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International Benchmarking Analysis of Air Source Heat Pump and Chiller Standards
This study provides a technical comparison of how the world’s three largest markets; China, the European Union, and the United States, define, measure, and regulate the cooling efficiency of air-source heat pumps and chillers. By mapping differences in testing procedures, performance metrics, and efficiency requirements, the analysis highlights opportunities for greater alignment and harmonization. Policymakers, regulators, and manufacturers can use the insights to strengthen national efficiency standards, support trade and compliance, and accelerate market transformation toward climate-friendly, high-efficiency cooling technologies.
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Mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions in Planning, Design, and Operation of Infrastructure in Ghana
Investigates the barriers and enablers to mainstreaming green infrastructure (GI) in the peri-urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa and identifies eight overarching categories of interconnected barriers to GI implementation. The analysis, based on surveys in drought-prone Windhoek and flood-prone Dar es Salaam, details how these barriers differ across local (household) and national governance levels.
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Manual of Financing Mechanisms and Business Models for Energy Efficiency
This manual presents a wide range of innovative financing mechanisms and business models that have enabled investments in energy efficiency in the residential, commercial, and public sectors. It covers the barriers to investment, such as high upfront costs, risk perception, limited access to finance, and split incentives, and shows how mechanisms like loans, green credit lines, subsidies, guarantee schemes, on-bill finance, ESCOs, and public-private partnerships are used globally to overcome those challenges. For someone designing or implementing policy, this document provides examples, structuring principles, and approaches to adapt mechanisms to local conditions. It helps you understand what financing and business models are likely to work in your context, how to pair them with regulatory tools like MEPS and labels, and how they can unlock private investment.
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Market Surveillance for Air Conditioners: Voluntary Guidelines for ASEAN Member States
The Market Surveillance for Air Conditioners: Voluntary Guidelines for ASEAN Member States provide practical guidance for governments and compliance authorities on how to design, implement, revise, and strengthen national market surveillance programmes. These guidelines help ensure that air conditioners placed on the market meet energy performance and labelling requirements, safeguard consumer trust, and support policy objectives related to energy efficiency and climate change mitigation. By outlining best practices, the guidelines enable ASEAN countries to improve compliance monitoring, prevent the circulation of inefficient products, and foster regional harmonization of energy efficiency policies.
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Mepsy: Appliance & Equipment Climate Impact Calculator
Mepsy is CLASP’s digital tool for modeling the energy, emission, and cost impacts of different policy assumptions for appliances and equipment. It is pre-loaded with data for over 160 countries, enabling users to simulate policy scenarios through 2060. Users can select countries, set policy timelines, and adjust assumptions to see the projected outcomes of efficiency measures, helping them make informed decisions, track progress, and design targeted strategies to drive appliance markets toward higher efficiency.
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Model Quality and Performance Guidelines for Off-Grid Refrigerating Appliances
These Model Quality and Performance Guidelines for Off-Grid Refrigerating Appliances provide voluntary guidance intended to inform market transformation efforts in developing and emerging economies that support the adoption of new off-grid refrigerating appliances with recommended parameters for quality assurance, energy efficiency, and use of refrigerants and foam-blowing agents with a lower global warming potential (GWP) than typical legacy refrigerants. The guidance covers refrigerating appliances commonly used in residential and light commercial applications (not including walk-in cold rooms) in off-grid locations.
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Model Regulation Guidelines for Climate-Friendly and Energy-Efficient Refrigerators
The Model Regulation Guidelines for Climate-Friendly and Energy-Efficient Refrigerators help governments, especially in developing and emerging economies, design or update regulatory frameworks requiring new refrigerators to be both energy-efficient and climate-friendly, by setting Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) and encouraging lower-GWP refrigerants while banning imports of used models. The guidelines target residential and light commercial appliances and are paired with supporting information that explains the policy rationale, methodological underpinnings, and global context of expanding refrigerator ownership while managing energy and environmental impact.
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Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Commercial Refrigeration Equipment
These Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Commercial Refrigeration Equipment that complement U4E’s Model Regulation Guidelines for Refrigerating Appliances provide guidance for assisting developing and emerging economy governments that are considering a voluntary, regulatory or legislative framework requiring new refrigeration equipment to be energy efficient and to use refrigerants that have lower global warming potential compared with typical legacy refrigerants. They cover the types of refrigeration equipment commonly used in commercial applications.
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Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Ceiling Fans
The Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Ceiling Fans provide governments, particularly in developing and emerging economies, with a template to develop or update Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) for ceiling fans, ensuring that only efficient models enter the market. It sets out recommended efficiency levels, testing methods, and policy options that can be applied in either voluntary or mandatory frameworks. By supporting the adoption of higher performance products, the guideline helps reduce electricity demand, cut emissions, and align national regulations with international best practices, complemented by case studies that show how similar measures have been implemented elsewhere.
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Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Ceiling Fans (Webinar)
This webinar introduces the Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Ceiling Fans developed by U4E. It explains how governments, particularly in developing and emerging economies, can adopt or update Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) and complementary policies to improve ceiling fan efficiency. The session outlines recommended efficiency levels, testing methods, and regulatory options, and provides practical insights into how these guidelines can be implemented in national contexts. By focusing on knowledge sharing, the webinar helps policymakers and industry stakeholders understand the potential energy, cost, and emissions savings from accelerating market transformation toward efficient ceiling fans.