New hub launched to boost cooperation for energy efficiency
France, Paris: The International Energy Agency (IEA) has launched a platform through which 16 governments will share best practices to achieve energy efficiency.
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France, Paris: The International Energy Agency (IEA) has launched a platform through which 16 governments will share best practices to achieve energy efficiency.
The Energy Efficiency Hub – a global platform for collaboration aimed at delivering the social, economic and environmental benefits of more efficient use of energy – was launched last week at an event hosted at the International Energy Agency in Paris.
The hub’s initial 16 members are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, the European Commission, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The hub aims to facilitate government-to-government exchanges on efficiency policy, regulation and implementation, focusing on topics relevant to real-world challenges faced by its members. The launch event showcased digitalisation, efficient equipment and appliance deployment, best technologies for the efficient use of energy and energy management best practices as areas of collaboration.
“Hub members span the globe, from east to west and from north to south, together accounting for over 60 % of energy use and carbon dioxide emissions,” said Ulrich Benterbusch, Deputy Director General of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy. He will serve as Chair of the Hub’s Steering Committee.
“In fact, each member has significant accomplishments in energy efficiency and understands how urgent it is to work together on it,” Benterbusch added. “Meeting global challenges requires all countries to do better, and – working in concert with other international organisations – the hub will strive to share its work more broadly and to learn from others.”
The hub’s launch follows the previous week’s release of the IEA’s Energy Efficiency 2021. This is the IEA’s annual market report on the subject. It showed that while improvements to how the world enacts the more efficient use of energy globally are recovering to their pre-pandemic pace, they are still far short of what is needed to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
Source: ESI Africa
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