a greenhouse gas inventory to benchmark and track city emissions reductions with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for Cities, how to estimate the potential emissions from city projects and policies with the GHG Protocol Policy and Action Standard, and how to set ambitious targets for cities with the Mitigation Goal Standard. The webinar…
• Tools 28 November 2016 Draft Legislative Text: Benchmarking Commercial and Institutional Buildings Draft legislative text regarding bench-marking commercial and institutional buildings, can be used as a reference.
• Tools 19 August 2016 Benchmarking and Energy Saving Tool for Low Carbon Cities (BEST) The tool is designed to provide city authorities with strategies they can follow to reduce city-wide carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions. The tool quickly assesses local energy use and energy-related CO2 and CH4 emissions across nine sectors (i.e., industry, public and commercial buildings, residential buildings, transportation, power and heat, street lighting, water & wastewater, solid waste, and urban green space), giving officials a comprehensive perspective on their local…