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This study investigates how the presence and position of energy labels in online retail environments affect consumer decisions. Conducted in four European countries, it tests label visibility on product pages, baskets, price-comparison sites, and examines whether placement near product price or in shopping baskets increases selections of energy-efficient appliances. Findings show that while exact label position often has limited effect, inclusion of labels in shopping baskets and on comparison sites significantly boosts energy-efficient choices. These insights are useful for policy design, regulation of online retail, and market surveillance to ensure energy labels have maximum impact in e-commerce.

This webinar introduces U4E’s Green Public Procurement Guidelines and Specifications for energy-efficient refrigeration appliances and air conditioners, providing policymakers and procurement agencies with practical tools to use public purchasing power to drive market demand for efficient cooling. The session explains how sustainable procurement can deliver value for money, reduce energy use and emissions, and support national climate and development goals. It also showcases case studies from India and Thailand, demonstrating how governments have applied these approaches in practice.

The Country Savings Assessments Methodology and Assumptions document explains how U4E estimates the potential savings from adopting energy-efficient lighting, refrigeration, air conditioners, motors, and transformers in developing and emerging economies. It defines three policy scenarios; Business as Usual; Minimum Ambition (using U4E’s baseline MEPS levels); and High Ambition (using the most stringent efficiency levels in the guidelines), and lays out the assumptions used for product stock growth, unit energy consumption, product lifetimes, ownership trends (linked to income, grid access, urbanization), and country-specific data. The document outlines the scenarios used for comparison, the assumptions on product stocks, efficiency levels, ownership trends, and lifetimes, and how these are translated into impacts such as reduced electricity demand, avoided CO₂ emissions, and consumer savings. The resource helps users understand how savings projections are developed and provides a basis for applying similar approaches in different contexts.

This guide explains how to design, implement, and operate effective energy-labelling programmes for cooling products. It covers label formats and rating scales, consumer testing and verification approaches, institutional arrangements for administration and enforcement, and strategies to maximize consumer uptake. Policymakers and programme managers can use the guidance to create labels that help consumers choose efficient products, incentivize manufacturers to redesign products, and accelerate market transformation toward lower energy use and lower emissions.

This initiative introduces a pay-for-use model (Cooling as a Service, CaaS) to make energy-efficient, climate-friendly air conditioning systems more accessible in the Dominican Republic. Under this model, the customer (for example hotel operators) pays for the cooling service rather than buying, operating, and maintaining the AC equipment themselves. The service provider assumes the investment, regular maintenance, operations, and monitoring. The contract is structured so that the cost to the customer is fixed over the term, helping to avoid upfront costs and reducing performance risk. This resource highlights the roles of public sector agencies, equipment providers, finance partners, and stakeholders from the tourism sector for rolling out such models. It shows how policy, regulatory settings (standards, labels), financial innovation, and demand-side engagement combine to unlock energy savings, reduce load on the electricity grid, lower emissions, and ensure cost savings for users.

The energy -efficient and climate-friendly cooling project is a national programme in Nigeria aiming to accelerate the transition to more energy-efficient air conditioners (ACs) and lower-GWP refrigerants across residential, commercial, and public buildings. It supports the government in revising Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) and labelling, strengthening monitoring, verification and enforcement practices, and embedding cooling-related actions into Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The fact sheet also lays out expected benefits by 2040; including large electricity savings (≈ 15 TWh/year), avoidance of fossil-fuel-based power plant investments, annual CO₂ emissions reductions (≈ 9.8 million tonnes), and significant savings in electricity costs, showing what gains are possible if ambitious efficiency and refrigerant targets are met. This resource helps policy makers, regulatory agencies, standards authorities, and implementers understand what specific actions can be prioritized, what impacts to expect, and how cooling efficiency links with climate commitments.

The Energy Labelling Guidance for Lighting and Appliances supports governments in developing or strengthening energy labelling programmes for lighting and appliances, drawing on more than a decade of global experience. It explains how to design effective and easy-to-understand labels, establish labelling thresholds using U4E’s three-tier efficiency model, and integrate labelling with broader regulatory or market transformation initiatives. By providing practical advice on label categories, design features, and implementation strategies, the guidance helps countries raise consumer awareness, drive demand for efficient products, and align national efforts with international best practices.

The Energy Technology Perspectives 2024 (ETP-2024) is the IEA's flagship analytical report, focusing on the evolving landscape of clean energy technology manufacturing and trade. It provides in-depth analysis based on new data, industry surveys, and bottom-up modeling approaches. The report examines the connections between energy, trade, manufacturing, and climate, offering insights into developing secure and resilient supply chains for key clean energy technologies such as solar PV, wind turbines, electric vehicles, batteries, electrolysers, and heat pumps.

This guide helps manufacturers, importers and regulatory officials ensure that products meet energy performance standards (MEPS) and energy labelling requirements. It focuses especially on air conditioners and refrigerating appliances but the principles are applicable to other equipment. The guide outlines approaches for market surveillance, testing, verification, import controls, and enforcement so that MEPS and labels deliver real energy savings. It covers what suppliers need to do, what officials should check, and how to build reliable systems of compliance to avoid non-compliant products undermining efficiency goals.