• Policy

        • Netherlands

        • 1993

        Environmental Protection Act or Environmental Management Act (Wm)

        … A.o. it obliges companies that consume in excess of 50 000 kWh of energy or more than 25 000 m3 of gas to adopt energy saving measures with a payback time of 5 years or less. This obligation also applies to all non-residential buildings, such as offices, healthcare institutions, shops and schools. The competent authority – mostly the local municipality – can enforce compliance. As a result of the Agreement on Energy for sustainable growth, enforcement procedures for companies participating in long term agreements on energy efficiency (MJA3 and MEE) have been changed to strengthen the implementation. A set of…

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        • Spain

        • 2017

        9/2017 Public Sector Contracts Law

        …ensure that the design of award criteria allows high quality works, supplies and services to be obtained, in particular by including qualitative, environmental, social and innovative aspects linked to the object of the contract". The whole text is embedded in these references to environmental criteria, which include energy efficiency.

         

        For example, in Article 145 “Conditions and classes of contract award criteria”, the environmental criteria are specified, inter alia, in: the reduction in the level of greenhouse gas emissions; the use of energy saving and efficiency measures and the use of energy from renewable sources during the implementation of the contract.

        • Policy

        • Hong Kong (China)

        • 2020

        Green Tech Fund (GTF)

        The Government has set up a Green Tech Fund (GTF) in 2020 to fund research and development (R&D) projects that can help Hong Kong decarbonize and enhance environmental protection. A total of $400 million has been allocated to the GTF.Priority will be given to projects in four areas: Net-zero Electricity Generation, Energy Saving and Green Buildings, Green Transport, and Waste Reduction.  The fund is granted on a project basis considering the time cycles of the projects. Company Applicants can receive $20 million on a matching basis while for non-company applicants, the maximum funding amount for…

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        • Uzbekistan

        • 2019

        Strategy for the Transition to a Green Economy for the 2019-2030 Period - Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PP-4477

        …The development of economic measures and instruments, including the introduction of fees to reduce greenhouse gas emissions;The development and introduction of mandatory requirements for energy efficiency. On the control of energy efficiency (Art. 18 in Strategy): The development of targets for energy saving and energy efficiency and the implementation of a monitoring, verification and performance reporting system;Energy management and audit of energy-intensive enterprises. With regards to capacity building and creating an enabling environment for the transition to a green economy (Art. 20 in Strategy): The creation of a monitoring, reporting and verification system on greenhouse gas emissions…

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        • United Kingdom

        • 2021

        Government funding for electric trucks and hydrogen-powered buses

        …the following:   - GBP 31.9 million to develop electric propulsion systems for heavy goods' vehicles in Cwmbran, Wales. This technology could be applied in a range of ways, such as giving trucks greater travel range and better energy efficiency for coaches and construction vehicles;  - GBP 11.3 million to develop and manufacture energy-saving technology from motorsport for use in cars and vans from a center in Warwickshire;  - GBP 11.2 million to develop and manufacture low-cost hydrogen fuel cell technology for buses and create a hydrogen center of excellence with Wrightbus in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

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        • Denmark

        • 2022

        Funding to promote green heating and phasing down the use of natural gas

        …in 2022 to promote green heating and phasing down the use of natural gas in Denmark, reducing reliance on Russian gas in the process. This includes:Expanding the 'disconnection scheme', which covers the cost of disconnecting households from gas boilers in favour of heat pumps.Energy saving activities, such as expanding the Boliganalysen scheme and SparEnergi.dk website to help municipalities present energy saving advice or clean heating conversion information.Municipal action for the roll-out of district heating, such as support for planning, project approvals and cooperation with district heating companies, as well as the development of small-scale…

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        • People's Republic of China

        • 2012

        China’s clean cooking projects

        …research, standard setting, pilot demonstrations, and industrial development. By the end of 2013, 150 million rural families and 500 million people benefitted from reforms, such as the provision of 123 million firewood and coal-saving stoves of various types, more than 31 million energy-saving stoves, and more than 19 million energy-saving stores. According to the Clean Cooking Alliance, which China joined in 2012, around 700 million people in China still depend on solid fuels like coal and biomass for cooking and heating. In 2014, China committed to providing 40 million clean stoves to households across China by 2020…

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        • Kyrgyzstan

        • 2018

        Green Economy Concept

        In 2018, the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic (Jogorku Kenesh) adopted the Concept “Kyrgyzstan is a country of the green economy”. The concept serves as a roadmap towards an inclusive, green economy, and lays foundations for actions in various sectors, including the following priority sectors:


        1. Green transport in a green city

        2. Green energy and energy saving

        3. Green Agriculture

        4. Green industry

        5. Green waste recycling

        6. Public policy, green public procurement and payments for ecosystem services

        7. Conservation of biodiversity

        8. Green thinking, green upbringing, green education

        9. Green investment and sustainable financing to promote a green…

        • Policy

        • Spain

        • 2006

        Technical Building Code

        …social requirements, and shall be approved regularly. Among the various BD is the Basic Energy Saving Document, which aims to obtain a rational use of energy required for buildings, reducing their consumption to sustainable limits, and ensuring that part of this consumption comes from renewable sources of energy, thanks to their design, construction, use and maintenance characteristics. This Basic Document comprises the following sections: HE.1: Limiting energy demand (heating and air conditioning). HE.2: Efficiency of heating/air-conditioning systems. HE.3: Energy efficiency of lighting systems. HE.4: Minimum solar contribution to the hot water supply. HE.5…

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        • Germany

        • 2003

        KfW Housing Modernisation Programme II

        Funding of modernisation of residential units in building stock units up to year of construction 1948, listed buildings and buildings with a minimum of nine storeys with year of construction after 1948; upgrading with elevators of buildings with a minimum of five storeys and industrial residential property construction buildings without previous modernisation/restoration funding. Of the total lending amountabout 15 % was attributable to energy-saving measures in the period under review.

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